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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Awesome Ride this weekend

Sph123

Sph123

Husqvarna
AA Class
Here are a couple photos from my ride this weekend. The scenary was absolutly beautiful. This is in Utah, we started by heading up US 6 (Spanish Fork Canyon). Parked at some rest area and took off from there. The lake you see in the background is Strawberry reservoir. IMG_0985.JPGIMG_0986.JPGIMG_0987.JPGIMG_0988.JPG
 
Each time I take this bike out i am even more impressed with it. There does seem to be a bit of an issue with the bike at higher eleveations. I will be taking it in and have the shop put it on the computer. At 4000-6000 ft in elevation it runs fantastic, seems like when i get up to and above 7500 it looses power. My thoughts are it shouldn't do that being fuel injected. That being said, I have a story.

There was this knarly loose gravel,sand,rocky trail that we went down that was very loose and knarly at the beginning of the ride, when the ride was over, i wanted to go back the same way we came so we could go up that hill. The bikes in my group were: my 2013 TXC310, a 2013 TE310, 2009 CRF450X and an older 510 or something KTM (XCW type). My buddie ont he KTM hit the hill first and after two runs he still couldn't make it, I attribute this to he was sitting down and because it was so steep he didn't have enough control over the front tire. After his 2nd run, another group of riders came up, they were all on beautiful KTM 4 strokes and they were nice nice nice. I decided it was my turn so off i went, i was going to try to hit it in 2nd but changed my mind and left in in 1st, there are slight blind turns at the bottom so you can't really pick a good line. I stood up, leaned forward and went balls to the wall. Just over half way up i got into some harder packed dirt which put me in line for a little jump, I hit the jump, but while doing so, i had to let off the throttle, when I did this I ended up sitting down, throttled out when I landed and did an awesome (by mistake) wheelie up most of the rest of the way. I was soooo excited that I yelled out a couple Heck yeah's (sort of) due to my excitement on how much i love this bike.

My buddy on the KTM then tried it again and flew right up it, then came the TE310 and he came up it pretty good but he struggled some. The owner of the TE310 had to go back down and get his brothers 450X as he is brand new at this and there was no way we were going to let him try it. ( he couldn't make it up with the 450 x so he ended up side hililng it as he didn't want to go back down) Now its time for the group with the KTM's to take there shots. one after the other kept trying and trying and trying, there first mistake in my opinon is they were all sitting down, this hill was so steep and sandy that when they would make the little turns at the bottom they lost total control of the steering. They ended up getting up about halfway and then one by one we helped them push the bikes up. Talk about exhausting. Still love those KTM's but i'm really loving my Husky even more. Once we got them all down, the trail was even more tore up and so me and my KTM riding friend decided we wanted to try it again. We both went down and right back up, it was a bit harder this 2nd time as the dirt was alot looser due to the tire spin of the previous bikes. Those guys on the KTM were in awe of my little 310 Husky. I loved it.

Anyway, what an awesome weekend ride and will definitly go down there again in the near future.
 
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