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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Yesterday, somewhere in the Ukrainian Carpathians:

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duibhceK said:
All packed up and ready to set off again. A few small items still to be tied to the bike tomorrow evening and than on Saturday we're off for 3 weeks of exploring through the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine and Poland!
Very excited to say the least! :banana:
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Sounds fantastic! Enjoy, take lotsa pics and come back to share those photos!
 
duibhceK said:
All packed up and ready to set off again. A few small items still to be tied to the bike tomorrow evening and than on Saturday we're off for 3 weeks of exploring through the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine and Poland!
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Judging from your last ride report I cannot wait to see and read the next one.
 
nev.. said:
Judging from your last ride report I cannot wait to see and read the next one.
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Thanks. We are planning to do a report for this trip as well.
But if you are counting on lots of soft/off-road like last year you might be a bit disappointed. The roads we're taking this year are mostly tarmac (or used to be tarmac when Stalin was still around in case of Ukraine) and a lot more "cultural" stops along the way. It is a different kind of trip, but we are still enjoying it very much (now in Krakow, Poland btw).
 
First big trip on the TR was a relative success! What a ride it was.
Portland OR, south through Sierra Nevadas, 139 across Death Valley, Las Vegas, and back again.
The Husky ran like shit, as always, but never failed me. I need to do something about the crap fuel map...
The Valley was so hot that the finish bubbled on the side of the airbox, the helmet cam mount melted and the cam fell off, the anti-glare strip under the visor pealed, my GPS and phone both overheated and failed. The worst part was the fuel tank venting violently at every fuel stop, I had to be very cautions opening the tank after the first petrol shower.
I drank 2 litres of water before getting across the valley and vomited when I stopped in Furnace Creek, heat exhaustion, I guess.
But what an amazing place, the roads were great and the views were amazing.
I stopped outside of FC and had two coyotes walk up 30 feet from me, too bad both my cameras were ruined. Poor guys looked so miserable, I poured a spare litre of water into a dip in the ground when I left, I hope they got it before it evaporated. It's crazy how the ground can be so dry and yet not absorb water.
I think I will stick to the Pacific Northwest for a while, I don't like the heat.
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duibhceK said:
Just got back from our 3 weeks and almost 6000km tour through eastern Europe, taking in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine and Poland. We had a great time so I wanted to share some of our pics.
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It's an amazingly "interesting" part of the World, the magnificent buildings, the history, the people - I particularly enjoyed Slovakia & Prague
 
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