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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Help! Stolen TE 630

Nick Taylor

Nick Taylor

Husqvarna
AA Class
My bike has just been stolen from outside my house in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Please keep an eye out. Thanks.
 
Damn Nick, I feel your pain. Hold out hope............ I got mine back 3.5 months after it was stolen......a bit worse for wear but happy to have gotten it back.
 
Well I found it. All the wires have been ripped to shreds and my new trailtech speedo has been smashed. The thief obviously got frustrated trying to hotwire it and gave up. I had zip-tied the fairings on and I think that must have slowed him down. He dumped it right next to CCTV camera so hopefully get that tomorrow. image.jpg
 
Well, that's better than never finding it. Not sure how insurance is over there, but hopefully they'll make it right.
 
BTW, thieves and vandals will never get any sympathy from me, whatever may befall them in their endeavors. :mad:
Around here that may include but not be limited to some high speed lead therapy...
 
Ouch that sucks! Did they take the front wheel off? Hope you can get it all back together quickly.
 
I was once asked by an old butcher to weld the bolt on an old humane killer. But he died before I could give it back. At the time, pushbikes were being nicked from in front of our house at the rate of about one a week. Ultimately I got fed up with this. So I re-welded a looong shaft onto the bolt and installed it in the saddle strut of an old pushbike so that pressure on the pedal fired the bolt; through the saddle and up the thieves rear end. My then girlfriend persuaded me not to leave the bike outside. But the thought of the scum, sitting there next morning, still on the bike, leaning against a tree still warms my heart.
 
organ donor said:
I was once asked by an old butcher to weld the bolt on an old humane killer. But he died before I could give it back. At the time, pushbikes were being nicked from in front of our house at the rate of about one a week. Ultimately I got fed up with this. So I re-welded a looong shaft onto the bolt and installed it in the saddle strut of an old pushbike so that pressure on the pedal fired the bolt; through the saddle and up the thieves rear end.
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But only after welding on some barbs.
 
Glad it's recovered in what seems to be mostly be "I want it back" condition. Lots of times they're recovered and so trashed that you'd rather not have them back.
 
Nick, even with the damage, you have your baby back and wires and instruments can be replaced. Hope you can enjoy the rebuild!
 
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