oldbikedude
Husqvarna
Pro Class
What could he say if we all just showed up?.....lol ....I call the 390...lol
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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
How about Darin for Husky bike builder of the year
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Husqvarna
dartyppyt
Husqvarna
Pro Class
You guys are cracking me up!
Just want to thank everyone for the nice comments and support!
It sure would be neat to have all of us meet somewhere and have some riding fun.
Would like to go ride the Hatfield and McCoy trails down in West Virginia. It's on my bucket list.
That would be neat to all meet and ride somewhere!
Yes, I would like to get these done overnight but there is quite the task at hand doing 6 at a time. Everything is X 6. Expense and labor. I am not a Rockefeller either. Just normal guy that makes enough to get by on, like most. So we go one step at a time.
I also work about 50-60 hours week, put 70,000 miles a year on my work truck, plus have to keep up with 9 horses and still race some Harescrambles/ trail ride. I try to get as much done on bikes, as much, as possible. But a lot of times, I just plain flat out, run out of steam.
I am lil slower because I do not have a metal lathe, milling machine and tons of other stuff. So I do send stuff out to a friend to machine.
I only have a drill press, tig welder, mig welder, press, paint equipment and blast cabinet. The rest are hand tools, air grinders, files, body hammers, etc.... I still cut things free hand and shape stuff with hammers,grinders and hand files. But that was how I was taught. I make templates from masking tape, draw freehand and transfer them on to metal. The rest is forming the metal and welding it. I want these perfect like they rolled off the showroom floor. I'm doing these, so they last for another 30 years. I also want to bring forward, some creative ideas that you guys can use on your own.
So please, if you like something, feel free to copy it. Heck, I use all your postings as a resource to help me and be creative.
I'm a guy that won't drive around an hour lost, when you can ask someone for directions. Well, unless wife is with me! That drives them nuts!
Now, going to ask you guys for help! I had an interesting conversation yesterday with someone and guess this 83 is attracting some attention. Now whether that pans out or not, we shall see? Maybe, should of just let well enough alone?
Once things start coming together. We need to look at the whole picture. If that means, nah, don't like the front fender then we will change it out for something else. If we have to change out the logos on bottom of fork legs, then we will. If I have to go back and polish the engine guards, I will. Let me get little further ahead to see the whole, shall I say, scheme of things. That's where your help, positive or negative is going to come in. But we need to make sure this Husky is one bad puppy!
Thanx guys!
Just want to thank everyone for the nice comments and support!
It sure would be neat to have all of us meet somewhere and have some riding fun.
Would like to go ride the Hatfield and McCoy trails down in West Virginia. It's on my bucket list.
That would be neat to all meet and ride somewhere!
Yes, I would like to get these done overnight but there is quite the task at hand doing 6 at a time. Everything is X 6. Expense and labor. I am not a Rockefeller either. Just normal guy that makes enough to get by on, like most. So we go one step at a time.
I also work about 50-60 hours week, put 70,000 miles a year on my work truck, plus have to keep up with 9 horses and still race some Harescrambles/ trail ride. I try to get as much done on bikes, as much, as possible. But a lot of times, I just plain flat out, run out of steam.
I am lil slower because I do not have a metal lathe, milling machine and tons of other stuff. So I do send stuff out to a friend to machine.
I only have a drill press, tig welder, mig welder, press, paint equipment and blast cabinet. The rest are hand tools, air grinders, files, body hammers, etc.... I still cut things free hand and shape stuff with hammers,grinders and hand files. But that was how I was taught. I make templates from masking tape, draw freehand and transfer them on to metal. The rest is forming the metal and welding it. I want these perfect like they rolled off the showroom floor. I'm doing these, so they last for another 30 years. I also want to bring forward, some creative ideas that you guys can use on your own.
So please, if you like something, feel free to copy it. Heck, I use all your postings as a resource to help me and be creative.
I'm a guy that won't drive around an hour lost, when you can ask someone for directions. Well, unless wife is with me! That drives them nuts!
Now, going to ask you guys for help! I had an interesting conversation yesterday with someone and guess this 83 is attracting some attention. Now whether that pans out or not, we shall see? Maybe, should of just let well enough alone?
Once things start coming together. We need to look at the whole picture. If that means, nah, don't like the front fender then we will change it out for something else. If we have to change out the logos on bottom of fork legs, then we will. If I have to go back and polish the engine guards, I will. Let me get little further ahead to see the whole, shall I say, scheme of things. That's where your help, positive or negative is going to come in. But we need to make sure this Husky is one bad puppy!
Thanx guys!
oldbikedude
Husqvarna
Pro Class
I have no doubt they will all be BAD! (in a good way)....lol I think the 83 will be awe-seous (awesome & righteous)
