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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Fun in the snow

Colo moto

Colo moto

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Got the chance to take one of the 2moto kits out today. It was very fun, and if you have the cash for one, do it. Here's my impressions

Cons:

Hard pack is no fun! The ski wants to follow every groove in the snow from other sleds and this makes it very sketchy on hard pack. It settles down with just about 3 inches of fresh snow though so as long as you can ride on the side of the trail you will be ok.

On a 450 at 10,000-12,000 feet it was really working the motor. Most of the time was spent in 1st or second. I only saw 3rd on a slight downhill. A 510 with that 530 big bore kit would be much better.

It's hard to ride with snowmobiles. One machine always has an advantage over the other. On hardpack the snowmobile is much easier to ride. In the open, or on long straights the sled will gobble up the bike. But anytime the you have to cut across a hill the bike will leave the sled for dead. Trees are a no brainer on these things too. So if you are riding with a sled one person is often waiting for the other.

Pros:

Fun fun fun!!! With the exception of hard pack the bike is much easier to ride than a sled. Side hilling is a no brainer, no leaning and tugging fighting gravity, just point and go. We rode up a 4wheel drive trail that's cut into the side of a steep hill, so the snow is at an angle. I took off first up the trail. It's uphill climb for about 3-4 miles, and by the half way mark I was a good minute ahead of the sled and I wasn't even pushing it hard. Any time you have to cut across a hill this thing will run circles around a sled.

Trees are suddenly fun. On a sled you avoid tight trees unless there is a good size trail that you know where it goes. Not on this thing, it turns so effortlessly that you find yourself riding into the trees full bore.

In fresh powder you can ride wide open and then just lay er over and carve a nice turn. The feeling is so graceful and smooth it's like nothing else.

So in conclusion, I will be looking for a TC or TXC 510 soon and will be putting the 2moto kit on. With everyone in the group on one of these I think you will be exploring trails and places you wouldn't dare on a sled.

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They do suck down some gas.
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A little air.
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Trying to bust some sweet berm snots.
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And failing, haha
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Clay-

You rock.

And great pics.

I've been looking at various versions of the conversion for a while. It's cool to read a real live review.


paul
 
Wow...that looks awesome! Could you explain a little more about the hard pack? How sketchy? Did you lay it down a bunch of times on hard pack?

David
 
I think you hit the pro's and con's real close! I rode one on a 530 KTM, but think the 505 sx with the 2 cams would have been better. Hard packed or icey trails it sucked. Trees and powder it killed the snowmobile. You also did want to just let off the throttle completely at speed, or the back end wanted to swap. :eek:
 
oregontrail;16929 said:
You also did want to just let off the throttle completely at speed, or the back end wanted to swap. :eek:
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That might be a setup issue as the ones i rode did not do that. They were a little nervous at speed though.
 
Wow...that looks awesome! Could you explain a little more about the hard pack? How sketchy? Did you lay it down a bunch of times on hard pack?
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Snowmobiles have a carbide runner on the bottom of the ski that bites into hard snow. These runners make grooves, or mini ruts in the snow. The ski on the bike also has these carbides, and they want to follow all the other grooves that are already in the snow. So the front end is always wandering back and forth following these other grooves. Also the steering on hard pack is VERY heavy. The contact patch for the ski is 18 inches long vs like 2 inches for a bike tire. So you can't just turn the handle bars like you do a dirt bike, you have to lean to turn. Similar to a street bike.
You also did want to just let off the throttle completely at speed, or the back end wanted to swap.
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Yeah, I didn't experience this either. Once I got it in the powder I felt like I could do no wrong on this thing.
 
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