• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Post up pictures of your 4 stroke bikes!

Apri11 said:
Sceep,what are the green helmet covers for, never seen them before?
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Jimmy250 said:
Are you guys working for the forest service, if so that's a cool gig.
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Our local Forest has a "Trail Ambassador" program. We're unpaid volunteers and are provided with FS Jerseys, Helmet socks, and Wolfman saddlebags(not pictured) for carrying maps, first aid kits, etc. We have no law enforcement capability. We're basically just there to spread awareness of the OHV program in the state. We hand out maps, check for registration stickers and let them know that they must have them, Talk with the hikers, mtn bikers, and horsemen and let them know that we aren't their enemy. We also report on trail conditions and where fallen trees or washouts have occurred. clear trees if possible without needing to get the sawyers out. Keep an eye out for any illegal activity or unattended fires and call in LEO or FD as necessary.

Its a pretty sweet gig, we can write off our gasoline, safety equipment, oil, chain lube etc consumed while on patrol. Its really amazing the different attitude cranky hikers have when you roll up on them with FS garb on, and stop to talk with them for a few minutes. It's definitely been a positive thing for our local forest that has pretty much been a free-for-all for decades, and now with the new MVUM's and state registration requirements we have to keep everyone informed. NM BLM has just instituted a similar program and a few of us will likely be doing double duty with them. We currently have 5 Trail Ambassadors working our trail system.
 
Sceep said:
Our local Forest has a "Trail Ambassador" program. We're unpaid volunteers and are provided with FS Jerseys, Helmet socks, and Wolfman saddlebags(not pictured) for carrying maps, first aid kits, etc. We have no law enforcement capability. We're basically just there to spread awareness of the OHV program in the state. We hand out maps, check for registration stickers and let them know that they must have them, Talk with the hikers, mtn bikers, and horsemen and let them know that we aren't their enemy. We also report on trail conditions and where fallen trees or washouts have occurred. clear trees if possible without needing to get the sawyers out. Keep an eye out for any illegal activity or unattended fires and call in LEO or FD as necessary.

Its a pretty sweet gig, we can write off our gasoline, safety equipment, oil, chain lube etc consumed while on patrol. Its really amazing the different attitude cranky hikers have when you roll up on them with FS garb on, and stop to talk with them for a few minutes. It's definitely been a positive thing for our local forest that has pretty much been a free-for-all for decades, and now with the new MVUM's and state registration requirements we have to keep everyone informed. NM BLM has just instituted a similar program and a few of us will likely be doing double duty with them. We currently have 5 Trail Ambassadors working our trail system.
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Awesome program and how it should be :cheers::thumbsup:
 
Here is my new 4 stroke :D

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Thumperama said:
I had a 79 XT500 for my first bike. I hated kick starting that thing.
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this one was not running when I bought it for cheap. Cleaned the points and fixed the broken spark plug cap and it fires right up EZ. Get it over TDC and give it a kick and it is running.
 
I could probably make that happen sometime in the next year. LOL. i have a friend that travels around the country delivering cars and parts.
 
Sceep said:
Our local Forest has a "Trail Ambassador" program. We're unpaid volunteers and are provided with FS Jerseys, Helmet socks, and Wolfman saddlebags(not pictured) for carrying maps, first aid kits, etc. We have no law enforcement capability. We're basically just there to spread awareness of the OHV program in the state. We hand out maps, check for registration stickers and let them know that they must have them, Talk with the hikers, mtn bikers, and horsemen and let them know that we aren't their enemy. We also report on trail conditions and where fallen trees or washouts have occurred. clear trees if possible without needing to get the sawyers out. Keep an eye out for any illegal activity or unattended fires and call in LEO or FD as necessary.

Its a pretty sweet gig, we can write off our gasoline, safety equipment, oil, chain lube etc consumed while on patrol. Its really amazing the different attitude cranky hikers have when you roll up on them with FS garb on, and stop to talk with them for a few minutes. It's definitely been a positive thing for our local forest that has pretty much been a free-for-all for decades, and now with the new MVUM's and state registration requirements we have to keep everyone informed. NM BLM has just instituted a similar program and a few of us will likely be doing double duty with them. We currently have 5 Trail Ambassadors working our trail system.
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Very Nice! I have a cabin in Ruidoso, NM. Went to ride there for the first time this last weekend, wonder if they have a similar program.
 
Sceep said:
Our local Forest has a "Trail Ambassador" program. We're unpaid volunteers and are provided with FS Jerseys, Helmet socks, and Wolfman saddlebags(not pictured) for carrying maps, first aid kits, etc. We have no law enforcement capability. We're basically just there to spread awareness of the OHV program in the state. We hand out maps, check for registration stickers and let them know that they must have them, Talk with the hikers, mtn bikers, and horsemen and let them know that we aren't their enemy. We also report on trail conditions and where fallen trees or washouts have occurred. clear trees if possible without needing to get the sawyers out. Keep an eye out for any illegal activity or unattended fires and call in LEO or FD as necessary.

Its a pretty sweet gig, we can write off our gasoline, safety equipment, oil, chain lube etc consumed while on patrol. Its really amazing the different attitude cranky hikers have when you roll up on them with FS garb on, and stop to talk with them for a few minutes. It's definitely been a positive thing for our local forest that has pretty much been a free-for-all for decades, and now with the new MVUM's and state registration requirements we have to keep everyone informed. NM BLM has just instituted a similar program and a few of us will likely be doing double duty with them. We currently have 5 Trail Ambassadors working our trail system.
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That is so Great guys! keep up the good work! I would be all over that if that program was around here! Best wishes and Happy Trails!
 
Another (Hot! 32C in the shade) day out at the track. First time out after shattering my collar bone back in April.

Bike went well apart from a bit of oil in the airbox, and fuel out the fuel tank overflow (note to self, don't brim the tank when it's so damn hot... Also had some chatter from the front end, ohlins on the rear worked flawlessly, now I just need to get faster!

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TITO said:
Beautiful!!
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It was hard to ride there without looking around at the scenery... Its so raw out there ... Those pics are from the central part of the island west of Cebu City ... These are are tallest mountains on the island ... 3,009' is about the tallest ... Here's a pic of a lake (Lake Malubog?) that is further S/SW from where these pics are taken ... You can just see the corner of it on the right side of the pic and I think it is in the same valley. I'll be heading on over there later ...
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Below is a pic (from WIKI) of the 1957 crash of a Douglas C-47 plane named "Mt. Pinatubo" on the slopes of Mount Manunggal, Cebu, Philippines, killed the 7th President of the Philippines, Ramon Magsaysay, and 24 other passengers.

I was within a few miles of Mount Manunggal and this site and did not know it at the time ... I'll be going back later maybe this week to view the site and try to pay a little homage to their fallen leader ...
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PS -- That Husky is quite a sight to see also ... I really enjoy riding that bike here...
 
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