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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Ski gear for winter riding

lankydoug

lankydoug

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In the past when March is coming to an end that's when I would shop winter gear for the following season. I've bought a $200 Agile ski coat for $60 and ski pants for $25 with zipper vents, extra pockets and just about every gizmo a coat could have. I figured I would have a cheap coat to wear while cutting firewood and work in the grime crawling around machinery.

This year my plan is to scan the same shopping malls but buy one a size bigger so that it will fit over protective gear.

Has anyone else used this strategy?
 
I used to play paintball. The Jerseys and pants are literally the same stuff as offroad gear. I think the paintball jerseys are slightly even nicer than the nicest Klim stuff actually. I buy the 1 or 2 yr old close out stuff. So a $90 jersey I just picked up for $10. I just picked up pants for $40. They where $149 new. Also another good place to look for knee pads, gloves etc are the close out bicycle stores. Killer deals to be had and essentially same gear.
 
I usually use my ski jacket and gloves for cold weather riding. They work fine for me but I don't really ride much in the winter.
 
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