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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Baja husky ride!

Coffee;18412 said:
My going on the trip and driving chase truck went from 98% probable to 50% at best about an hour ago.
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Don,t say that I was looking forward to meeting the man behind the forum.
 
highball;18051 said:
Howdy! New member here. Looking at possibly doing this Baja ride.
I have a couple questions:

1. How much slab riding will there be? Three years ago(?), I rode from San Felipe to Puertecitos and as I remember it was "paved" most/all the way. From there, it was dirt heading South. Maybe I'm not remembering correctly.
2. Is anyone going from Phoenix that would want to carpool? I live in Prescott, have a truck, trailer, and don't want to drive alone all the way to San Felipe.

Thanks
-Nick
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Road miles:
Minimum will be 35 miles split in two sections. Yes it sucks, but its only 15-20 minutes, then alot of hours dirt, then 15-20 minutes again.
It is possible to take more pavement, if riders need to (tired, broken, in a hurry, whatever) and especially the 610 guys might choose to do so, but it will only be an option. Everyone is encouraged to take the dirt-610's as well.
We know all the trails, beach sections, options, etc. and so we can be flexible depending on 'how its going'
Most guys do think its mostly pavement from San Felipe to Bay of LA.
But its not.

Caravan:
You can meet us at the Mc Donalds in Calexico (the border) at 2pm on Friday and follow us down. I dont know of a safe place to park and leave your truck on the US side. :excuseme: I dont know of anyone coming from Arizona, but i could also be wrong about that?

Come join us********************************************************************************!!!
 
hammer;18416 said:
Don,t say that I was looking forward to meeting the man behind the forum.
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I'm trying****************************************

It's one of those things that just came up, I'll try my best to get there! I do not do these types of things willy nilly.
 
Coffee;18465 said:
I'm trying****************************************

It's one of those things that just came up, I'll try my best to get there! I do not do these types of things willy nilly.
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Any help you need from us? All you need to do is ask Dean.

Gary
 
fitness2go;18503 said:
Mike...I was reading the first page and I am not a seafood guy so put me down for meat only.
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If I drink to much, I am a see-food guy. Keep me away from the ta-kill-ya. :lol:

Really, if there is an order that needs to be placed, I am open for BEEF, not a deal breaker, but prefered or both.

How about a pool of who needs a ride and who has room? I would hate to see alot of people driving solo. Takers?? Givers??

PALMER84ONE AKA Gary, Tacoma quad cab room for 3 bikes plus 2 riders and gear. Or lone ranger who will or can be at Uptite Fri. morning....
 
thanks guys

Thanks Mike Kay for the info.
Thanks also Palmer840ne (Gary). That is exactly what I'm asking about. We need to coordinate some carpooling.
-Nick
 
PALMER84ONE;18507 said:
If I drink to much, I am a see-food guy. Keep me away from the ta-kill-ya. :lol:

Really, if there is an order that needs to be placed, I am open for BEEF, not a deal breaker, but prefered or both.

How about a pool of who needs a ride and who has room? I would hate to see alot of people driving solo. Takers?? Givers??

PALMER84ONE AKA Gary, Tacoma quad cab room for 3 bikes and gear. Or lone ranger who will or can be at Uptite Fri. morning....
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Great idea Gary, we should start thinking about car pool stuff. I have my exploerer and a three rail trailer but rather than soloing with a trailer I would prefer to meet some where like Uptite and load gear in a truck. It makes the ride down nicer and sharing the gas/insurance expenses helps everyone.
 
Great idea about carpooling. With so many guys going, i will just leave it up to y'all to figure it out.

IF YOU HAVE ROOM IN YOUR TRUCK, PLEASE POST, AND YOUR TOWN/ROUTE

I am now full. :excuseme:

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Meat is good. We will have them do some beef to go with the seafood.
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Mike Kay;18417 said:
Road miles:
Minimum will be 35 miles split in two sections. Yes it sucks, but its only 15-20 minutes, then alot of hours dirt, then 15-20 minutes again.
It is possible to take more pavement, if riders need to (tired, broken, in a hurry, whatever) and especially the 610 guys might choose to do so, but it will only be an option. Everyone is encouraged to take the dirt-610's as well.
We know all the trails, beach sections, options, etc. and so we can be flexible depending on 'how its going'
Most guys do think its mostly pavement from San Felipe to Bay of LA.
But its not.

Caravan:
You can meet us at the Mc Donalds in Calexico (the border) at 2pm on Friday and follow us down. I dont know of a safe place to park and leave your truck on the US side. :excuseme: I dont know of anyone coming from Arizona, but i could also be wrong about that?

Come join us********************************************************************************!!!
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I'm kinda glad that you posted that there would be bailout options. I wreched my back out the other day (old injury that haunts me from time to time) and I don't know what condition I'll be in two weeks from now. The last thing I wanted to do was get down there, start hurting real bad and end up being a burden for the others. I feel more comfortable knowing that I could exit gracefully with out impacting everyone elses fun.
 
Not sure if this should be another thread or just left here???
As discussed, we need to start a carpool buddy system. I live in the OC so, I will be at Uptite that morning to tag along or be a chauffeur and share the expense.
As stated I can bring two (2) extra bikes, gear and riders.
I can also bring a driver to return my truck to home and tag along with others. If there is room. (I will need to know if I am a tagger or a chauffeur before that.)
PM me If you have room for one more or would like to share a ride.

Thanks,
Gary
 
I was wondering how much extra fuel I should carry for this ride. I have the stock TXC tank and never really need a larger tank where we ride so buying a couple of IMS tanks doesn't seem sensible for one ride. I was thinking of getting some MSR fuel bottles.
Thanks
 
Which Mc Donalds in Calexico? A web search revealed two in town. I assume it's the one on Imperial, aka hwy 111.
 
Best way to hump the extra gas is with bleach bottles, just duct tape the bottom and sides cactus protection. They just hang off your fanny pak belt after 5 min don't even know it's there. 30 min later it's in the tank anyway. And still have over 100 to go. Would plan on 2 anyway looks like possibly 35-40 riders depending on how many bail out last minute. If wind up with 1 chase truck it would have to be the Valdiez so plan on 2 gal, if don't need it then will bury it for the return run. Thing about Mex is the term Maybe Menyona translated No Gas Maybe tomorrow. Later George
 
Coffee;18712 said:
I'm trying real hard to get there and be a chase driver.
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You have to. If you don't everyone will have to carry 5 gal's min. Not one to put any pressure on you just a motovational jab. Later George
 
Coffee;18465 said:
I'm trying****************************************

It's one of those things that just came up, I'll try my best to get there! I do not do these types of things willy nilly.
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Sometimes willy nilly works out just fine.

If you change your mind and if it helps let me know; I can overnight a whole box of willy nilly to ya. I've got plenty of it laying around.
 
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