• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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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Last month took the Strada for an overnight adventure ride out past Bendigo in Victoria with a bunch of guys on DR650s a couple of Teneres, Vstroms a Beemer and a Terra who's owner may be a member on here.
My Strada is basically stock apart from a bashplate and a K60 up front and have to say it handled the rough stuff with ease. Plan on adding crashbars and handguards soon....until then I'll just have to try not to drop it.
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nice ride nice bike , k60 at front, what's at the back ,warming up for the big trip after the wet,tyres tyres are the ones that are so important, safe rides , go husky!
 
Hey ces thanks, it's just a tourance on the rear and to be honest for that ride a tourance on the front probably would've been fine but put a k60 on the front just incase. Would be a very different story if it was wet. I'm planning on putting a k60 on the rear soon hopefully heading up to the high country where the extra grip will come in handy.
 
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Ken Webb and I out on the Bonneville Salt Flats. As you can see, it is too wet to see what a fully loaded Terra will do at full tilt. The races were cancelled here as well. We rode some washed out roads to get here. Massive amounts of rain caused us to reroute our trip a little, but the weather is perfect now! image.jpg
 
rockyrida said:
Hey ces thanks, it's just a tourance on the rear and to be honest for that ride a tourance on the front probably would've been fine but put a k60 on the front just incase. Would be a very different story if it was wet. I'm planning on putting a k60 on the rear soon hopefully heading up to the high country where the extra grip will come in handy.
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ta rocky , heading towards comboyne early tomorrow, sealed,fast and twisted .the metzes are getting a workout, fun on a husky!
 
Today it was nice wheater and I wanted to ride a few hours in my neighbourhood. I took my cellphone and took some pictures, because this topic is my favorite to look in here.

First I ride along the channel and I captured this boat.

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Well that was my first post including a photo.

Regards, John
 
Here I passed a Dutch windmill in Borkel en Schaft.

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I also tried my first non tarmac road and some went ok, if they are quite hard. I did also end up in a very sandy road and then the bike start to "move sideways" or "wobble". Lucky I did not go down.
Well it is clear to me now, no frontbrake use, stand on the bike and let it slowly roll and hold the steering bar tight. Sandy roads and me are no match, I am a street kinda guy. Therefore I decided for the Strada instead of the Terra.

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I bought the Strada, not the Terra as I almost never drive dirt raods in here. For me I enjoy the tarmac road even if they have a lot of speed bumps to reduce the speed.

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I also enjoy the afternoon with sun, some cake from the bakery and I passed the bear brewery of Dommelsch in NL.

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Please note that Husqvarna is actually older then Dommelsch because they started 1689 with weapons for the Swedisch army.
Not many brands can look back on 110 / 111 years history for building bikes, in Sweden and Italy.

Regards, John
 
John there are many resources on the web regarding riding in sand. They will all tell you to keep a very loose grip on the bars, stand up but put your rear end as far back as you can . Make small inputs to steering letting the bike dance around under you and keep hard on the throttle. This allows efficient sand riding. Check the riders position at 2:58 on this youtube video.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQBTnhHzthU#t=183
 
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Coffee said:
Mildly curious as to how far and where you might be taking your new found joy...

For instance, anyone touring California?
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Thank you coffe for your dedication to all of us loyal husky owners. hope to be able to buy you a cup of coffee some day when passing by. Lots of great stuff done here.
 
DRZcharlie,

Thanks for your video post, it is exactly what they say in there, I am a control freak. I did it wrong and I feel very uncortable that the bike dance under me and search for his own way. Also to keep some speed difficult for me. I am just not born talent for sandy roads, but maybe if I do it more often it what the guy say, practise makes perfect.

Greetz form Belgium, John

P.S. It was Eric Geboers who won many titels in motocross right ? Also many other Dutch and Belgium MX riders.
 
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P.S. It was Eric Geboers who won many titels in motocross right ? Also many other Dutch and Belgium MX riders.
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Eric Geboers, Joel Robert, Joel Smets, Georges Jobe, Stefan Everts, ... but the most impressive is probably Gaston Rahier. The guy was so small he could hardly see over the seat of his Dakar bike:
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DRZcharlie,

Thanks for your video post, it is exactly what they say in there, I am a control freak. I did it wrong and I feel very uncortable that the bike dance under me and search for his own way. Also to keep some speed difficult for me. I am just not born talent for sandy roads, but maybe if I do it more often it what the guy say, practise makes perfect.

Greetz form Belgium, John

P.S. It was Eric Geboers who won many titels in motocross right ? Also many other Dutch and Belgium MX riders.
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Be careful and take a friend along for the practice. That is exactly what I was doing, taking lessons from U toob, and crashed and broke my ankle/leg. Just slow down. The Terra is not really made for deep sand. It can do it, but dang, be careful, get a good front tire, the stock one will hurt you bad.
 
well I just come back from north east spanish pirinees. GIRONA. here i can let you out some photos. Bewildering green and amazing country.10712532_843293915701364_9099398251924231278_o.jpg

more than 1.000km alongside Gerona mountains.
 

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Long Ride Canberra to Sale.jpg A number of friends were passing through town on the way to Uluru (middle of Oz) from Canberra, they are riding to raise awareness for prostate cancer. Joined them for a few hours, close to 100 bikes and a police escort - great day out.

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dear "terra"ble belgium twin,

well i understand that you get a Terra, you not driving on roads, but trough rivers and stones. I already used your tripinfo for my trip to the Dolomites. The train can bring me to Bolzano, while i eat andsleep. Being a tarmac cowboy i will use "zimmer frei" no tents,but for sure i will post some nice pics as well.

very nice to share info and you have great pics about Kroatia too.

regards, John
 
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dear "terra"ble belgium twin,

well i understand that you get a Terra, you not driving on roads, but trough rivers and stones. I already used your tripinfo for my trip to the Dolomites. The train can bring me to Bolzano, while i eat andsleep. Being a tarmac cowboy i will use "zimmer frei" no tents,but for sure i will post some nice pics as well.

very nice to share info and you have great pics about Kroatia too.
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Thanks for your comments, John. It is appreciated.

As for the car train, Deutsch Bahn has been cutting in their offering for the car trains for a few years now. Last year they stopped the Berlin to Villach line and there were rumors that more cuts would follow for the 2015 season.
I hope to use their services again next year for a planned trip through the Carpathians (Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Hungary). But until they post up their summer 2015 planning I won't be sure that will be possible.
 
Crossing the border into Baja Mexico at Algodones (near Yuma) in a couple days for a month long trip down to Cabo San Lucas and back with side trips to many of the beaches and fishing villages on the Sea of Cortez. I used to sail down there so to goal is to revisit the anchorages we stayed in. Here's some pics of the bike setup with my new "Mosko" panniers and the AltRider crashbar bags. I'll do a ride report after I finish the trip.

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