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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Toward the end of the very first DS ride I had ever been on (special thanks to the ADVRider guys for breaking me in nicely):
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Same stop as the photo in my earlier post, just not panoramic:
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My "heat shield" for my Giant Loop, which is just a couple of muffler sliders:
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510 Footpegs are a direct fit:
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Pikes Peak summit:
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The back side of Cottonwood Pass, after riding over the Continental Divide:
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Crossing the Royal Gorge Bridge:
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Local riding (yes, it floods often enough that there's a permanent sign for it):
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Roads cut right into the hills:
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As tempting as it is, I don't believe it's legal to ride this trail:
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Trying out the new cold weather gear (which works great, by the way):
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In commuter mode. Just added the Zeta handguards and the topcase is a Givi E470. It is a little big, but the main point of it was to provide a solid backrest for my daughter when she rides with me. From some angles it really looks like a nice fit, others like the bike sprung a massive color-matched tumor on its ass...

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Thank you for the great pics. I love the hand guard/mirror setup. What are they and where did you get them?
 
rocko said:
What are you using? I get cold really easily and could use some new gear!
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Sidi Crossfire SRS Boots
Tourmaster Caliber Pants
Tourmaster Transition Series 2 Jacket
Tourmaster Fleece Glove Liners
Icon Patrol Waterproof Gloves
Go Athletic Apparel base layer (cheaper than Underarmor, pants, shirt, balaclava, neck gaiter)

I get cold easily as well. That setup is waterproof and good down into the low 40s. In the photo, it was right about freezing. I may have had some sweats on top of the base layer; I can't remember for sure.
 
Ketek said:
I love those boots, worth every penny :D
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Don't I know it. I've been a huge Sidi fan since I bought my first pair of mountain bike shoes from them. At first, I went cheap with some Fly MX boots, but I hated wearing them. The Crossfires fit like a glove right out of the box. I can wear them all day long without any discomfort.
 
If you are a cold weather rider or are thinking about it you owe it to yourself to try heated gear. I ride year round in NY as long as the roads aren't iced. Did a 3 hour trip in 20 degree weather once. Adding passive layers relies on your own body heat to be retained and if it gets cold enough you are so bundled up it takes you 20 minutes to get ready and you start sweating until you get moving along in the cold. I use a heated jacket liner down to about 40 degrees and then add the pant liner below. I routinely head off to work in a t-shirt, the liner and my motorcycle jacket in the middle of december. The liner can generate so much heat it is impossible to get cold, provided you have the juice to run it. With a 360 watt alternator on these things you won't have any problem running the full suit even with extra headlights and accessories.
 
ContraHusky said:
Testing my SM wheels...

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Hey! You left out the fun stuff going down the hill towards the golf course! :D

Fun to see this here on CH. I spent many a mile on those roads. I got my first up close and personal taste of asphalt on Pinehurst many many years ago :lol:

I'm guessing most folks would never think that Oakland looks like this :)

Thanks for posting it up!
 
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