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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Real white knuckle ride yesterday

B

Blackbeard

Husqvarna
B Class
Finished work early and decided to hop on the supermoto, anyways decide to ride up to big bear mountain and as soon as I reach the summit my rear wheel bearing blows out. I start getting a real bad shimmy and pull over, well the sprocket side rear bearing is shot. I decide immediately to ride it back down and back home as I had to be at school to pick my son up so I had no other choice! To put it bluntly it was butt puckering going down the mountain then on the freeway riding with the bike leaned over so all the weight was on the one good bearing. If I straightened it at all you'd hear the hub hitting the axle. But I made it home and two new bearings are on order! They are Ktm 17's so it's just generic 6005 bearings
 
Haha thanks, what was scary was the back roads were completely closed for construction and I didn't want to ride off-road with one bearing so I was forced on the freeway, the whole time I had the bike leaned as far over like I was making a sharp left but sitting on the side panel. If I kept it perfect I wouldn't hear any axle hiring hub noise while it rode on the one good one!
 
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