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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

HairlessKitty's first ST.

XLEnduroMan

XLEnduroMan

Heroes Ride Huskys. The others follow.
Yesterday Becky and I ride from the house up to the hills. I wanted to show her what ST is all about. We hit a short section I have rode that I knew wasn't technical. I then connected to another trail that looked pretty tame. I was staying away from the rough stuff for her benefit. That nice trail had to go and get twisty on an uphill with rocks and roots. Well I heard her disgust from up at the top of the hill. I had to walk back down and remind her she has a world class ST bike and she needs to use all the controls and not just the throttle to clear stuff. Clutch slipping in the nasties is new to her as she has never had to on 2track and dirt roads. After that 1 section we rode a few more miles of some nicer trails and she was much happier. I think we will need to truck there next time. We were already 20 or so miles from the last gas, (60 or so from the house) the 70 mile fuel range is not so good.

My 510 did good, her 250 is clearly the better choice for the trails. Maybe a 2011 xlite TE 250 in the future?

Only took 1 pic of the ride though. :doh: It is a good one of her at a spring crossing.
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Glad she seems to like the singletrack.:thumbsup: It's some of my favorite stuff as long as we're not talking about "black diamond" level.:D

You guys have some pretty trails up there.
 
XLEnduroMan;44056 said:
Only took 1 pic of the ride though. :doh: It is a good one of her at a spring crossing.
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Great report and pic.(if only one) Glad she had a great ride. Always best to stay on the ST trails including board walks, or you'll end up like this.
Pretty embarrassing. :lol::lol:
:cheers:


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We are lucky that our better halves ride with us. I think that mine rides the super duper rocky junk better than i do:applause:
 
XLEnduroMan;44056 said:
Yesterday Becky and I ride from the house up to the hills. I wanted to show her what ST is all about. We hit a short section I have rode that I knew wasn't technical. I then connected to another trail that looked pretty tame. I was staying away from the rough stuff for her benefit. That nice trail had to go and get twisty on an uphill with rocks and roots. Well I heard her disgust from up at the top of the hill. I had to walk back down and remind her she has a world class ST bike and she needs to use all the controls and not just the throttle to clear stuff. Clutch slipping in the nasties is new to her as she has never had to on 2track and dirt roads. After that 1 section we rode a few more miles of some nicer trails and she was much happier. I think we will need to truck there next time. We were already 20 or so miles from the last gas, (60 or so from the house) the 70 mile fuel range is not so good.

My 510 did good, her 250 is clearly the better choice for the trails. Maybe a 2011 xlite TE 250 in the future?

Only took 1 pic of the ride though. :doh: It is a good one of her at a spring crossing.
8-8-09.jpg
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Ooh...if you're riding from your house in Chico then I bet you're getting to the good stuff! I've ridden with a friend of mine that lives there and there is some super-tasty single track there! Real single track, too, not like the blown-out stuff at Stonyford or Middle Creek :thumbsup:

Glad to see Becky is having a good time and enjoying her 250 :applause: A little more saddle time and she'll get the hang of the smaller motor, for sure.



WoodsChick
 
PhilM;44908 said:
We are lucky that our better halves ride with us. I think that mine rides the super duper rocky junk better than i do:applause:
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Yes, we truly are. I can't imagine how different my life would be if my better half wasn't a rider.

Eric is much faster than I am, but he says he just bashes his way through stuff and that I am technically a much better rider. I don't know about that...:)



WoodsChick
 
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