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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

NETRA Mud Slinger Enduro 2013 (did anyone do it?)

robertaccio

robertaccio

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Berkshire Trail Riders/NETRA Mudslinger Enduro, "Toughest Enduro in the East"

report!! Its one of the best, we need a report!!
 
Trail Rider magazine owner Kevin put together a 2 minute video of this year’s event;

View: http://vimeo.com/72200467


The video captures it pretty well. I was on row 8 and rode it on a 2012 WR 144 with FC suspension set up for New England conditions. I had a blast riding it on the little Husky. It always rains a day or 2 before the Mudslinger and this kept the mountains, rocks and roots nice and slick. There is an infamous section called the ledges that is shown right at the end of the video. The entire field went down the ledges around mile 10 or so, and then the A/B’s went back up it around mile 90. At that point, everyone is completely exhausted from 90 miles of pounding and it’s an entertaining disaster to try and get up them. It's one of those obstacles that you know is coming up because you can hear bikes screaming and when you get to the bottom of the hill, camera flashes start going off.

Overall the ride was very tough but finishable this year and not set up like the “Hell in the Hills” from 2012 where the majority of the field houred out. The club is also putting on the “Granville Cheddar Cheese” enduro on 10/20 and that should be just a fun.
 
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