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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Out and About (Terra, Strada)

Well I couldn't wait any longer for the weather to buck up, so I took the Terra out onto some of my easier local trails today.....it was surprisingly good ( although the limitations of the road biased tyres certainly made itself known..) the standing position was very comfy for me and the suspension coped with the ruts and bumps which werent particularly extreme but it did seem to soak them up... the heavy flywheel meant the bike just plodded through the mud just so long as the fron wheel could find some grip....it may not be an all out enduro / trail bike but I cant think of many places that I use that i wouldnt be prepared to have a go at (in the dry or with a better set of off road tyres.......
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I'm out of town for work, and since I knew I'd have some downtime, I rode the bike instead of caging it. Today I did a little cemetery exploration in the backwoods of Georgia. I found some neat spots out in the woods.









Red clay was the bane of my existence today. The local potters just call it "slip" and now I know why. I am NOT good at riding in this stuff, and the K60 was struggling. I had a lot of close calls. I was by myself, so after the 5th near miss, I decided I better get back to the hardball and hit the hotel. I'm going to be sore tomorrow!
 
Krussel,

Nice pics. I've ridden most of the paved roads near your route, but not the back dirt roads around Detroit Lake and the branch off of FR46 to Hwy26. I see you've decided to keep the Terra and sell the Strada. I'm going to switch to Heidenau's when my stock Strada tires wear out - if ever. I can see by your post that I need to learn more about the Montana GPS too.
 
Had to test out the Wuka plug today, so I did a run out to a lake on Mt. Hood that I had not seen previously. About 100 miles of pavement, 25 miles of gravel and 15 miles of dirt and rocks. That, and a short walk, were rewarded with my own private lake in a national forest...

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Passed a nice meadow on the way back...

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Enjoyed the road a bunch...

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I went on two rides this weekend. Both of them were on the same trail. The first one was a scouting ride so I could figure out if the lady-friend could handle it. The second was with the lady-friend. The trail we did is about 10 min outside of Reno, NV. It starts in Toiyabe National Forest and goes through Tahoe National Forest. Our destination was Stampede Reservoir which is close to Truckee, CA. This was her first trail ride and I am very proud of her (oh and the girlfriend too ;) ). The Terra however did lose its tail (pics below). The lady-friend road our trusty Yamaha TW200.

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Just got back from my 11 day, 3500km ride around southern Western Australia. We had roo's, bird strike, mud, sand, heavy rain, tankslappers on a beach, high winds, sunny days, freezing temp's and camels to contend with. Put that together with plenty of scotch, good company, laughter and natural stupidity and you have a truly great ride.

Overall the Terra was great, much better than the rider could deliver. Tyre selection was all wrong though as knobblies would have been better.

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Terra went fine, but - broke my left mirror mount in a fall, lost rear brake fluid reservoir cap, cable ties holding rear fender to the frame snapped, rear brake light lens busted, rear rack bolts sheared off & lost footpeg retaining pin. I cable tied the rear fender to my rack to try & reduce the rear movement. It worked pretty well for a while too.

The going was tough and it was either slow & very slippery or 'ears pinned back' speed over corrugations. I can't wait to do it again :banana: Hopefully next time I will have a beefier rear rack option in place before I go. Until then, I will carry a wider range of cable ties!

 
I used the Rotopax but it was only "Just in case" as I would have reached the next fuel stop anyway. The other container was for the thirsty KTM which got about 13km per litre, although with a 25L tank he never needed the extra. It always pays to have a "just in case" when you're out in the bush even though we planned each day around obtainable fuel supply.
 
I used the Rotopax but it was only "Just in case" as I would have reached the next fuel stop anyway. The other container was for the thirsty KTM which got about 13km per litre, although with a 25L tank he never needed the extra. It always pays to have a "just in case" when you're out in the bush even though we planned each day around obtainable fuel supply.

WTF? Make him carry his own damn fuel!
 
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