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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Sand

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Drewidd

Husqvarna
AA Class
Well I think I was the last person in Australia to pick up a Terra, so I'm behind the eight ball in getting it setup.

finally have everything other than crash bars (on backorder) loaded her up not overly heavy
and hit some dirt lanes on the weekend.
I'm used to lighter dirt bikes e.g. ktm 450, I hit first bit of sand on the terra and handlebars locked up instantly. this happened repeatedly as I hit sandy sections.

now the lane wasn't overly long so I didn't take air out of the tyres and I'm still running the originals.
would taking air out help in the sand? being a heavier bike (I'm 60 kilos) and the track being almost single trail I didn't hammer through the sand but tried to keep constant throttle.
Any suggestions, Ive never had this happen on dirt bikes.
 
Welcome to the club. I'm running 18 & 24 psi front and back and used both Mitas EO7 & EO9 in sand no issues. I'm relatively new to adventure riding but haven't tipped it yet in sand. There are couple of threads on how crappy the stock tyres are so see their advice on what to change too.

Happy riding and hope to see you on the road.
 
Drewidd said:
Well I think I was the last person in Australia to pick up a Terra, so I'm behind the eight ball in getting it setup.

finally have everything other than crash bars (on backorder) loaded her up not overly heavy
and hit some dirt lanes on the weekend.
I'm used to lighter dirt bikes e.g. ktm 450, I hit first bit of sand on the terra and handlebars locked up instantly. this happened repeatedly as I hit sandy sections.

now the lane wasn't overly long so I didn't take air out of the tyres and I'm still running the originals.
would taking air out help in the sand? being a heavier bike (I'm 60 kilos) and the track being almost single trail I didn't hammer through the sand but tried to keep constant throttle.
Any suggestions, Ive never had this happen on dirt bikes.
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Standing, weight back toward the rear, steer with your weight on the pegs, air down, throttle like hell! At least that's the theory.
 
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