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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Norman Foley;13237 said:coffee,
Feel free to move this to Newsroom, my mistake.
Norman
We have a mandate from them to reestablish the brand in the U.S., and we have a three-to-five year plan to do that.
Coffee;13241 said:Good idea.... (edit - either you started this thread in the newsroom or our fine moderator moved it)
Great article, I liked this quote the best:
Regarding threads on CH in general - If there are similar threads on CH I would appreciate it tremendously is someone posts links from one to the other. Thought I saw a few that might be similar, not a big deal at all but would hate to loose track of peoples input - that input is important.
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WoodsChick;13303 said:Uh...that would be me
I can merge those other posts if it'll make things easier...
FineModeratorChick
Coffee;13309 said:Thanks!
Merge whatever threads you want that make sense, the idea is to keep track of everyone's valuable input.
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Dirtdame;13675 said:For a little shorty person like myself, the e-start would be a welcome addition to any bike that I might stall in a pile of rocks on a steep, off-camber hillside.
SightedN2;13644 said:sorry, I have an opinion, I should just ride what you like.
ktm hardly sold any of them, huh?
crb345;13680 said:I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings but this is a forum to vent your opinions. I do not think my comments in any way disrespected your opinions so please do not disrespect mine with your snide comment. If you have a rebuttle then post a reason e-start would be useful like the previous posts by other people.
The e-start would be useful for shorter folk who might have a hard time in technical terrain. But for me who is 6'1" and money concious the kicker is good enough.