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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Huskys are faster that Coyotes

superneil21;10454 said:
So today i just about ran down this coyote, but idk what would happen if i did run him over so i tried to get next to him and stomp him that didn't work lol
Does anyone have any experience runing over small animals with a motorcycle? and what is the outcome?
Im thinking if i did run him over i would crash somehow.
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I remember seeing this of TT a while back. The pics may be a little graphic for some, so I hope you dont have a weak stomach.
Its not a husky but it will give you an idea of what a bike would do at 90 mph.http://www.600rr.net/vb/showthread.php?t=108176
 
This summer in Colorado I was coming down a mountain road and ran into a cattle drive coming up the road. I was trying to get down the mountain because of the approaching storm (lighting, thunder, rain and hail). The rancher wasn't very happy to see me.

He told me to get that fu$#ing motorcycle off of his mountain! I told him that was what I was trying to do, but this is a public road and I had as much right to it as he and his cows. At that point he was nice enough to show me that he was wearing a side arm. :excuseme:

So I got off waited for the herd to pass and went on down the mountain. I'm sure he is still searching for some of his cows...
 
HuskyMax;10664 said:
BEWARE GRAPHIC PICS

I remember seeing this of TT a while back. The pics may be a little graphic for some, so I hope you dont have a weak stomach.
Its not a husky but it will give you an idea of what a bike would do at 90 mph.http://www.600rr.net/vb/showthread.php?t=108176
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wow thats wild the coyote was halved..

closest i ever came to hitting an animal was out for a practice on the mountain one day ...and a deer jumped out straight across the track ..directly over the front mudguard ..all i could see was deer in my vision.
wasn't going too fast but its scared the :censored:..out of me and provided everyone behind me with a great laugh
 
pvduke;10629 said:
I've hit cattle in Arizona.... on the BLM trails and the enduro loop.

Come round a nice little rutted corner dropping into a very tight wash fulla thorns and stuff them *BAM!* right into the side or worse- the butt.

They never fail to wheelie and go bucking off into the distance, unharmed, spraying dark green goo like a geyser, truly disgusting. All the while yer trapped under yer bike and yer mates and heaping insults, and rocks, on your doo-dee covered head. Not nice.

I figure it's just karma pay-back for the crossing made of a dead cow hide in a draw.
This thing fell into it or something and died-right in the track. It was way too steep and tight to move it out so that trail was closed for a while- untill nature took over, then it got flattened from gravity, and later on dried out....and made a creepy *bwonk-bwonk* like a piece of leather plywood when ya crossed over it at the bottom.
It truly stank after a rain too.

I hate cows. Truly disgusting animals. Even more so when they block trails wih thier bloated, rotting selves.

YUK. :thumbsdown:
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they taste good:thumbsup:
 
Mike Kay;10510 said:
Personally i try to respect the natural environment. I slow down or stop to let horses, cows, donkeys, camels, goats, monkeys, sheep, etc, move on. In 37 years of off roading, i cant ever remember killing or even hitting anything larger than a grasshopper.

I've had many close encounters with cattle in baja, and some exotic stuff overseas. But so far lady luck has held up for me. :)
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Yep, same here. I figure their energy is much better spent on surviving in the wild than trying to outrun me on my motorcycle. Sometimes rabbits get in front of me in the desert and they zig-zag along and won't get out of the way. The only way to get them to stop running for their lives is to stop. Once they don't hear you behind them anymore, they run off into the sagebrush where they belong.

I've come across cattle, sheep, wild horses, coyotes, bear, pack mules, deer, rabbits, pheasant, and numerous other critters, but have never hit any of them.


My personal rule of thumb in regards to trying to avoid hitting something
(i.e. taking evasive action which may result in my hitting the ground) on the trail or road is this: if it's not too big to eat in one sitting then don't try to avoid it. Hitting it probably won't make much difference to the rider. However, if it is too big to finish in one sitting, better try to avoid hitting it, for the impact will most surely hurt.



WoodsChick
 
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