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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Camansi BLVD Cebu - Riding bottom to top - APR 2015

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Been slacking alot lately but finally made a few videos that might be a little interesting ... This is the bike I just put rings in and so far ok but I really can't tell alot of difference in performance just yet.

With that said, this bike is a TC model and 1st gear is too tall on the trails from time to time. That's meaningless to me really as I just ride through places like that. But I do get a flameout from time to time on this bike, I think from the tall gear, made worse by worn rings? (WAG) ... Today, no flameouts and the grade of the climb that was never successful, short but maybe
enough to test the new rings performance. Bike felt ok to me and short climb but it pulled from the bottom RPM up the hill... Never thought the bike was the issue here with the climb.

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Here's the climb I could not make... It's steep and has 3 step-ups .... That middle step-up (right above the left handgrip) is solid rock and is well over knee-high ... Not vertical but close ...

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Camansi Bluffs view
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Sittng on the second stepup :(
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First attempt going up ... Looks like I misjudged a few things ... For openers, the bike pivoted on the rear axle after the climb stopped because I hit the rear brake too hard to stop from sliding back down the hill ...It was pretty steep ... Just for an instant I thought the bike was gonna flip back down and on me and that's when I rolled down the hill to get away ..
View: https://youtu.be/maHKjQxRKK4
 
Last attempt (3) - Should have made this one or at least got to the 3rd and final step-up ... Feathered the clutch perfectly over the middle setup, got the front wheel back down, felt the rear wheel step over, but was too laxed in getting back off the clutch and the terrain was so steep, I lost forward push.

View: https://youtu.be/TPCl2hw9o8w


I'll be going back here next week I do hope.
 
Here's the alternate route to go around this climb. Goes on up the spur in a different route but will twist back to the trail that goes up that climb. It looks simple enough but that slight path you can see, is about 3 knobby knobs wide... Plus that hill side is steep and that small creek below it is deep and steep ... If I slide off the path, I'm about guaranteed to end up in the bottom and will need help. I've went this way before and was wanting to make that climb instead of risking falling into the raven, but maybe not.
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That path needs about 1hr work with a pick to carve a small flat path into the side of the hill.
 
Here's the roll out after I was blocked ... Went down the creek on the way out and found some guys digging coal ... You just never know what you're gonna find here.

View: https://youtu.be/yO5aCUn1pBM


Not sure what breed that long-haired goat is exactly that I rolled by on the top-side, but it's got to be an expensive type ... costing lots more than most of the smaller short-haired goats all around here. Just judging by the way I've seen him (and his) run to the end of that rope and flip, he's no smarter I'd guess..
 
3 letters R P M watch the top tier guys----full R P M control power with clutch- stay ahead of the bike, once you're hanging off the back you are in loop out mode. That low rpm stuff especially on the short stroke x-lite high revver is a tough way to go about it.
If its a nogo bail get your bike parallel to the hill and lay down easy onto the uphill side......then you just wiggle your front until it faces down and roll back down, even in hill climb failure it can look fairly decent when done right.
 
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