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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

my single-track got blown out and I'm pi$$ed

colemanapp said:
Briggs,
Thanks and I will. Wish our trees were as tight as yours or I don't think we'd be having this problem. After riding your place, I did make all the entrances to single track off camber but it seems this guy is intent on hitting the trail so he just blows in somewhere else. Seems like the forest by you is choking us out of riding too.

My ride yesterday was so disappointing. Theres some single track left however we have very few sections of creek due to those lakes. The one section we do have is not only blown out by the ATV but now my cousin with a side by side UTV has been going through the creek and you guessed it, truck width now. This sure didn't take long. I think there's just too many people with what they consider 'rights' to use the farm. Hell, even I don't own anything so 'MY singletrack' isn't really mine as I'm finding out. I made the single track by walking through the woods with a leafblower and then riding the stuff. Works really well but it was work. I guess nowadays just might as well grab a quad and run through the woods blowing stuff down.

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New single-track in the works. Check the Briggs Forum at: www.briggs.studiocdz.com for updates.
 
I had something similar happen to my riding area that is on remote town land. I had a 3.7 mile loop there I could ride to from my house. It was fun and had a little bit of everything- big hills, drop offs, fast open sections, natural jumps, nasty off cambers, and a lot of tight technical sections with lots of obstacles to get over. I've been riding there for about 13 years and maintaining the area myself. All of a sudden I go up there one day and some trees have been cut out for ATVs. A couple weeks later more trees and then all the big logs. All the nice tight sections I had made are gone and so wide you could drive a car through most of it. I can't figure out what the heck they had in mind. They had plenty of roads in the area they could cruise on. Worst part is I never saw anyone riding there after they trashed it and there wasn't one track left all last season from them. They just came up, ruined big sections of my loop and never came back. Seasons of work down the drain, but it's town land so what can you say. Frustrating anyway.
 
I have have worked years on single track but not my land. Quads have destroyed so much. I have resulted in making real tight single track & sometimes even by friends complain about the tightness but "oh well" at least it's not ruts & mud holes. If the trees are not tight enough your main solution in my eyes is to have a real good talk with your nephew eliminating quads or bigger machines but remembering just because you were there 1st doesn't give you all the rights. HE has a bike so that is a plus. No one should mind signing a waiver & you mom should want this. This may not be the bottom line but it would help & most of all it should help make this land a little more exclusive. Sounds like a family meeting is in order.
 
We have a simlar thing happening, but not so much with quads. Nothing wrong with 4*4s but after rain they can be so destructive. There are heaps of local trails that get completely ripped up after rain by those huge knobbies. :mad:
 
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