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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

OCD, Pee, Average Joe-Racer, and the Shotgun Hare Scramble

K5PL5

K5PL5

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Well every racer knows...or should know that if you want to avoid DNFs there are certain things you should do to your bike in order to prepare it for an enduro/hare scramble.
I have to admit that I get a little "OCD" when it comes to bike maintenance. That being said, I should have known better than to torque my front brake and clutch lever perches on the handlebars. I got caught up behind some slower guys in slimey baby head-rock section and dropped the bike over. My handguard got pushed in and locked my clutch lever halfway in.
After spending the majority of my first lap contemplating whether to stop and find a spot in the woods or just p!$$ my pants, I got an opportunity once I jammed the clutch lever. Took care of business and then proceeded to locate a "forest hammer".. a rock.. and pounded the handguard away from the lever. I lost a good 2 and a half minutes due to this stupid mistake. Coming across the timing booth i was in 10th! Next lap 7th, last lap 4th. I'm stoked on my finish but man it probably could have been better. Otherwise, my WR300 is awesome. I still love the thing. Lowering the bike has been such a big help too
Dont torque those levers down!!
 
A couple wraps of Teflon tape around the bars and snug the clamps enough that you can rotate your perches by hand, just don't keep them too loose
 
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