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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
I went through the options and none are very elegant on this bike. Decided its just not a tourer and if you simply travel with a well thought out tool kit and an extra layer plus water, not bad. I ride a mtb with as much. Consider the pounding the bike will do over rocky terrain.. I didn't want to consider mounts and stuff that was likely to break in time. Go light with just what's absloutely necesary. A pack can be added back protection in a fall if used with a water bladder or/and extra layers. Carry the heavier items low in the pack. I did buy a fender bag for an extra tube and pair of irons. Have not used it but it is low profile and could be carried on the tail with minor mods to secure if not wanting to risk it coming loose on the front.
A guy locally makes a textile piece that goes across the seat and has loops on each side to hold extra fuel bottles. You sit on the piece that goes across the seat to hold in in place and can protect the bottles with foam wraps. I'm definitely getting this to supplement the paltry fuel capacity. I can't see spending the time and $ on a tank that's only slightly bigger. I'll post pics when I get it.
