megatiker75
Husqvarna
AA Class
And ... This morning going to work
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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Now that you bought the TR650 - where ya gonna go?
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Katten
Husqvarna
AA Class
In Sweden we are going from autumn into winter... but it´s still time to do some nice trips on the bike :-) When it is 10degrees celsius it´s nice to have heated grips :-) This weekend me and a friend took the Terra and it´s cousin, the BMW 650 Dakar on a nice tour in the countryside. We also tried each others bike, and WOW! I like the Terra better
even my friend thought the Terra was easier to handle, better on gravel roads.
kswaid
Husqvarna
A Class
No pictures, but this is tunnel road in Massachusetts. Go forward to 7:30 for the good stuff.
View: http://youtu.be/HwmcFLkkHHk?t=7m30s
turtlemoye
Husqvarna
AA Class
That looks like a great trail. Just curious, how would you compare your Terra to your 950 Adventure?
What tires do you have on your TR650?
krussell
Strada Adventurer
kswaid
Husqvarna
A Class
It is way more manageable than the KTM when the going gets rough, thus you can have more fun just playing with it instead of fighting the weight. On the road there is obviously no comparison, the 950 rocks.
I was running a set of 1/2 worn TKC-80s on that trip. They are the best tire I have found for the Terra, because they last and work well for the long road miles I have to do to get places like this (~100 miles away).
I'm glad you guys enjoyed the video. I've got quite a few more on my youtube channel taken from on the Terra. It gets abused badly for a brand new bike.
I was running a set of 1/2 worn TKC-80s on that trip. They are the best tire I have found for the Terra, because they last and work well for the long road miles I have to do to get places like this (~100 miles away).
I'm glad you guys enjoyed the video. I've got quite a few more on my youtube channel taken from on the Terra. It gets abused badly for a brand new bike.
motozen
Husqvarna
A Class
Hi, I'm a newbie, an ecuadorian designer, I also work in hospitality. Bought a TR650 (not yet arrived) but i'd love to recieve info about this bike, how to break-it and the first tips & thinks to know about it. As soon i have it, i'm intending a short trip to Colombia (rock festival @Bogota). Regards
turtlemoye
Husqvarna
AA Class
You don't look 50.
NYCMX
Husqvarna
AA Class
No no thats my roomate...LOL She likes to do wheelies down the block on it.
krussell
Strada Adventurer
FER QUILES
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AA Class
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Hansi
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Thanksgiving morning gives me some time to do a ride report and post pictures from our recent Baja trip.
Every year in September/October we get to pick those:
With those:
Harvest lasts about six weeks, 7 days a week, the workday starts when we need to and stops when we are done. 16 hour days are not unusual.
Decided to take a week off after harvest and head to Baja, Mexico for RnR and testing my Terra on a trip that was close to 3000 miles.
Sharing this great trip was my wife on her Versys with a 19" front wheel conversion. We left southern Oregon headed south on I5, pounding pavement, crossing into Mexico at Mexicali, reaching San Felipe after 2.5 days covering about 1200 miles. First night in Baja we camped here:
Running the Interstate at 75 to 80 mph loaded with gear brought the gas-mileage on the Terra down from my usual 55mpg to about 44mpg. Still pretty good, but with the small tank that meant I had to start looking for a gas station after 130 miles, which became rather annoying. On a good note that meant I could give my gluteus maximus a break from hurting on the sucky factory seat.
Left San Felipe next morning and headed for Alfonsinas at Gonzaga Bay for two days of fun in the sun.
Hwy 5 is paved now past Puertecitos and it is a beautiful ride:
The wind started really blowing during the day, making riding in a straight line hard and blowing huge clouds of sand across the road, cutting visibility to a few yards.
Because of the sand storm we almost missed the driveway to Alfonsinas, a Motel with Restaurant and camping on the beach under Palapes.
Decided to take a room instead of camping because of the wind.
Met these two guys at Alfonsinas:
Jon and Andrew from the UK on an around the world trip on there KTM 690's. They left England in March and headed east through Russia, Mongolia and Siberia from thgere flying with the bikes to Vancouver, then they rode down the Coast Hwy1/101 to Baja.
Great guys, we had a few beer together that night and they shared some of there stories from there great road trip.
We also shared the hotel with lots of those guys:
Baja 1000 race pre-runs were in full swing. This is Monster Energy Team 2, using a $60 000 buggy for the pre-run to save their Trophy Truck for the race. Part of our route was the course of the 2013 Baja 1000 race and we would get passed by Baja buggy's and Trucks doing well over 70 mph on the dirt/rock/boulder/sand-road towards Cocos Corner that we could go barely 10mph with the loaded bikes.
Made it to Cocos:
The SW-Motech racks on Caitlin's Versys where not up to the roads in Baja. The BRmoto racks on the Terra held up great. Roadside repair:
Headed from there to MX 1 and turned north. Spent another two nights on the Pacific coast before leaving Mexico at Tecate towards home. Great trip, the Terra held up great pounding blacktop and doing Baja dirt roads. We will explore more of Mexico next year with larger fuel capacity and a comfier seat for the Terra and perhaps a TR650 for Caitlin too?
Every year in September/October we get to pick those:
With those:
Harvest lasts about six weeks, 7 days a week, the workday starts when we need to and stops when we are done. 16 hour days are not unusual.
Decided to take a week off after harvest and head to Baja, Mexico for RnR and testing my Terra on a trip that was close to 3000 miles.
Sharing this great trip was my wife on her Versys with a 19" front wheel conversion. We left southern Oregon headed south on I5, pounding pavement, crossing into Mexico at Mexicali, reaching San Felipe after 2.5 days covering about 1200 miles. First night in Baja we camped here:
Running the Interstate at 75 to 80 mph loaded with gear brought the gas-mileage on the Terra down from my usual 55mpg to about 44mpg. Still pretty good, but with the small tank that meant I had to start looking for a gas station after 130 miles, which became rather annoying. On a good note that meant I could give my gluteus maximus a break from hurting on the sucky factory seat.
Left San Felipe next morning and headed for Alfonsinas at Gonzaga Bay for two days of fun in the sun.
Hwy 5 is paved now past Puertecitos and it is a beautiful ride:
The wind started really blowing during the day, making riding in a straight line hard and blowing huge clouds of sand across the road, cutting visibility to a few yards.
Because of the sand storm we almost missed the driveway to Alfonsinas, a Motel with Restaurant and camping on the beach under Palapes.
Decided to take a room instead of camping because of the wind.
Met these two guys at Alfonsinas:
Jon and Andrew from the UK on an around the world trip on there KTM 690's. They left England in March and headed east through Russia, Mongolia and Siberia from thgere flying with the bikes to Vancouver, then they rode down the Coast Hwy1/101 to Baja.
Great guys, we had a few beer together that night and they shared some of there stories from there great road trip.
We also shared the hotel with lots of those guys:
Baja 1000 race pre-runs were in full swing. This is Monster Energy Team 2, using a $60 000 buggy for the pre-run to save their Trophy Truck for the race. Part of our route was the course of the 2013 Baja 1000 race and we would get passed by Baja buggy's and Trucks doing well over 70 mph on the dirt/rock/boulder/sand-road towards Cocos Corner that we could go barely 10mph with the loaded bikes.
Made it to Cocos:
The SW-Motech racks on Caitlin's Versys where not up to the roads in Baja. The BRmoto racks on the Terra held up great. Roadside repair:
Headed from there to MX 1 and turned north. Spent another two nights on the Pacific coast before leaving Mexico at Tecate towards home. Great trip, the Terra held up great pounding blacktop and doing Baja dirt roads. We will explore more of Mexico next year with larger fuel capacity and a comfier seat for the Terra and perhaps a TR650 for Caitlin too?