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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Dirtdame;68677 said:Oh well, that leaves me out.![]()
Bagman;68675 said:Let's here some stories about relatives you ride with. Son's, daughter's, wife, husband, even grandchildren. No nephews or cousins[could get rather involved]. Keep it close to home & at least one Husky needs to be involved.
johosjokers;68691 said:my 16 y.o. son and i been going to the local school parking lot(its huge) when theres no one around and run a little course around the traffic island things on the '09 smr510. he dont have a license yet, so i have to drop him off then run the bike over there. actually, i dont have one either..hahahah. but its great fun. the score so far, he's slid it across the pavement once, and me twice, now the left grip matches the right from the kick stand fall over. the bike dont look brand new any more, but the skateboard wheel sliders i made sure help, and the bike been worth every penny i paid for it.
Dirtdame;68688 said:Nope, still leaves me out.![]()
johosjokers;68694 said:Well I'm sure we can't here either
I bet she has a boyfriend, she doesn't want to hurt her image. Besides she probably has her eye out for someone on this forum.PhilM;68697 said:A gal that rides, has a KDX and husky is a keeper fer sure. The guys in your area have no idea what they are missing out on![]()
I have some grandsons a little younger than your son but they are in sports so much that I can't find time to get them riding. I ride them as passengers & they love it. Hopefully your son can balance out his activities. Having other friends with bikes should really help. That bike is bulletproof. My daughter still wishes she had hers. [Wants to keep everythingcolemanapp;68708 said:My son (12) pretty much just started riding this year. I've coached him in sports for years and always told him how much riding would be good for him. Not til I finally laid it out that when he's older, he and I won't likely have a bond through his team sports. We needed to find common ground like golf (yuk) or riding. He chose to do both this year. I've gotten a couple of his friends started riding and they just got bikes for Xmas. So he's got a riding crew together already. He's only got Husky gear so far. He's on an 86 XR 80. Love that thing.
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I have 4 girls. The key is to have a small bike around & to ride them every now & then on your own bike.All 4 of my daughters tried riding but for one reason or the other opt out except for the youngest one. One day she knocked herself out [litterally] when her bike did a headshake in 4th gear & she was riding the next day.[probably not a good idea]. That's when I knew she had the bug! You may be surprised which one might ride.Rattletrap;68711 said:I don't have any close kin that likes to ride. I have 3 girls and they might want to ride to the mall if they can sweet talk some money outta me, they know they can't get any out of momma.
I have some younger cousins that like to ride like their hairs on fire all the time. One called me Monday night and wanted to go and get the central Alabama tag (Tag O Rama) up in North Alabama about 150 miles away. We left Tuesday morning, My chargeguard on the 610 said 26 degrees and kept flashing "Ice, Ice". The tag was a train tunnel.
I did a ride report on Advrider, not sure how to transfer a link, but we had a full day and a lot of fun, he only tried to get me killed twice, so that was a good day.
Any one else involved in the Tag O Rama in their state?
Bagman;68768 said:I bet she has a boyfriend, she doesn't want to hurt her image. Besides she probably has her eye out for someone on this forum.Just kidding DirtDame, your personal life is your own business
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Dirtdame;68779 said:Nope, I don't presently have a boyfriend....or even a personal life, for that matter, just my motorcycles.