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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

China Hat 2011, Northwest Fall Gathering Ride Reports + Photos

Thanks to everyone !More of that later,It was great seeing Coffee and friends at The NW gathering ,but him and his buddy BEER, who both were very present at the gathering stopped by the shop today to trick or treat but we knew who they were right away.I tried to get them to hang and help wash bikes but thier enduro timers were clicking and they had to go do some more trick or treating Happy Halloween from the BILLS gang.
 

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BILLF said:
Thanks to everyone !More of that later,It was great seeing Coffee and friends at The NW gathering ,but him and his buddy BEER, who both were very present at the gathering stopped by the shop today to trick or treat but we knew who they were right away.I tried to get them to hang and help wash bikes but thier enduro timers were clicking and they had to go do some more trick or treating Happy Halloween from the BILLS gang.
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Coffee and Beer, pretty good one :-) The creative mind of Bill and Bryon and crew knows no bounds
 
I had some quality alone time with my new love interest...the TXC310 :love:
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KTM's were well-represented. This one even had WP forks...
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I tried to get a photo of Eric on the sweet little CR150 (he had to knock me down and pry my hands off the bars in order to get a ride on it) but all I could capture were the prevailing trail conditions...
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The extremely dusty conditions kept me from taking photos on the trail.

The scene of the crime, or where a simple little tip-over resulted in my broken shoulder...
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Meanwhile back at the ranch...
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It was a GREAT event! What made it really cool was that several people put this event together - Bill put a tremendous amount of effort (and $), Jason was incredible, Kris came up, some of the rest of the Corona folks did what they could... Oregonsage and numerous other people organized things on cafe husky.... and I am sure there are others as well.

I would consider the event 100% successful :applause:

This is not a typical 'Ride Report' because I did not get any trail pictures..

Friday I spent riding all the bikes. Little tid bits were discovered such as a 2012 TE310 will run decent (but not great) with the right side petcock closed - strange symptoms. Runs much better with it open. :) If I were going to replace my bike that would be the one because I really like having a license plate and it ran great.
 
This is what happened.

  • People came in, took a bike, rode it for usually a short time so others also had a chance to ride the bikes.
  • Then the person took another bike for a ride
  • Repeat until they tried all the bikes they wanted

Which kept the bikes quite busy... it also kept Bryon busy filling tanks and in one case changing a tube - I won't say who put the nail in the tire :D

Typical shot during the day - bikes were usually quite busy..
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Here are the bikes when they were not being used - notice it is a night shot? :)
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There were people there from the industry!

Of course we all know Kelly..

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But Dave and Dustin were there from Giant Loop - I'll post a separate thread for that later..

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In addition I met Jeff the owner of Trail Tech who was also there.
 
Random shots...

I took this guys soul (inside joke)

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The people camped all over the place it was really spread out..

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I believe this group is a common sight in the Pacific North West :)

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Kris and Jason changing out the rear shock on a bike - the 2012 suspension was being put on a 2011 bike... if 2 pictures were to sum up HVNA these would speak the loudest, to me. Life is very good for Husqvarna riders in the USA these days. :thumbsup:

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More later..
 
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