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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

A short ride in the desert 11/16/12

Dirtdame

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We decided to do a short loop in the desert last Friday. The weather was very pleasant under partly cloudy skies, with very little breeze, basically perfect riding weather. We started at Yaqui Wells Camp and rode the Grapevine trail to Jasper trail, then down Montezuma grade to Borrego Springs, where we stopped at Carlee's for lunch. After lunch we spent a lot of time clowning around with the sheet metal sculptures that dot the landscape along Borrego Springs road, before hitting Marrrows/Old Borrego Springs trail back across the desert headed back to our staging spot. A Friday well spent.:thumbsup:

At Yaqui Wells Camp.
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Fun with sculptures.
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The serpent....
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bigger than you think.
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Eek!
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The bugs are big out there.
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Augh! Don't eat me!
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More to come.
 
Hi Dirt Dame, you have been a bit MIA of late and we have missed your reports. Thanks for sharing this one. What fantastic sculptures. Looking forward to more from you soon.
 
Your 07 is looking really nice! Are you sure you ride that bike? BTW I love the graphix, where did you get them?

I find it amazing that I have read through coutless ride reports on advrider and on other sites and have never seen those sculptures. Can you tell us any history about them. That would take some serious dedication to complete just one of those let alone all the stuff you shown us.
 
Swampds said:
Your 07 is looking really nice! Are you sure you ride that bike? BTW I love the graphix, where did you get them?

I find it amazing that I have read through coutless ride reports on advrider and on other sites and have never seen those sculptures. Can you tell us any history about them. That would take some serious dedication to complete just one of those let alone all the stuff you shown us.
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The bike has over 9000 miles/400 hours on it. That works out to an average speed of 22.5 miles per hour, so you can see that a lot of it has been trail riding miles.:cool: The graphics are from DeCal Works. I think that exact design has been discontinued, but they still have lots of other great patterns for Husqvarnas.

A somewhat local (Riverside county) artist does the sculpture. What is pictured here, is just a minor amount of the dozens of elephants, birds, dinosaurs, horses, bugs, assorted other critters and human figures strewn about in Borrego Springs. The work is also along the road on route 79 out of Temecula in the form of a giant rattle snake, stage coach and a small herd of horses. The artist's name is Ricardo Breceda, and his place of business is quite visible from the freeway as you drive north through Perris.

http://ricardoabreceda.com/
 
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