• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Evel or Easy Rider

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Got a couple different looks going here ... Stars say Evel and the chopper look says Easy Rider...

I'll see if I can get a few more pics of this one .. Rake might be moved or just the camera angle ... Looks like drums front and back and a front fender for matching the rear?

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Might be a honda or might not be a honda. I need a street bike and have another 250cc honda engine ... The one with 3 low and 3 high gears ...
 
whats with the flag? why have something like that? is it supposed to look like an american one? why the weak attempt?
 
The purple wheels really say easy rider...like whoa man, that was some heavy weed...let's do the red white n blue on the tank and side panels. Ahhh man were outta blue maaannn. Oh, hey. I got this purple though.
 
That purple color is stretching it for me, even now after all the time here ... These guys just are not as color sensitive as westerners and budget restraints are hard lines drawn. That line shows up often.

Not sure on that flag ... might be a decal and not a paint job ....

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I've seen a couple other chopper looking bikes here that I'm not sure you guys are ready to see... You can tell the owner did not have a ~budget but still managed to get a 1-0ff bike made his way.
 
If the price is right it's nothing some new paint can't fix?

I rode anything I didn't care. I could hear people laugh at me but I was the one having fun riding.
 
Boy that's a custom frame neck job their ray_ray. When you first mentioned "drums" (before I read brakes front and rear).
I thought you were going to say that frame rake job was made out of a scrap from a 55 gallon "Drum" or steel barrel?

Nice!
 
It was big brake drums I was referring to ... The one on front does not look too large in diameter but some I've seen here look like very heavy in weight ...

Don't think these guys are afraid of frame work ... I've seen a few others here that have a strange cool look and you can see the guys who built it had limited supplies but somehow made it work ... It's like we want a bike and have an idea ... What's around here we can use?
 
I was just kidding you ray_ray.

By the way I think the swing arm is pretty slick.

Not knocking the supply line of materials either. Great places like where you are fortunate to visit, let alone live, that's where some of the most tenacious and innovative things come out of with very limited resources. Its something I truly respect and actually appreciate.

It's something I see daily at work.

Remember what I do for a living? In the last 9 years, I have seen some of the most innovative metal work (actually taking apart things, rather than building things but that too. But when you can cut a hole big enough for a drug filled vehicle (drivethru) done with nothing more than a hack saw and a hammer & a chisel, and maybe a prybar) on sections of fence that costs the US/DHS more than $4.2 million a mile and its 6"x 6"x 1/4" thick square bollard tubes are over 20 ft. tall and filled with rebar and concrete. This type of "Pedestrian fence" as its called goes for several hundred miles all together where it like this in its most important areas. These areas are closest to the towns and US ports of entry and more new fence being built and the old fence being replaced all the time. To think nobody ( BP Agents) ever sees this or ever hears this being cut even. Which must have taken days to do. These guys from across the line are slick let me tell you.

As I have said many times to my employers. "If you build a 50 ft. tall fence and you think that would do the job. Someone in Mexico with a 110 amp welder or just a hammer and some nails is building a 51 ft. ladder made out of left over wrought iron window bars thrown out somewhere, or even old lumber and has the "Cahones" enough to still climb over it".

Others cut the fence itself. With a minimal amount of tools, usually left behind. That I get to keep when I find them. These are the pros. I recognize their work quite often so I know when to look and where to look for those tools.. Got lots of em'

In about 1976 or 77 My Dad while he was still teaching shop up in Oakland Ca, was given cases of "Flecto Varathane" paint in the color "Proper Purple" seriously I mean cases and cases of it, that I guess wouldn't sell in the stores even in Oakland CA. He gave some to his brother My Uncle Walt who lived in Phoenix. he had an old like 56 willy's pick up for tooling around out in the desert when there still was some up in that area back in the late 70's. My now deceased brother Gary took body shop when he lived up in the bay area where we grew up at but was kicked out of school so was sent to go live with my Uncle Walt. Well Gary got to learn how to drive in that old Willys pick up and one day when my Uncle got home from work it was a bright "Proper Purple Flecto Varathane. Small dents and all. Gary offered to do the body work for my Uncle for something to do as he was bored out of his mind living there with nothing to do and no friends to speak of. they never talked about an actual paint job. So when Gary did that. He got to come back to the Bay Area soon after that but the truck actually looked a bit better. My Uncle didn't apparently think so.

My Brother was ran over by a car that was speeding standing on the sidewalk as a pedestrian, the car lost control and wrecked right in front of him the same evening of the day he came back home to the Bay Area and was subsequently killed. I was on the other side of the street and watched this happen. My Girlfriend was standing right next to him and was severely injured herself but lived.
 
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