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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

8th Annual NE Husky Gathering 2014

9/5-6-7 is only a month away, so time to start getting ready! All the riding and bench racing you can stand, but the "Dog and Pony Show" will be pared down, this year. Joe and I are just a little too bogged down with... Work, family and racing commitments, to organize raffles, trophies and sadly T-Shirt Man is no longer with us.

The good news is.... a sweet trail loop, with some optional sections and what we always called the MX section, is now a real old school Scrambles/MX track. No jumps, but it will be nicely broken in, by the AHRMA NE Regional MX race 2 weeks before! Be prepared to blow up some berms!

So come and see Huskys of all ages and Countries Of Origin and some cool vintage bikes of all brands. Bring your own food and drinks. Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Grocery and other amenities, are just 3 miles down the road. Primitive camping and we'll have a group fire pit.

Looking forward to seeing the crew!
 
As Norm said.....we are going old schooll on this. Riding....riding...riding.....and bench racing. May even break out the 2 stroke Husky blender!
Our beloved brand is in a transitional stage that is nebulous at best but hey.....Delong is leading the Natl enduro series and Fahringer is right behind him.

Is any one gonna be broken hearted about not much dog and pony and raffle bling? I know the shirts were for us by us but hey....the dude is dead.
 
Would you like me to ask a buddy about hooking you up for shirts?...may not be a deal..but I can get some pricing for you??
 
I just wore my sound of huskies shirt to my club meeting this week and got a few compliments. I'll miss having a new shirt, but totally understand not having one this year.

Looking forward to the weekend!!
 
dfeckel said:
I just wore my sound of huskies shirt to my club meeting this week and got a few compliments. I'll miss having a new shirt, but totally understand not having one this year.

Looking forward to the weekend!!
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Love the "Mika" shirt and the "Pantheon of Husky Heroes" shirt, but the "Sound of Huskies" shirt is the all time best! Somehow in my twisted little mind, I see the whole Musical being played out.... with Huskys and KTM's. :busted:
 
Ok
Some updates to keep the faithful informed.
No ribboned grass track this year as the big ass draft horses are ther and they will win a head to head despite having only 1 horsepower! Really those SOB's are huge! How Norm holds them and shoes them is beyond me. Before I digress......We got a tractor and brushog and saws and other tools of death that "greenies" hate and brought the old .8 mile long natural MX track back to life! All natural with alot of off camber to keep your right wrist focused. Nice and flowing with some up and down hill and some epic sweepers that will leave you giggling your ass off pinning it and sweeping like a pro.

There is a woods loop too. about 5 miles and becaue MX helps you go faster the mx part is included halfway though the loop. All arrowed and ribboned and as usual, top shelf.

Something new is Ben Smith, NJ AA rider as well as multiple time ISDE medal winner and USA junior team member has offered to do a riding school on Friday the 5th. Great entry level intermediate level school. I have taken it and my very next race saw massive improvements. 6 hours long and just 100 bucks! Yeah you heard that right. Class covers all from body position to basic skills and then moves on tou build on what you just got taught. hills, turns, rocks, tight, logs, all each seperateley then together all under his watchful eye. Up close and personal. Need to have 6 riders minimum. Who is in? Chime in now. No Bull so if you say your going and don't I will spread the word that you put orange plastic and graphics on your Husky! (Worse than saying you ride a KTM if you ask me)

Still have few last year sounds of Husky shirts that we will blow out this year at "caveman Prices"

The Logan family has been great to us over the years to use the little paradise. As a thanks we had Drew Smith at WER redo the rear shocks on Walters old 79 KTM 420
they were thrashed and ugly. Drew fixed up nice all new inside and out! Heim joints, bushings, bumpers, and the neat preload adjusters that you dont need to dick around with that little frickin clip! New Genuine Ohlins Springs for walters larger but still fast and smooth frame. So we gonna give to him and say thanks and no excuses anymore for no being fast.

Looking nice and new

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Cool preload adjusters and "Genuine" Ohlins Springs.....only the best for Walter

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New heims, bushings, bumpers......got the hollywood spa treatment from Drew!

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That said....bust out your any brand vintage Iron as well

See ya soon
 
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YES......YOU. To Come to the North East Husky Gathering 5-7 September, 2014.
 
So far got 3 for Bens school on 5 September. Still not enough to run it. Need a few more. Runs from 9am to 3pm.....6 hours long and just 100 bucks! Can't beat that with a stick in the eye.

This guy did not go to Bens school
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I would love to do Ben's school, but can't get out of work on Friday. We'll be heading up early Saturday AM.
 
ruwfo said:
What's the address for this here "Party"
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2754 South Cortland Virgil Rd. 13045-8988 This is the address of the Logan Farm proper, on the east side of the road. The farm road up to event location, is on west side about a tenth of a mile south. It will be arrowed and ribboned . We have tried to use the road location, but it confuses mapping programs and takes you to another road further north.
 
Joe,
I am looking forward to this gathering and have not been there for the last couple of years. Is the side slope GP type course in place? Loved that! Will be bringing a fully restored XC 1987 430 to try barely ridden this year. I had the Can-Am 400 a few years ago there. A great time and I will see you soon!24d_husky_03.jpg
 
VTtxc said:
Joe,
I am looking forward to this gathering and have not been there for the last couple of years. Is the side slope GP type course in place? Loved that! Will be bringing a fully restored XC 1987 430 to try barely ridden this year. I had the Can-Am 400 a few years ago there. A great time and I will see you soon!View attachment 45290
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Yes it is and of course I remeber you. More so from the enduro in that picture. that grass track was a fun one after the rain. Same place and as norm said.....many vintage bikes just burned all that in on top of us brush hogging and grooming it....very nice! bring out that can am too.

Kara will be ther too taking great pictures like the one you posted above.

Joe
 
OK all

Just an update
one bad news and much good news.
Bad news is not enough takers for Bens school on friday so we must cancel and give him ample notice to not have to change his plans last minute.

Good news.
1. Ahrma races were a success and the mx track (old school GP style) is nice and broke in. :banana:

2. Woods loop all burned in and we will include most of the mx track in the woods loop. Practicing MX does help for sure with woods riding. :applause:

3. Norm and I decided to go "old school" :oldman: less dog and pony. some due to shirt guy dyin but also get back to the roots and the fun. :notworthy:

4. This means "Husqvarna-care" is in effect. What is "Husqvarna-care"? :confused: Registration goes back to 2007 inaugural fee of $35! :thumbsup:

5. As usuual, all about the fun. no real schedule during the day. Meaning no mini competitions/prizes. Boo some may say :excuseme:
But we will have some swag :busted: ......just not the hour long giveaway. :popcorn: Some may miss the plaques for the infamous Spectro grass track challenge as well as the reward of that fine petroleum products but we wanna try something different too.

6. Have some skill events for p.m. bench racing time frame and prizes. some bike oriented....others not. d

OKay thats it for now

sugestions? Comments? questions from newcomers? ideas from the "old Guard"? Someone suggested as live a feed from the event to something here but beyond my knowledge.

Joe
 
Someone suggested as live a feed from the event to something here but beyond my knowledge.
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I'd tune in......I really wish I could come up there but it's not in my cards this year either.
 
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