• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

Grandsons crash

Bigbill

Bigbill

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My grandson hit a tree with his suzuki jr50. Both forks are bent inward. I may try to straighten them on my hydraulic pipe bender. What do you think? He's ok just shakened up, but hope he has some respect for the bike now.
 
Glad the kid is okay. It depends on how bent the forks got. If less than 10 degrees, probably okay. Once they get bent too far, you will see some creases or wrinkles in the chrome when you straighten them. That means they got bent too far to straighten properly. I use a hydralic press and aluminum u blocks, then check the runout with a dial indicator.
 
Check the breakers for a set of forks, hope he hasn't got too much respect for the thing now that's how you make slow riders!!
Glad he's ok tho.
Get the thing back up and running ASAP
Try straightening but if they bind then he may well end up in the same place.
 
Just get on eBay and get a good used set.....i don't mess with anything that could cause a crash...probably 70$ on ebay....to me anytime you straighten something...it is weaker...
 
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