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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

International entry to the 'Off the Mountainside' Club

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I coined the 'Off the Mountainside' Club phase in GPNF after I went off a very narrow trail due to a whooping tree extending over the trail and ended up about 50' down the mountain side ... No video or pics that time but believe me, that event, was like a cartoon happening as it unfolded and played out ...

This time, I had my helmet cam and camera with me ...James was riding with me (on my 08 TXC250) so I was going faster than a normal ride alone. I'm not 100% sure how it happened but I do think I followed that small water drainage rut off the trail sort of like I was on a berm and railing a corner ...Except the small rut was heading straight off the trail ... I was just a little off-balanced to the slope side also and this was an issue also...

The trick to stop the bike from going down the slope (in this case) is to drive the handlebar on the trail side into the ground to help stop the bike and not allow it to tumble over the top side going down the slope ... The vegetation really helped stop the bike also ...

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You can see the slight outline (starting behind James' boots) of the small drainage rut across the road here and that is pretty much the path I took off the trail ...I look for any rut for traction now and I'll have to be a little more aware about where a rut might lead the bike ...
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Here's the video of the event ...
 
I told my gf that I parked the bike perfectly on that slope to stop it and I from going down into that 5-600' valley or however deep it ... I don't think she understood that once I saw I was heading off the side of the mountain, that I yanked the bars to the right in an attempt to stay on the trail but when I saw my front wheel was caught in the washed out place over the side, that I intentionally threw the bike on its right side and bailed off on the high side onto the trail ... All happened in well under 2 seconds and under my control as much as possible ...3-5 MPH faster and maybe my reflexes would not have been fast enough to lay the bike over on the top side and that video might have been my last ...Instead, an almost total non-event except to remind me of how dangerous this riding really is ...
 
MotoMarc36 said:
That dog made you do it! Minor! Bet that was fun to wrestle back up trailside!
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Happy New Year!

It can be a pain but it's technique again bringing one back to the top side,...again this was learned in GPNF ... First thing is not to let the bike side any more downhill which is not easy on that steep a slope but the vegetation did help greatly ... Placing a foot under the tire you are not pulling up first helps keep the bike in place ... You can also 'roll' either wheel and get leverage from the wheel ... Again, you grab the wheel and roll it, not pull it but roll the wheel and that knobby will usually grab and the bike can be rolled up closer to the top and then be muscled as needed to finish the job ...

It was a little weird after I got going because ~zero injury to the bike && me and it could have been very bad for both of us ... So I backed off my speed-edge again I was carrying because I have alot more riding to do today and in the near future ... No downtime please!

McKay said:
Naa, banana trees would have snapped off and saved your bacon!
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I'm 100% down with banana trees :) .. They seem to be alright as far as hitting one on a bike ... I've never hit one but even the ones as big as a light pole at the bottom seem to give some when you just push on them ...Maybe no real root system and no real bark plus inside them, they seem like soft fiber and have plenty of moisture ... Given the option of hitting one of these or a rock, or about anything else here, the banana tree is acceptable. Coconut trees are about the opposite and should be avoided ...

Looking at the below pic , I think I see the trees you are referring to ... I'd diffentenly have been looking at the trees below me as a savior if I flipped or drove downward ... Making it across washout about 4' in front of me and reaching those trees planted along that top side would have been almost impossible ... Again, looks like perfect parking in the highlands ...


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