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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

in a series of firsts

hhdwtmtw said:
I agree on the extra weight penalty however my riding skills are not at the level required to protect the pipe (double blipping logs and holding pressure to keep the front wheel up). I only have the one pipe so the extra protection will stay until my skills improve.
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Well, that makes sense :thumbsup:
racemx904 said:
There is no way I would put a Hyde plate on my scooter.....
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Why not?
 
Huge mud shovel.... NO WAY..... I would have 6 tons of mud packed in that thing.... also there is no need for all that... plus those thick metal plates make your frame stiff and effects your bike a ton, I hate the echo from the engine off a metal plate.... plastic all the way....

As for a log.... I cant imagine how big the log would have to be for me to smash a pipe on it.... 2ft plus in diameter? You shouldn't have to hold a "wheelie" to cross a log.... when approaching preload forks and blip throttle, you want the front wheel to contact the log enough to act like its a jump, when rear hits log carry momentum over....
 
The Hyde plate I have is plastic composite, only issue for me is the hardware didn't work and I had to visit the nut and bolt shop again. :cheers:
 
i didnt take a pic of my latest flattened pipe but here is another example with a CF/fibre glass guard . this was from a small tight sandy wash -slow not over 25 mph but I saw a good line that wasnt. I was a sharp rock behind a bush. just hammered the guard and flattened the pipe and this one put me on the ground,, but it was soft sand so no worry. and really did not know it was so flat just rode all day like that
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