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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
This bike was a 1973 DKW RT159 Super(AKA The Little Wonder). It sported a gigantic chrome gas tank with a rootbeer colored area across the top. The exhaust was chrome, so were the fenders, wheels and bars. I don't remember what the dry weight was supposed to be, probably scary plenty. It seemed to have almost more chrome than a Harley Davidson. It also sported a 125 cc Sachs engine that had a six speed tranny (with about seven neutralsXcuvator;41221 said:
) and a 26 mm Bing carb. Boge shocks adorned each end of the machine, and the front ones which were 16 inches long, rode on a swingarm member supported by needle bearings. This leading link arrangement caused the front end to extend rather than collapse under breaking pressure. Made for some interesting braking techniques when entering a corner that had stutter bumps. There was a steering damper too...chrome of course. I rode the machine for a couple of years in motocross. During that time, it lost it's big tank for a little fiberglass one (designed to fit a Husqvarna), got a Torque down pipe, plastic fenders (remember Preston Petty), DID rims and different handlebars. Later, all the stock stuff (except the rims) went back on it and I added lights, mirror and street licensing. A few years later, I sold it, but I wish I hadn't....along with the 125 Maico, the 360 Bultaco Frontera and just more recently the KDX200 that I kept for the last 21 years.
Coffee;41215 said:Are those your vids? It almost looks like you could have been in the first one.
Very nice! Thanks for sharing.
Super cool.
