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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TE 630 First Ride

T Stretch

T Stretch

Husqvarna
B Class
These are some pictures of my first ride on the new bike. I drove from Sacramento east to Jackson and then up Hwy 88 to Bear River Lake Resort to test out the bike. The bike has plenty of low end torque and just cruised right up the mountain roads. The original gearing was pretty high, a 15 tooth front sprocket and a 42 rear sprocket. I changed it to a 14 front and a 45 rear. I gassed up at the resort and had an ice coffee to let my bottom side take a rest. These dirt bike seats aren’t like driving a BMW. Then I headed up past the cabins to the trail head. At first the black top turned into a dirt road and everything was great. Going over some hoop de doo’s I went airborne and really had some fun. The stock tires worked very well. As I progressed the dirt trail turned into the Rubicon. Instead of me eating up the road, the rocks and boulders were starting to eat me up. I need to progress in my riding skills before taking on the rough stuff like this. The bike is 320 lbs and I am 210 lbs, plus I was wearing a back pack with water, extra jacket and a tool kit. The only time I really had a problem was going up in in a long stretch of rocks and boulders when I stalled the bike. Because of my weight I could get the bike up, I just kept spinning the tire. I had to get off the bike and ease it up with a slight throttle and a good push. Pretty soon I got tired of fighting the rocks and turned around for easier trails. Going home I headed across the old Latrobe dirt road and past Hang Town motocross track. It was a good first test on the bike. I love the dirt trails and the bike eats them up.
 

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Thanks for the advice. I usually ride with my brother inlaw, he has a KTM 530 EXC, he loves the rough stuff and keeps taking me further into the out back. I wanted to go alone and feel free of pressure for the first trip. Where to you go riding down your way?
 
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