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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Our TS 185s in the UK were not rotary disc valved !!! Were your models different to ours? The TS100 was disc valved but the 125 and 185 were definatly not over this side of the pond.
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Got a little story about a TS 100-- Many years back I was asked if I could have a quick look at one that ran but not well at all, After going through the normal things and finding nothing amiss I pulled the pipe ect and found the exhaust port had a hole not much bigger than a pencil, Pulled it apart and cleaned all the carbon out and set off for a road test, The little TS now ran just about fine but still a little on the slow side but I just kept on thrashing the poor little thing when all of a sudden the exhaust note went silent then back to normal then silent then normal ! Looked behind to see a huge shower of burning carbon shooting from the tail pipe, This thing did this for about a hour blowing burning lumps of carbon out the rear end. Me well I couldnt stop lauging and just kept on going till the little thing finally stopped thinking it was a two wheeled volcano and rode it back home, Put it on its side stand and had a look at the pipe, The thing had turned white where it had got so hot and burnt the paint off so removed it to give it a coat of heatproof, Gave it a few good beats with a hammer and a small mountain of solid burnt carbon STILL came out. Turns out the bike had one previous carefull lady owner and had never in 6 odd years ever had a good long ride or anything like a good thrashing.
You're right, we rode and survived ... I was just thinking, even back when I had my 02 CR250 Husky, I did not wear anything but a helmet and boots ... Go back to my teenage yrs in the 70s, on my '76 CR250 Husky, and I had an open face helmet and gloves maybe and some sort of engineer boots. Maybe a long sleeve shirt? And things were always good riding the Huskies ... Funny how times have changed ... But here, like I have said, it is the 70s here. I liked the 70s and I highly doubt this place will advance to the 80s in my lifetime
Thought I was going mad (er)