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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
What did you learn on?
- Thread starter TemecuCoastie
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Ever go to Trapani's bike shop in Waretown? Lived right across rt9 
. It really was awesome growing up there.
. It really was awesome growing up there.
What's that first yellow Yamaha sport bike?!?! I want one
Indorider
Husqvarna
AA Class
What's that first yellow Yamaha sport bike?!?! I want one
That's the scariest of any bike I've ever ridden, the TZ-500. You never know when the powerband is gonna kick in. When it does, it just wants to stand straight up.
You'd have more fun with this one. You can ride it one the street and the power is controllable. Wish I'd never sold mine. If I lived in the states I'd be bidding on this one.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1984...1832821?pt=US_motorcycles&hash=item43bead3b75
ray_ray
Mini-Sponsor
That rz 500 in the link looks like it has a car fender rear end on it ..
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I rode a couple other enduro bikes before this 1976 CR250 Husky purchase ...but I had never rode a real dirt till this bike ...Mine had the 1976.5 model pipe that came up and under the gas tank instead of that cool side pipe on previous models ...
Heikki Mikkola was wining world championship along in this time. He pretty much kept DeCoster from winning a decade straight of 500cc championships ...
Johnrg
Husqvarna
Pro Class
My mom was cool to hop on the back of my first bike to take a ride across the Brookly Bridge ;-). A Honda 350, I bought from my cousin.
Yeah... Stripped those ape hangers and sissy bar off real quick and had fun with an impact wrench back then with those damn phillips head engine screws!
View: http://youtu.be/hozY4RaoYpU
View: http://youtu.be/ygh69OB85s8
Yeah... Stripped those ape hangers and sissy bar off real quick and had fun with an impact wrench back then with those damn phillips head engine screws!
Indorider
Husqvarna
AA Class
That rz 500 in the link looks like it has a car fender rear end on it ..
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I rode a couple other enduro bikes before this 1976 CR250 Husky purchase ...but I had never rode a real dirt till this bike ...Mine had the 1976.5 model pipe that came up and under the gas tank instead of that cool side pipe on previous models ...
Heikki Mikkola was wining world championship along in this time. He pretty much kept DeCoster from winning a decade straight of 500cc championships ...
Hell, I don't even get that much air on my modern Husky!!!
Jersey Woods
I live to ride !
All that talk about New Jersey and the places we rode, brings back the best memories of those times.
In 1969 I was 9 years old and my older brother had this 90CC Yamaha that had a step through frame. I'm not sure of the year it was because my dad bought it second hand for him as his first bike. I learned how to ride that in my parents back yard. In 1972 I got my first bike. I was a Yamaha Mini Enduro. I loved that bike and wish I could get my hands on one today.
In 1969 I was 9 years old and my older brother had this 90CC Yamaha that had a step through frame. I'm not sure of the year it was because my dad bought it second hand for him as his first bike. I learned how to ride that in my parents back yard. In 1972 I got my first bike. I was a Yamaha Mini Enduro. I loved that bike and wish I could get my hands on one today.
Zomby woof
Husqvarna
Pro Class
I also had one of those mini bikes.
My first real bike was the Bombardier version of this. It wasn't that old, but didn't run. My dad got it running, and it was fast enough that I could beat my buddy on his XR75.
A year after that, my buddy got a CR125, and once my dad saw that, we went over to the Suzuki dealer, and bought one of these.
It was really fast and I crashed a lot. I still have a ton of scars from that first summer, but it was one of the best times of my life
Thanks dad.
My first real bike was the Bombardier version of this. It wasn't that old, but didn't run. My dad got it running, and it was fast enough that I could beat my buddy on his XR75.
A year after that, my buddy got a CR125, and once my dad saw that, we went over to the Suzuki dealer, and bought one of these.
It was really fast and I crashed a lot. I still have a ton of scars from that first summer, but it was one of the best times of my life
Thanks dad.
Kyle Tarry
Husqvarna
Pro Class
ZX6R. 
2005. I'm not as old as some of you fogies...
2005. I'm not as old as some of you fogies...
eel125
Husqvarna
A Class
When you are our age motorcycles will have jet packs on them , like the Jetons. You are probably saying who are the Jetsons lolZX6R.
2005. I'm not as old as some of you fogies...
wallybean
Mini-Sponsor
You missed the best of times. Open riding anywhere that wasn't wilderness. Forest Service maintained the trails. Riding in a burned area was the exception not the rule. We didn't have the Hollywood and New York tree huggers in Western Montana. People loved the bikes and our local MX track had a race a month with ~2500 people showing up to watch. Hamilton's population then was 2500. Cross Country races were held anywhere public and routinely had 400+ riders on the starting line. You could ride all the trails all day and never see another rider/person no matter what trail you rode. 1500+ miles of single track trail in just Ravalli County. I miss riding in the late 60's-70's.ZX6R.
2005. I'm not as old as some of you fogies...
dave lindsey
Husqvarna
AA Class
my neighbors Taco mini bike, I was 9 or so. Always rode the neighbors bikes till I finally got my own at 15. was a Hodaka Ace 90
ptkatoomer
Husqvarna
Pro Class
First real bike was a Suzuki TM125(distant second to the Honda Elsinore-but all I could afford!). Saved up the $ from my paper-route: even though my folks weren't crazy about it, when they saw I saved up half the money they loaned me the rest
. Dirt bikes were my passion and I'd been racing them for a few years and my parents had never seen me race-one day I was racing at Saddleback, got involved in a first-turn crash with a bunch of guys but still finished the race OK. When I got back to the truck there was a note stuck on my windshield-my folks had come to watch me race, saw the crash and that I got going again but my mom couldn't stand to watch! That was the only time they ever came to a race
. Dirt bikes were my passion and I'd been racing them for a few years and my parents had never seen me race-one day I was racing at Saddleback, got involved in a first-turn crash with a bunch of guys but still finished the race OK. When I got back to the truck there was a note stuck on my windshield-my folks had come to watch me race, saw the crash and that I got going again but my mom couldn't stand to watch! That was the only time they ever came to a race
TemecuCoastie
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Really cool to see all of this stuff. We've all kind of run the spectrum. And, yes, we have dated ourselves a bit.
I learned on a 73' XR75. Too small to touch ground so Pops would fire it up, put it in gear, hold the clutch, let me climb aboard then let me go. When I grew tired I'd aim for Pops and, as I got close I'd jump off and let him try to corral the bike (true story).
I had several bikes since then. Moved on to a Yamaha GT80, a Yamaha YZ80, a lame Suzuki 175 that I beat this piss out of in the Ocotillo Desert and a screaming greeny KX105 - the fastest thing I had ever ridden (as a kid).
I learned on a 73' XR75. Too small to touch ground so Pops would fire it up, put it in gear, hold the clutch, let me climb aboard then let me go. When I grew tired I'd aim for Pops and, as I got close I'd jump off and let him try to corral the bike (true story).
I had several bikes since then. Moved on to a Yamaha GT80, a Yamaha YZ80, a lame Suzuki 175 that I beat this piss out of in the Ocotillo Desert and a screaming greeny KX105 - the fastest thing I had ever ridden (as a kid).