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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Terra on Regular?

Kenneth Webb

Kenneth Webb

Livin' It Up!
I've just been talking with a riding buddy here in Houston that has a Terra on order. He plans on taking his up to Alaska and then across Canada on the Trans Lab Trail this summer. The question is whether the Terra will operate on regular grade gas if careful throttle input is used, or if the bike can be remapped for regular. Is there a knock sensor in the bike? If so, then regular could be used when nothing else is available. At high altitude this is probably not an issue, but within several thousand feet of sea level there could be issues.

Are there any users or dealers with some inside baseball info on this?
 
I was thinking about running a small amount of regular through the bike just to see what would happen. Another option would be to carry a 5 oz. bottle of octane booster with us on our travels. A lot of remote places have few choices...
 
Not that they are even close to being the same bike, but I routinely ran regular in my Tenere and never noticed a bit of difference. When available I always ran premium. Be interesting to see how the Terra reacts.
 
You'll find up north they have high octane gas because cars won't start on 84 up there........ too cold
 
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