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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
brock;12912 said:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ijH4wnWApvA
This is one of our events with more open going but still it has a fair share of tight single track.
Here's a photo (hopefully) of this years D2D event, it rained all day. Its me on my WR250 by the way.
12hrs, 35th out of 217 finishers as a two man team.
. Where you from Brock?
. It's the rider most all the way. I do things like that regularly. Lose a little nerve and/or comitment in a dificult section and stall out or balance the wrong way and you just tip over. The advantage of the smaller bike like the TE250/310 over the 510 is that it is a lot less difficult to handle when you get bent out of shape. But the added torque of a larger engine makes it harder to stall and you have to worry less about the cluch and keeping the rev's up on the nasty uphills and can concentrate on your line and keeping your momentum up. I have not ridden a 510 but spent a number of years riding narly single track on my DRZ400S, which is a real pig compared to any of the husky's/ktm's, until this last year when I got an 2006 TE250. With the TE, I picked up some speed and can actually almost keep up with the local guys I ride with in Arkansas in the rocky narly sections. They still ride much faster than me in the smoother sections. Back to the point of its the rider not the bike. One of them does ride a KTM530, but several of the others ride DRZ400's. One even rides a clapped out KLR650 occasionally. He even finished an enduro race with it a couple of years ago that was hard enough that less than 1/2 the competitors finished the race. I'll be heading down to Arkansas for 2 1/2 days of riding for new years day in a week or so to the Brock Creek riding area that some others have posted video from. This has some brock creek video. I'll be trying out the trials tires here.Jeff@TireBalls;12682 said:I ride & race my TXC 510 in all sorts of nast single track/goat path type places. I feel like its an advantage over the smaller bore bikes because you can use the torq to your advantage.
Here is my race report from a few weeks ago from the Ozark 100 Miler extreme event.
http://www.cafehusky.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1062
Here is a video clip from my ride yesterday, this section is way harder than it looks. There are very few people that I've seen clear this ledge...
http://kywoodsriders.com/files/Dec_14_2008_-_VID00005_2.wmv
And a failed orange attempt...
http://kywoodsriders.com/files/Dec_14_2008_-_VID00005_3.wmv
terryth;13533 said:hilarious, the KTM rider blaming the bike
Jeff@TireBalls;12851 said:
You want tight, you should try some mountain bike single track sometime. We did a section in CO in the Vail area a couple of years ago. 6 inches wide the entire way and quite a handful on my DRZ400S.