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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Northwest Fall Gathering Round 2 - China Hat / Bend Oregon Oct 2011

LawnDartMike said:
Any more news on the Husky NA involvement?
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My understanding is that we will see them when we see them. They have every intention of having people there, but really cant promise how many, who, what they will bring etc. We are going to ride and whatever they add is icing on the cake (birthday cake that is).
 
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I am planning to head up there. May I ask ? should I put the dirt wheels on the 510 or the 250.
The 510 on SM street tires will go anywhere the 250 will go with Knobbies... where I ride.
 
Alrighteeee then! Guess this thing is happening? Was out of the loop for awhile playing in the Mojave for most of August. I want to come and play, too:cheers:
 
510 SM SC said:
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I am planning to head up there. May I ask ? should I put the dirt wheels on the 510 or the 250.
The 510 on SM street tires will go anywhere the 250 will go with Knobbies... where I ride.
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I, too, ride my SM in the dirt all the time with streety tires...but I wouldn't want to do it at China Hat. It's pretty sandy (decomposed granite, maybe?) in a lot of places and the trails are fast. The perfectly bermed turns are practically screaming to get busted with a gnarly set of knobs :D
 
WoodsChick said:
I, too, ride my SM in the dirt all the time with streety tires...but I wouldn't want to do it at China Hat. It's pretty sandy (decomposed granite, maybe?) in a lot of places and the trails are fast. The perfectly bermed turns are practically screaming to get busted with a gnarly set of knobs :D
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WC has that right it is a place that favors horsepower, even a 250 2 stroke sometimes feels too slow out there .. ... As for the softish terrain it is volcanic ash and sand. The Cascade Range to the west is a 'young' set of volcanic mountains that spewed ash all over central Oregon .... in addition to the well known Mt. St. Helens volcano http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_St._Helens , and Crater Lake many of the other mountains in the Cascades are monitored for underground volcanic activity. Many of the roads in the area are graveled with cinders.
 
Motosportz said:
Put the knobs on the 510 and just bring that, not tight up there so EZ for big bikes.
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Thanks all, for answering my poor question? what bike to bring and proper set-up to have.
I have been thinking about swapping some parts around between the two bikes for a while.
This will get me motivated for sure.
 
510 SM SC said:
Thanks all, for answering my poor question? what bike to bring and proper set-up to have.
I have been thinking about swapping some parts around between the two bikes for a while.
This will get me motivated for sure.
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We will have enough tools around that you can probably swap and reswap all you want !!
 
Are other exotic bikes welcome?

My current ride (Gasgas DE300) might need to make room for a WR/CR 144 or 150.

Any chance to sample one of the lighweights?

I will be riding the same area the weekend before with my family and some friends, but just might have to trek over 2 weekends in a row!
 
firffighter said:
Are other exotic bikes welcome?

My current ride (Gasgas DE300) might need to make room for a WR/CR 144 or 150.

Any chance to sample one of the lighweights?

I will be riding the same area the weekend before with my family and some friends, but just might have to trek over 2 weekends in a row!
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Of course you and your GasGas are welcome to come! I'd be more than happy to trade bikes with you, although my `09 WR144 is lowered 1" and is probably set up kind of soft (suspension and motor) for you. I'm sure there will be plenty of other bikes around, though, and you are more than welcome to switch bikes with Eric and ride his `09 WR250. He has a DE300 and an ECO250 of his own and he loves them, too :) A word of warning, though...he test rode a few Huskys at this ride last year and 2 weeks later we were making the long trek to Salem to pick up his new Husky. Same thing happened to me after I test-rode the WR125. Test-riding Huskys is hazardous to your wealth :D
 
This could be a dangerous situation! I better give a heads up the the CFO of the house before I head over!

Thanks for the generous offers on trying some bikes out and a welcome to your Husky gathering.
 
firffighter said:
This could be a dangerous situation! I better give a heads up the the CFO of the house before I head over!

Thanks for the generous offers on trying some bikes out and a welcome to your Husky gathering.
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You're welcome.

Yes, it is rather dangerous! I was almost ready to buy an Aprilia, of all things!, after our last trip to China Hat. Thanks again for the test ride, Troffer88 :)

And as far as alerting the CFO, it's probably better not to mention it to her beforehand. Tis far better to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
 
firffighter said:
This could be a dangerous situation! I better give a heads up the the CFO of the house before I head over!

Thanks for the generous offers on trying some bikes out and a welcome to your Husky gathering.
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I have a 11-TE250, 11-TXC511, 09-WR300 that you are welcome to sample just so your research is thorough.
 
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