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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

I can boast a massive 642m on the Midland Highway here. Highest mountain in Tasmania, Mt Ossa is 1617m (5305 ft) and you can't drive there. Highest pass I've been through would be in NZ at around 1300 odd (I think) metres.
 
There are some more peaks around here, although I don't think I can beat 10,842 without a decent 3 hour drive. But.. I can get close locally :).
 
HuskyDude said:
Yet another opportunity for a photo contest per se...

Geiger Summit 6789 ft. (2072m)

Next.

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On July 28 during our Continental Divide trip we crossed the Indiana Pass, in south Colorado, which is 11,950 ft. It was 45 degrees, raining and foggy with visibility of about 50 ft. We were cold and wet and just wanted to get off that mountain so missed the chance to get a picture. I will say that even at that elevation the Terra never missed a beat and kept on cranking. I did do a Montana GPS screen save so can show that in my ride report when I get back home in a week or so.
 
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pkplex said:
Some random lake, South Island of New Zealand
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I reckon the south island of New Zealand is one of the places that the Terra was just made for. I spent a couple of weeks riding around there on an XT660 (this trip was the one which convinced me that I needed a bike like the Terra, and resulted in me buying the Terra). So many great gravel roads to be explored there and considering how small the place actually is, we rode for several weeks barely seeing any other people except when we went into towns at night.
 
nev.. said:
I reckon the south island of New Zealand is one of the places that the Terra was just made for. I spent a couple of weeks riding around there on an XT660 (this trip was the one which convinced me that I needed a bike like the Terra, and resulted in me buying the Terra). So many great gravel roads to be explored there and considering how small the place actually is, we rode for several weeks barely seeing any other people except when we went into towns at night.
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Yeah it's pretty boss :) I might have to get some better tires, the stock Terra rubber seems to be pretty loose in the mud or on slimy/moss like surfaces. Just vaguely thinking about accelerating seems to make the back spin out, especially when the ground is not flat.

Still not certain how to deal with loose gravel stuff yet either. No problem going slow on it, but I don't quite know what to expect going fast-ish around loose gravel corners. I found just relaxing on the straights it kind of just moves around a bit and plops into its favorite area of the road, perhaps it might be a case of going with whatever happens on the corners.. provided it's the rear which moves around, and not the front.
 
nev.. said:
Just saw in an old thread that FabOneUp posted a photo of his first Terra on Pikes Peak with the 14,110 ft Summit sign !
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I knew I wasn't the only one to go there, I did that on a beemer years and years ago. Cold as hell even in mid summer.
 
I had no idea until my wife happened to stumble on their address. This is not going to be good for my wallet. I pass by nearly every day. Had to get something while I was there. They weren't even done making it yet, and finished it up as I paid. Wasn't I saying something about soft bags for adventure travel?

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mag00 said:
I knew I wasn't the only one to go there, I did that on a beemer years and years ago. Cold as hell even in mid summer.
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It's a great road, although mildly frightening with some of the endless drops off the side, and the lightheadedness you get once you start approaching the summit. I was lucky enough to ride up there a few years ago, when mile 11-18 were still dirt.
 
Well I went on another ride over the weekend and took some primitive video. If you have some time to spare check it out (not very exciting).

Dirt road with some gravel and ruts following a TW200 then we pass a couple Vstroms and reach pavement. I pass the TW200 and reach the lake after a small mishap.


View: http://youtu.be/m0mlxjG3z1E
 
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