• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

Who likes to ride in the nasty winter weather?

Do you like to ride in the rain and snow?

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I dont mind riding in fresh snow or light rain (off road), on the hwy it's a different story. The only thing that is a real deal killer for me is high winds, I think wind has ruined more events in my life than any other kind of weather.
 
I won't go out for a ride on purpose if it's super nasty, it's just not fun. However, if it's drizzly, or there are a few inches of snow, I will absolutely go ride.

And, if it's a race day, all bets are off. I rode this race in the spring this year, rained all week and the day of the race. I have never seen trenches this deep in my life (not my video):

 
Once we get snow on the mountains its usually too deep to ride in. I've done it a couple of times and its fun when its not too deep to get through. Love riding when there's no dust!
 
About to suit up for a ride with some locals....5 degrees celcius and wind chill should make the ride out TO trails feel like negative 5...First year with bike and have it blue plated so when the weather beckons...I'll be venturing out to test my cold tolerance and the bikes ability to grip. There's a pretty solid ice racing group here in the winter...will keep my hours on this engine to the warmer temps though...now if I won the lottery...a new bike equipped with proper studs would be in the cards ;)
 
Being a SoCal boy it's an absolute novelty to ride in a snow-storm but I've had the chance a couple of times. What I can't figure out is how you stay upright in the single-track when you can't see the ruts! I've never been so exhausted from fighting the bike (and gravity):eek:
 
I will ride all year long if I can. If I'm out riding and it rains then so be it I'll just ride and suck it up. Freezing weather makes the ground solid and it sucks when you dump your bike, but I still ride. If there is snow and it's too deep for one of my bikes, I'll take one of my quads out and let the games begin. It's a lot of fun and I try and make it a wild ride and just go bonkers. To me it's like snowmobiling on four wheels.:D
 
I can (and did) ride in the snow from time to time but overall, nope, I'm not a cold weather rider ... I moved to a island in the pacific to ride every day in warmer weather and all the other side effects it has ... Wanna stop working and ride in the dirt everyday? Make sure you have money for lots of knobbies ...

PS -- The rain here is warm so riding in it is no big deal on most days ..
 
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