• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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.

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Do you have a secret riding area?

My SM's still in bits. I go in the garage and sit on her and wish a lot
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Seriously though folks, in the UK we struggle for any sort of 'freedom'. It's easy to take for granted the good things you have. Country lane back roads here with the odd pub and some rare green lanes.. you guys in the US are blessed, defend it!
 
moto66 said:
My SM's still in bits. I go in the garage and sit on her and wish a lot :lol:

Seriously though folks, in the UK we struggle for any sort of 'freedom'. It's easy to take for granted the good things you have. Country lane back roads here with the odd pub and some rare green lanes.. you guys in the US are blessed, defend it!
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I always wondered how/what you guys ride cus dirt biking seems popular there too.
 
firecrotch said:
I always wondered how/what you guys ride cus dirt biking seems popular there too.
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It definitely is but on a more organised club level for off roading. Sports bikes are by far the tool of choice here. The ability to just pick up and go off for a ride through forest/wilderness doesn't really exist. There are 'green lanes' which are rights of way but they are few, especially here in the south of England. Perhaps others know better but I think there is more open space up north and probably more freedom to ride.
 
Sort of off topic, but what is north west of Glasgow? I see lots of open areas on google maps..
 
Coffee said:
Sort of off topic, but what is north west of Glasgow? I see lots of open areas on google maps..
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Lots of open areas! You're dead right. The problem is that all land belongs to someone, ie landowners, the Crown (Crown Estates), and access is not necessarily free and gratis. I live on the edge of the New Forest near Southampton. It's a lovely place with woods and trails and heathland but riding is strictly verboten. Heavy fines, impound bike job. Don't get me wrong, there certainly are trails out there (Wales is good) but nothing like on the scale or volume you have. I was in S Dakota/Denver in 09. The space and scale is awesome
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Only 5 minutes from my house there is single track for off-road! I live in a village and just 15 minutes riding I will be in a nice forest for riding! I love it.
 
Coffee said:
Is bike riding on your own land ok in the UK & Scotland? (if you own the land).
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As far as I know yes. I think if you were causing a noise/pollution problem to neighbours you might have issues or set up an MX track etc. Only the wealthy have that sort of space. My back garden just about permits a 360 circle. It's good till you start feeling a bit green and the route's a bit predictable...
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raisrx251 said:
Bagman, are you talking about Hatfield McKoy? It's a great experiment to help bring money to the town, tons of trails and friendly to ATV's and Dirt Bikes. How can you not have a great time with a huge trail system and when you get low on fuel or hungry you can ride into town to get food and fuel. I just wished they had a few more Single track trails.

West VA used to have a law where a ATV can be ridden on the paved roads (45mph and under) if it the ATV had a headlight and Brake light. I think they have changed it now where only roads that do not have a center line? Not sure on that.
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Yes, that's the area's I am talking about. That trails system is huge & has a lot of small towns benifiting from the off roaders. The hotels & motels are packed & in the fall there is a get together that attracts thousands. I camp on top of a mountain that requires a tractor to pull my RV to the site. It definetly needs more single track but the 1st one i got on was labeled 'most difficult' & it took a trails bike to make it up the ledges. I ended up standing my bike on it's tail end & up against a tree. Never did fall
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Can't wait till October!
 
indohus said:
Only 5 minutes from my house there is single track for off-road! I live in a village and just 15 minutes riding I will be in a nice forest for riding! I love it.
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Forgive me but I can't seem to equate village with motorcycles
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I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday and he went green laning with a mate in his Isuzu 4x4. Found 20+ miles of off road routes, legal to vehicles/bikes. The interesting part is that his mate had an 'app' on his iphone which shows all the UK green lanes, and another 'app' which was GPS. Apparently they work together and direct you off of one green lane, down the road a mile or whatever, and on to the start of another one. I don't run off road but I thought I would let you know - if you don't already - that this is available
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Here in Nevada about 90% of the state is owned by BLM , which means public land. I've never had any problems as long as you use common sense. This equates to thousands of miles of various terrain. I love it here. All are welcome.
 
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