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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Women's boots versus youth boots for the wifey...

dfeckel

dfeckel

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I gave wifey a lesson on a family dirtbiking day, and she didn't hate it! So now we're looking for boots. She tried some on at the local dealer, and she is a size 6 men's/youth. They didn't have any women's boots to try on. Her usual women's shoe size is 8.

My concern is with the height of the boot upper. Is a women's boot going to be taller than a youth boot with a similar size foot? The youth boot she tried seemed like it could have come up higher.
 
Youth boots are always shorter than adult boots. Women's boots usually don't seem to offer as nice construction and protection as men's boots do. Some run tall like a man's boot (Fox), other brands run a little shorter. I really loved my Fox Ladie's Comp5 boots, because they weighed practically nothing, needed no break in, and were as pliable as a pair of tall running shoes. They were more pliable than a pair of trials boots. The problem with them was that they had very little substance for technical riding, and folded up pretty easy. Impacts with boulders and logs tore them up and broke the plastic buckles, and finally one of them ripped in half (top from bottom) when my foot had a head on with a downed tree limb. I am sometimes tempted to buy another set, but then I remember that as comfortable as they are, a boot that flimsy should not cost 190 dollars!
 
My daughter went through this also, she went through a pair of ladies Fox 5s in 9 months. They were not very sturdy or protective. She went to SG10's and loved them, now she is in SG12s and loves them even more. My daughter is 5'5" and wears a 8 in Gaernes.
 
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