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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Last Blaze of Autumn color 09/26/26

Dirtdame

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It was probably the peak of color for the aspens in the mountains up here, so I wanted to get one last "color" ride in before the leaves all start to turn brown and blow away with the wind. I also wanted to finish a "bucket list" loop that I first scoped out a couple years ago. There was a couple of really steep, washed out downhill stretches....one at the very top and one at the very bottom of that route. The one at the top was really rocky, but still held some moisture, so it had pretty good traction. The one at the bottom was very smooth and hard packed, but off camber, dry and slippery. I didn't care for that one at all, and if I had tried to go up that route instead of down, I probably wouldn't have gotten very far. Aside from those two stretches, the trail was pretty easy, and quite beautiful. The whole ride was beautiful, though.

Next up for a "bucket list " trail will be the Heaven and Hell trail on the other side of the mountain. I hope to get it done before the snow flies. If not, then next summer.












 
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redman said:
Beautiful country as always. Do you ever run across any wildlife on your rides?
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Yes. Lots of wildlife up here. In the mountains, I see deer, elk, an occasional moose, marmots, grouse. In the desert at home, I see deer, antelope, foxes.
 
Such nice panoramas out there :)

It's fun how the climate can be so different , here in NW Spain the riding season has not even started as we came from a very dry summer and only this week the rain has started so I am finally expecting to ride again this weekend, everything is still green here as well :D

As far as wildlife I see lots of rabbits, like several per ride, when riding first in the group (almost always), and only two times in my 19 years of riding I saw a roe deer, one of those times jumping and colliding sideways into the motorcycle of a friend riding in front of me ... what a shock , but the animal continued running away so I guess no mayor issues. One time a wild hog crossed our way and couldn't care less about us :D
 
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DeathFromAbove said:
How ya Likeing the KLX?
Those seats really make me limp.
Beautiful!!
Thanks
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I really like the bike, and I find the seat pretty comfortable, which is extra good, because my knees are bent so much that it is difficult to go from sitting to standing. That being said, I can sit on that little bike all day.
Things I like about the bike. It was inexpensive to purchase. It has a wheelbase 5 inches shorter than my other bikes, so it can turn really quick and get in and out of tight spaces.. It has good ground clearance, but I can easily flat foot with it. It starts and runs fairly easily (after I got a 22mm Mikuni and a FMF slip-on). It can go well over 100 miles, maybe 150 miles on the 1.5 gallon fuel tank. Electric start is nice. It has enough low end to get up some darn serious inclines. In spite of the lousy suspension, the bike gets through rocky sections pretty well without any noticeable deflection. It has really strong brakes for such a little machine. Standard full sized wheels are great for trail work.
Things I don't like....mushy little 33 mm front forks, cramped ergos for trying to stand up. It's a lot of fun for exploring, but not at any sort of speed. But I knew what I was getting, and I still have all my full sized bikes for those yet to come full sized adventures.

I may get different bars for it, and try a peg lowering kit to make better for standing up.
 
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