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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Husky Press and Demo Ride for the new 2012 Bikes
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We asked for it, Husky NA delivered. I think it is a brilliant move.
ray_ray
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Yes and it needs to be advertised to its' target riders ...
jmetteer
Husqvarna
Pro Class
I read somewhere that they just bought some advertising space in Short and Proud magazine...
Later,
Slowpoke
Husqvarna
AA Class
+1
Lots of shorter folks out there & it truly is an underserved market- especially for a modern street legal dirt worthy bike. They've always been faced with either accepting substandard Jap trail bikes, paying hundreds of dollars to have a bike lowered, or buying the really expensive Service Honda 'JRs'.
When Scott was still around, I had suggested to him via email, that Husky look at taking advantage of the small physical size of the X-light engine and build a smaller framed bike for the shorter folks out there- ie similar to the 100cc KX's and KTMs. This is just a more cost effective way of doing that from a manufacturing standpoint.
Interesting... I had hoped for a different frame, perhaps if the sales numbers are high enough? Valerie Wilson from TT and I had the same request earlier this year at Randsburg...
Which reminds me, what other press were there? I haven't seen Karl Kramer since the Quicksilver race early 2007 in Clear Creek, and even then I did not have time to say hello.
Karl has been free lancing for various publications since he left Dirt Rider. Dennis Cox has his own on-line magazine called Dirt Illustrated. There was a van covered in bright moto graphics whose crew was doing video taping. There was a handful of journalists that I didn't recognize. I had hoped to see Mark Kariya there, but he wasn't present. Gary Jones had Dennis doing some video taping for him. Larry Roeseler and Jim Gibson were also both present. It was really a rather small and relaxed gathering.Great reporting!!! Thanks for going on such late notice.
Which reminds me, what other press were there? I haven't seen Karl Kramer since the Quicksilver race early 2007 in Clear Creek, and even then I did not have time to say hello.