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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Cogon Cruz Barangay Ride

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You can see from these first few pics that I'm only a mile or so from the Pacific Ocean inland and just starting to get into the larger hills here that grow into the mountain ranges ... Pretty typical island landscape I'd guess.

I've rode most of this stuff before but not all of it. Lots of lava rock here ... Very hard, rips a tire to shreds quickly and not a place you wanna even fall over in ...

Here's a pretty good view of where I'm at on the island. And you can see the white cement roads.
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Altitude and directional data.
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That's Mactan (LapuLapu) island in the background with the white buildings and probably Bohol just behind there. Southern Leyte is out there somewhere also ... And Hawaii :)102_0740.JPG

Here's a good look at the trail and lava rock ... Its steep and gnarly ...That rock is like steel, hard and unforgiving... No rounded edges on this stuff and ~95% is embedded...You can see some big chunks on the right side covered up in the weeds ... This stuff is bone \ case \ brake discs busters ... A knobby knob ripper.
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I've got some videos of some china bikes (125cc 4t) on trails and they do alright in most places ... But in stuff like this, you could bust a rim up if you try to carry much speed with them.
 
I really like this part of the trail ... Nothing too hard with the trail changing all along the way ... Everyone is helping with directions along the way. These guys are not mountain folk but do not live in the flatlands by the ocean ... So, I think, this makes them more accustomed to seeing riders come through.

My mistake when I got hung at that small climb by the home ... Just did not remember the trail till it was too late and lost my momentum again :(
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAeuZATOK24
 
Here's the climb on up this ridge over some of that rough stuff.. This is my rekluse bike and this is a good example where that device is not what I want on a technical but not too slow climb ... I don't like how the ground speed and engine RPM are locked together. I should and could carry more speed on that first climb, but I did make it and it was all accomplished with a sort-of-set throttle position and a fat, even finger on the clutch. Places like this is not where a TC shines...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuYK8OIKvZE
 
This is the new part of the trail ... That top part is really steep ... I think I can go back up it but it might be a battle ... The part where the steps are cut into the dirt and then that turn before the top climb out is gonna require some speed to climb up ... I can make it but there is not alot of room on each side for mistakes..

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vYBcly8iHM
 
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