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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Pics Of Your 630!

DYNOBOB said:
Blurb book is sweet. (although he kinda made you sound like a noob to riding offroad?).
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My first day riding offroad was Jan 2011! Did the half TAT in June 2011, and since then two New Zealand trips, several training courses, and a bunch of smaller trips, so yes, still a noob!
 
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Easter run on Sailsbury Plain, England. The unexploded debris sign is in the village of Imber which was closed in WW2 for the US army to practice house to house fighting before D-Day. The residents were given 47 days notice to leave. The village is open a few days a year and a friend organises a charity ride over the plain with lunch in the village. Was a bit warmer than the Christmas ride where it was around 22 F when we set off - you don't want to drop it in the water that day.
 
20150514_155734.jpg20150515_105727.jpgDSCF6620.JPG Hi, A buddy and I just completed 1500km on gravel roads on Northern Vancouver Island. It was the North Island BC section of the TCAT (Trans Canada Adventure Trail)http://graveltravel.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=83:tcat-the-island&catid=1 . I did some mods on the bike over the winter to give me more fuel range (Safari tank :thumbsup:) and built a tool tube for where the former exhaust can resided. I was trying to move some of the weight forward and down. Our original plan was to do the entire Vancouver Island ride but the first day and night were going to be a soaker farther south so we headed North and once North decided we could come back and complete the southern portion, so we did some extra side trips in the North up to Cape Scott and Tahsis. Just a couple of glamour shots of the bike. The Hepco Becker cans were used to get the weight low, if I had used my Wolfman bags the load would have been higher. I camped off the bike for 11 days with a refuel and food about every 3 days. Meeting the loaded logging trucks were interesting but the unloaded were scarier because of the speed they travel. My buddy with the KLR was envious of the light weight and compact load. The bike was perfect and it never needed a nap either!
 
I had to cut off part of the lower mount and bend and weld up some flat stock to fit the narrow space between the tank and fork. Took me a few bends to get it right. Glad I went to the effort to keep the windshield. I had also previously made up brackets to raise the windshield (6'4") and be able to remove the windshield without disturbing the fork bolts. 20150531_221138.jpg20150531_221153.jpg20150531_221306.jpg
 
Sweet! Three days on one tank - so about 100 miles a day, or did you have extra reserves? Any trip report coming? I'm curious how the KLR held up compared to the 630?
 
Hi,
this is my first post to Cafehusky. I bought my self Husky couple of months ago and it has been just fun to ride :). I have had only street bikes before, but man I like this machine!

Regards,
Pete from Finland.

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I managed to avoid the storm. A bunch of lightning in them clouds!

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bushwa said:
This the righ
kirbybikes said:
View attachment 56305View attachment 56306View attachment 56307 Hi, A buddy and I just completed 1500km on gravel roads on Northern Vancouver Island. It was the North Island BC section of the TCAT (Trans Canada Adventure Trail)http://graveltravel.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=83:tcat-the-island&catid=1 . I did some mods on the bike over the winter to give me more fuel range (Safari tank :thumbsup:) and built a tool tube for where the former exhaust can resided. I was trying to move some of the weight forward and down. Our original plan was to do the entire Vancouver Island ride but the first day and night were going to be a soaker farther south so we headed North and once North decided we could come back and complete the southern portion, so we did some extra side trips in the North up to Cape Scott and Tahsis. Just a couple of glamour shots of the bike. The Hepco Becker cans were used to get the weight low, if I had used my Wolfman bags the load would have been higher. I camped off the bike for 11 days with a refuel and food about every 3 days. Meeting the loaded logging trucks were interesting but the unloaded were scarier because of the speed they travel. My buddy with the KLR was envious of the light weight and compact load. The bike was perfect and it never needed a nap either!
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Nice Im doing the Calgary Cali trip on mine in 6 Weeks . Going to Yosemite
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3 days riding the 2015 Moose Run in Colorado.
First time I take the 630 off-road. It did surprisingly well. As expected, a bit heavy on single tracks, and the suspension could use more compression damping when you turn the speed up. But a very capable bike. Best part was flying by the gazillions of KTMs on the road back to camp. 92mph


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