Shineray, SWM... What the heck is going on here...
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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
WTH? SWM is making bikes with old husky platforms?
- Thread starter Motosportz
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ha ha... no. Although I do have fond memories as a kid looking at new SWMs in the local enduro shop. They were awesome and exotic. I bet those guys were tired of me looking at the bikes every day. They were like this...
Norman Foley
Husqvarna
Pro Class
It's possible, that Shineray doesn't have the rights to use the name, according to one of the founding partners of SWM. Similar thing happened with Sherco... They were going to be the new Bultaco, until the person who owned the rights to the name stepped up.
