• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st Cross

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

All 2st Colorado 500 - Ride?

Jhunter

Jhunter

Husqvarna
AA Class
Has anyone ridden the Colorado 500 Charity Ride? Anyone going this August? My Uncle has been 20+ times and is all over me to ride it this year. Between Work, Kids and the Budget, it just hasn't happened to this point. 2014 looks like a perfect year to go. It's quite the hike from Atlanta so I was wondering what bike prep is needed and if anyone had any riding tips. 500 miles in 5 days is a lot of riding. Any feedback would be great. - John Hunter
 
I did it in '07. Was super fun. Great group of guys and you get to meet and ride with some pretty special people. I met Larry Roeseller and Malcom Smith, Tom White and some others. That was awesome! People come from all over the country, so you coming from Hotlanta wont be a shocker to anyone. Your bike needs to be street legal and plated. I would say to make sure to put new cables on, zip ty your spokes, slime your tubes, go through and loc tite your nuts n bolts, etc. Basically prep your bike as if you were going to Baja. You have a gear bag that travels to your next stop each day, so it is wise to buy some spare parts of something that may be needed. Like my clutch cable went out and thankfully I was able to get one from another rider w the same machine. lesson learned there. PM me if you have any questions. Also don't forget for gas stops with a smoker you will need to premix your gas in your tank. I would put gas in the tank FIRST then based on the amount of fuel that went in, pour my premisx up the old ratio rite, pour it in, and shake the bike vigorously. Hahaha! But it worked. Like I said, PM me with any special questions. I am travelling this week for work, but will be checking in when I can. OH, bring a good camera. The scenery in some of the locations, especially the San Juans in SW CO is absolutely unreal. :cheers:
 
You'll have to rejet any bike that's not FI. Get yourself in best shape cause that altitude can beat you up. Not enough o2 for bike or rider up there. Ride some rocks too. Big ones.
 
I've never ridden it, but I am familiar with some of the areas the ride passes through. Like Marcmo0 said, prep your bike for a torture test. You'll probably be banging your way through at least 1 rock garden so rider and bike protection is a good idea. Large gas tank and a few spares like levers, cables and the like. Call Big D motorsports in woodland park to get jetting specs. (719) 687-7228 have fun.
 
I can also get you some jetting specs. I lived in CO for a long time and still ride at similar altitude. At least a good baseline to get you started. And yes, rocks there will be! Taylor Park outside of Crested Butte has amazing singletrack. That was my personal favorite day. CB to Ouray and then the day back too.
 
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