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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Nice! Digging your setup Fab. Black looks cool and that windshield is killer. Looking forward to hearing how that works. Cheers! P.S. you holding out for the "right" skidplate too?[/quote]
 
HARDER1 said:
Nice! Digging your setup Fab. Black looks cool and that windshield is killer. Looking forward to hearing how that works. Cheers! P.S. you holding out for the "right" skidplate too?
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Thanks! The windscreen works even better than I had hoped. It makes the bike even more pleasant to ride....I have my own little world behind there! I really notice how sweet the bike sounds now too.

I am holding out for my brain to come up with a good idea for a skid plate. I am determined to make my own. Carbon fiber and chromoly tubing are probably going to be my materials of choice. The Speedbrain Dakar bike has something like what I want. The Motosportz skid would be my first choice if I was to buy one. If my time runs out before spring, then I may well have a Motosportz plate.

Now...I just have to get a good bar set up like yours! That will be next.
 
Nice break in the Weather in Portland today. Testing out the new high fender on the Strada.

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Managed to get 150 miles of exploring in with only about 20 minutes of rain.
 
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ScottinAZ, can I request a pic of the Terra next to a saguaro? I love that country down there and envy the above ride. I think I want to somewhat duplicate it here in Colorado and also post the drastic change in climate change within an hour. The weather here may be too harsh now, but we will see. I have ridden the road from Tuscan to the top of Mount Lemmon and that was also a dramatic climate change....but only in about 15 minutes. I have only street ridden in AZ. I can't imagine how fantastic the off road riding is there.
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Took the Terra out to Bartlett Lake area, North East of Phoenix. I must admit I love the Terra but took her a bit out of her element today, 10 miles of sandwash!! I could hardly keep her on two wheels, but managed by just gassin' it, like you have to do on the sand dunes, def shows her weight on this kind of terrain. Nonetheless enjoyed every minute of it. Into the canyon I went, getting more narrow by the second, and looking at all the critter prints on the ground this is a highway for them, just hoping not to run into one of the Big Cats known to be in the area coming around the next bend. Made it out safely. FabOneUp, your picture of the Terra near a saguaro is "sort of" there..
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FabOneUp, your picture of the Terra near a saguaro is "sort of" there..[/quote]

Nice! Thanks. That will have to hold me over till I can get one of my own! I think maybe you can hold your own with the Terra if you did 10 miles of sand wash.:)
 
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[quote="scottinAZ, post: 281055, member: 11051"
FabOneUp, your picture of the Terra near a saguaro is "sort of" there..
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Nice! Thanks. That will have to hold me over till I can get one of my own! I think maybe you can hold your own with the Terra if you did 10 miles of sand wash.:)[/quote]terraride 017.JPG
Theres a Saguaro back there!!
 
You lot in the States are nuts! I've never seen snow like that and many of us stop riding when it gets below 10 or 12C (around 50F) but then I know I'm not really set up for the cold.
 
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You lot in the States are nuts! I've never seen snow like that and many of us stop riding when it gets below 10 or 12C (around 50F) but then I know I'm not really set up for the cold.
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It really is all about what you wear. I have a great snowmobile suit that I use. Got rid of the sleds, but kept the suit for just such occasions. Ski goggles that won't fog are a must also.
 
FabOneUp said:
It really is all about what you wear. I have a great snowmobile suit that I use. Got rid of the sleds, but kept the suit for just such occasions. Ski goggles that won't fog are a must also.
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Great point. And it is about the time of year when the cold weather clothing might be at reduced prices at sled & ski shops.
 
Coffee said:
Great point. And it is about the time of year when the cold weather clothing might be at reduced prices at sled & ski shops.
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50% Off at Big D Motorsports! They are our local Arctic Cat snowmobile dealer. They are clearing out snowmobile gear and making room for Husky ride gear. I would imagine all sled dealers are similar.
 
Had to Bump this thread:
Me, Dad, Brother, and Friend Jeff went for a 185 mi ride yesterday. The snow is melting a lot quicker this year!:banana: It was a great day to get out for some exploration and play some GPS Bingo. Ended up doing an really fun traverse that kept us off the pavement most of the day. Some pics:
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This was a good day. Several dirt, mud, snow, and slush miles. Mostly mud. I have built a Rally bike. I wish I had a helmet cam to post movies instead of pics. This is an extremely capable machine as it sits. The tire diggs into anything! The motor grunts through everything. I stick to the Pivot Pegz, even in all the mud. I love this bike!


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