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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
No deserts near is in the part of Aus i'm in, but took our bikes over to Fraser Island (The largest sand island in the world) The first 20 mins learning to ride in the deep sand was pretty scetchy, but once we worked out to just hold it pinned & let the bike move around a little is was capital A AWESOME in the sand.
Loved it
Dude, 6th gear taped out on tracks that are just two wheel ruts between the bushes.....not clever but good fun at the timeFreshwater track is same, 2/3ft deep soft sand, lean back and pin it !
If you are talking about your TR650 and 1800 miles, then 908RR is going to be your weapon of choice. The MT21 is highly rated, best tire of the year for awhile. The 908RR is a racing tire that is getting well known in the dual sport arena. Ivan and KTM just tested it to 115mph across Baja and I know Faboneup had great luck with it on the TR650. The Kenda is also a really good tire and a less expensive option. We run the 270's on our tour bikes. The 908 is a stronger tire, designed for bikes up to 100hp and is very tough, not likely to be punctured and has been known to last 4000+ miles. But it is expensive and might not be the right tire to fit your budget and the 270 may.
908 at 3100 miles. I think it will go 5000 before getting changed. Has already been to CO/UT twice and would go again if I was leaving tomorrow. Def not the tire for everyone, I like the stiffness/stregnth when I occasional ride two-up, and I can't imagine what it would take to puncture it (now I'll find out for sure). Not changing tires (swearing) as often also has appeal for me. That being said, pretty sure I'm going w/ a Desert Race to match the front next time.
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