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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Glamis - Who Rides There?

Mike Kay;5019 said:
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Also, the rear tires that have the least tall knobs work best....
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Hmmm. :thinking:

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*** You read my mind, Coffee:D***


Mike Kay;5019 said:
...Also, the rear tires that have the least tall knobs work best. They dont dig down as much, and tend to have a wider footprint, even with lots of air. Most guys think a soft terrain MX tire like a S12 is the way to go, but its not, they just dig to much sand to fast and cut thru the top thin crust layer of the sand...
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And this, my friends, is why trials tires work well in the sand. Iv'e been saying it all along, but not as clearly nor as conscisely as Mike just did.
Trials tires ride on top of the sand and do not dig themselves into a hole.

Now, would I run a trials tire specifically to go adventuring in nothing but sand dunes for miles on end? No. But they work great for a 2-week trip through the sands of UT.


WoodsChick
 
mike great write up....i have always been very geographically aware and always wonderered about that whole belt of dunes that intersect the border.
 
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