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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Why not a bike trailer? Then I could sell another vehicle....

Don't listen to these people. I was impractical because I rode my supermoto all year round in colorado. That bike is gone now so I could be practical with a truck, I'm miserable without it. Just do it!

Coffee, a man of your stature should have this bike! You are the owner of CafeHusky! The leader of the pack! The message forum king! These people that say this is a bad move are the same ones that own "a" Husky. It's simply jealously! The voice of reason should always be the one that says yes lol
 
here just get this setup and sell everything!!

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lankydoug said:
I pulled a trailer similar to that behind a bicycle on a 120mile trip. It was really sketchy on down hills especially braking. The weight will try to jack knife you.
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Good input, thanks. And yes it seems to be most closely related to a bicycle trailer more than anything else. Though the idea is to pull anything heavy off road (relative term) is to go either uphill or to a location where I could get a Ford F250 4WD to it, 300 feet?

The intent is to ride on roads (usually paved) with any significant weight in it most of the time.

The (apparently) 1 person company that makes the thing is located near Eugene OR, so my thought was to stop by and at least look at one. In the highly unlikely event he actually has 1 for sale, buy it, then take it to the PNW gathering Nov 7th-Nov 11th. Then several of us could evaluate it in person.

I sent a message to the person on adv, but no word back yet.
 
Did you ever end up getting a moto-mule? I am thinking about getting one for adventure trips on my 511. I really want some first hand experience from someone who has one on a husky.
 
Bryce said:
Did you ever end up getting a moto-mule? I am thinking about getting one for adventure trips on my 511. I really want some first hand experience from someone who has one on a husky.
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Yes. :) I had at least 100lbs in it and went up the hill in the 2nd picture. Maybe a 500' steepish hill. I am glad I got it for sure, for my needs. Have not used it much on the road. With my 2006 TE250 it can be a handful going downhill on a tarred road with knobbies, lightish bike and not much rubber meeting the road, especially with a car close behind me.

You would need to see a picture of the hairpin turn on the steep downhill to understand what I mean about traction.

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How much does the trailer weigh empty? I would probably only be putting 50-60 lbs of gear on it. This would be more for doing long relatively easy trails like the TAT (trans america trail). I might have to find another option since it appears that moto-mule is out of production for the foreseeable future. Plus, $900 is a lot to put into something like this.
 
Bryce said:
How much does the trailer weigh empty?...
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I do not have a scale of any kind, but I can easily pick it up and it is an awkward shape... so... 35lbs? 40lbs?

What do you mean by 'out of production', do you mean there would be a long delay if you ordered one before you got it? Were you told he was going to stop making them?

What I did was to sit down and really think about what I needed, and for my needs the moto-mule was the perfect answer. Especially considering how much certain other luggage options are, which also seemed expensive.

In my previous post I mentioned "100lbs" that was 5 gallons of fuel, automotive battery, and a heavy tool box. Fairly difficult to find other methods of moving awkward stuff like that with a bike (for that specific application an atv would have been a better solution).

If I were to do the TAT, I would probably again sit down and really think what made the most sense - the moto-mule may or may not be the answer for me for the TAT. I do not know what the conditions of the TAT are... I've no intention of taking the moto-mule on difficult trails, though it would probably be fine.
 
Wow, you can fit plenty of beers in that chiller box! So what's the overall ride like, does it track and corner well and stay on the road? Obviously you'd have to ride to conditions, but my biggest concern would be accidentally hitting something big and having it bounce up and hit the rear guard? Looks useful though and I'd happily give it a go for longer trips....
 
schoops said:
Wow, you can fit plenty of beers in that chiller box! So what's the overall ride like, does it track and corner well and stay on the road? Obviously you'd have to ride to conditions, but my biggest concern would be accidentally hitting something big and having it bounce up and hit the rear guard? Looks useful though and I'd happily give it a go for longer trips....
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Assuming there is weight in it, and imagine a lot of weight being on the rear axle - the bikes front end is lighter, and it acts accordingly. Better in the whoops, more stable in almost all conditions because of the added mass. For instance on an icy road where I would have fallen down, I did not.

It *will* bounce around a bit, but has yet to touch the bike as far as I know. Probably the most dicey situation is when the bike cannot quite get up a steep hill for some reason, and the bike needs to get turned around to go back down the hill. And as previously stated going down down steep hills with a lot of weight is not fun (wants to push bike downhill).

It is not "fun" to have it on the back per se, but it is 100x more fun to use than a my other vehicles with 4 wheels going to the grocery store which get far less mpg... and it is 1000x more fun than humping heavy items up steep hills on foot.

It is for sure a specialty item, and certainly not for everyone. But I can go long distances with inexpensive standard fuel cans instead of getting an aftermarket tank... and move bulky items around (like the beer you mentioned :cheers: )
 
Sounds like you could use a horse and a pack mule. Slower but no gas needed. Stable in the steeps, and no oil or stainless filters needed. Pick up a goat too for the poison oak.
 
Coffee said:
What do you mean by 'out of production', do you mean there would be a long delay if you ordered one before you got it? Were you told he was going to stop making them?
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They are not even available for order on the website anymore. Directly from the website - "We are not taking any new orders at this time. We are going to finish the orders we have in process, move the shop to a new and improved location, do some much needed maintenance to our tooling, and design a fancy new website.Hope there is some time to ride too..."
 
Where a motorcycle pulled trailer would be helpful is bringing trail tools deep into single track for trail work. For jobs within your property, this trailer pulled by a TE250 would be the hot set-up.
 
The horse or donkey suggestion is really spot on! Trips into town are possible too you dont have to bolt a plate on the "asses" ass to be street legal either.
 
Big and Husky said:
Sounds like that trailer wheel needs an adjustable electric brake.
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i was thinking the same thing. sounds pretty handy and handles about like was expected with the downhill probs but hey aslong as it works for the stuff you want it too, your not haulin a d9 dozer or anything like that. :cheers:
 
A few months ago Dirt Bike Magazine ran an article about a few guys that outfitted their bikes to carry chainsaws, axes, and other big tools for for deep trail work. The author said the bikes handled poorly with the tools installed plus it was a lot of work to make the mounts. A tool trailer makes far more sense.

Mount a keg on one and I'll pull that!
 
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