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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Picked this one up recently, a couple of mods, front lights and screen and rear light. Having a blast riding it in the Ochoco's.View attachment 102807
Which front headlight is that?
First of all Sal_thee_man, awesome first Dual Sport adventure, you're living the life! Great Pic's also!
The headlight setup on my bike came from me, what I mean from that is I didn't like the wind blast from the stock headlight, it directed the wind right into the bottom of my helmet (chin area). I don't do real long stretches on the tar but anything over 40 mph sucked, so something had to be done! I watched a video from a guy in OZ who built his own sort of "Rally" screen setup, that motivated me to build my own. Aluminum from Home Depot a screen off of ebay and some lights from amazon, some simple hand tools and a few extra hours of free time and there it was. It works better than I had hoped for in getting the wind blast off my chest and chin, the air around my helmet is clean all the way up to 75 mph. BAM! now the bike is a highway bike, well not really, knobbies suck at speed.
Recently did a 4-week 3600-mile road trip through Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana. This is my first ever dual sport and the trip was my first time riding off road.
Very cool pictures.Recently did a 4-week 3600-mile road trip through Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana. This is my first ever dual sport and the trip was my first time riding off road. Had a helleva time, it's hard to jump back onto my Ducati 748 now!
Here are some photos
Top of Ophir Pass
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Other side of Ophir Pass
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Heading towards Moab
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Moab, Utah
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Near the Yellow Mines, Utah
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Caribou National Park, Idaho
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West Yellowstone, MT
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Farm Road 170 (River Road), Big Bend State Park TX
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Some trail, Big Bend State Park TX
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your photos are beautiful. what tires do you use? they have a design that I like