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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Foresthill Goodness On Trail 6

flipsidenv;132250 said:
Where are you riding in Nevada? Just curious if there are some good trails I haven't heard about for winter time riding. :thumbsup:
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Usually when we go for Thanksgiving it's just the big bikes doing big mile days. Since we both have new singletrackers we wanted to take them along, too. We camp south of HWY 50 out near Austin or Middlegate and just pick a direction, any direction :) A friend of ours lives in Fallon and he's ribbon'd out some singletrack out there but I'd probably never be able to find it again without his help. Don't know what the snow conditions are going to be like, either. The ranges between the valleys usually have some snow when we go, but don't know how bad this year will be. It's looking like cold and sunny days, though :thumbsup:




WoodsChick
 
WoodsChick;132256 said:
Usually when we go for Thanksgiving it's just the big bikes doing big mile days. Since we both have new singletrackers we wanted to take them along, too. We camp south of HWY 50 out near Austin or Middlegate and just pick a direction, any direction :) A friend of ours lives in Fallon and he's ribbon'd out some singletrack out there but I'd probably never be able to find it again without his help. Don't know what the snow conditions are going to be like, either. The ranges between the valleys usually have some snow when we go, but don't know how bad this year will be. It's looking like cold and sunny days, though :thumbsup:




WoodsChick
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Cool!!! Hope you have some great rides! By Thanksgiving the valley floors should be snow free but with the temperatures expected this week I'm sure the ranges aren't going to loose much of the snow this last storm put down. :thumbsup:
 
flipsidenv;132257 said:
Cool!!! Hope you have some great rides! By Thanksgiving the valley floors should be snow free but with the temperatures expected this week I'm sure the ranges aren't going to loose much of the snow this last storm put down. :thumbsup:
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The NOAA's website allows you to get forecasts for specific GPS coordinates. Looks like my preferred campsite has a low of -3 degrees for Wednesday night :eek:


Hmm...the north coast of CA is looking pretty good right now :lol:




WoodsChick
 
Big Sur - San Simon? Looks a bit warmer?

Please don't yell at me for taking your thread off topic. :p
 
Coffee;132280 said:
Big Sur - San Simon? Looks a bit warmer?

Please don't yell at me for taking your thread off topic. :p
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Hey, it's all riding, right? Sounds on-topic to me :thumbsup:

I spent a few Thanksgivings in a row up at the Lost Coast. There's awlays rain to deal with, but at least it isn't frozen. I don't know...the other participants in this ride are thinking maybe a regular dirt ride somewhere...we'll just have to see how it goes...




WoodsChick
 
Great ride Woodschick, Nick and I and other friends did trail 6 some time ago, we want to go back now that I've got Nick riding more...

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late to the game but... awesome ride report! pics are fantastic.

i was just reading this same thread on ADV, over there you mention Eric riding the 144 and being surprised by the power. in my never ending search for someone to decide for me...

how does Eric compare the 250 to the 144 now that you've had them both a while?

does he feel the 144 is much weaker than the 250 anywhere?

did he have to swap carbs on the 250 to get it dialed in? any other mods to dial in?

i know there are tons of great comments on the 144 here but every once and a while i'll read a post that makes the 144 motor sound a little too small.

appreciate any feedback. thnx.
 
typeone;142785 said:
late to the game but... awesome ride report! pics are fantastic.
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Thanks, typeone!

i was just reading this same thread on ADV, over there you mention Eric riding the 144 and being surprised by the power. in my never ending search for someone to decide for me...

how does Eric compare the 250 to the 144 now that you've had them both a while?
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Eric would say the 144 is weak in comparison. I would agree. It's a 144, that's to be expected. But it's not your typical 144. It is very surprising for a tiddler. Very user-friendly. Still a busy machine and clutch skills are rewarded handsomely, but not near as essential as, say, a typical 125 2-stroke.


does he feel the 144 is much weaker than the 250 anywhere?
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Well, yes. It's weaker everywhere. It also feels much lighter, much narrower and much more nimble. It handles almost telepathically, very little input is needed to make it do what you want it to do. The 144 is the best handling dirtbike I've ever ridden...and I've been riding for 25 years. Ride it all day without wearing yourself out. The 250 will kick your butt if you're not paying attention.

did he have to swap carbs on the 250 to get it dialed in? any other mods to dial in?
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Well...he hasn't switched carbs yet. He's gotten the Mikuni very close to what he wants, but we shall see. He does not want to go switching carbs and all that crap. He bought a new bike so he wouldn't have to do a bunch of stuff in order to ride. He wants it to be exactly like his GasGas 300 and/or 250 but it is never going to be that. He's pretty happy with it, though.

i know there are tons of great comments on the 144 here but every once and a while i'll read a post that makes the 144 motor sound a little too small.

appreciate any feedback. thnx.
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Well, it's really hard to compare the 144 with a 250...they're totally different animals. The motor is small, but that's the beauty of the bike for those that want a small motor. It is hugely fun to ride, not so serious. Just playful, joyful...fun. That's really the best way to describe it. Yeah, I sometimes wish I had a bigger motor, and if the 250/300 get the upgrading like the 125/144 did I will probably be the first one in line for a 250/300. But that 144 is staying put in my garage :thumbsup:




WoodsChick
 
Well put Woodschick. :thumbsup: I will also be eagerly awaiting the next generation of 250/300. Does Eric's 250 have the old TMX or the new TMXX like used to be on your 144? If he has the old one the JD pwk that you got from Kelly will bolt right up and be instantly better. Try 168 main 42 pilot and a CEL needle in the 3rd slot. If you want to use the JD needles work with the red needle. In this application I had much better results with the standard Keihin needles.

OBTW, I stopped by our local KTM dealer. The old owner was a friend of mine and due to health had to sell. So I stopped in to greet the new folks. In the conversation it was brought up that in '12 the whole line up will be FI. They are producing very few of the enduro versions this year to create some hunger for the new FI(maybe DI) 2 strokes. Also to give dealers a chance to get rid of their stock too. Might be just a rumour but Husky needs to hit a homerun with the new 250/300 or they will be falling farther behind in the development curve for the bigger bore 2T's
 
WoodsChick said:
Well, it's really hard to compare the 144 with a 250...they're totally different animals. The motor is small, but that's the beauty of the bike for those that want a small motor. It is hugely fun to ride, not so serious. Just playful, joyful...fun. That's really the best way to describe it. Yeah, I sometimes wish I had a bigger motor, and if the 250/300 get the upgrading like the 125/144 did I will probably be the first one in line for a 250/300. But that 144 is staying put in my garage :thumbsup:

WoodsChick
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Exactly the feedback I was looking for, thanks WoodsChick!!
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wallybean said:
Well put Woodschick. :thumbsup: I will also be eagerly awaiting the next generation of 250/300. Does Eric's 250 have the old TMX or the new TMXX like used to be on your 144? If he has the old one the JD pwk that you got from Kelly will bolt right up and be instantly better. Try 168 main 42 pilot and a CEL needle in the 3rd slot. If you want to use the JD needles work with the red needle. In this application I had much better results with the standard Keihin needles.

OBTW, I stopped by our local KTM dealer. The old owner was a friend of mine and due to health had to sell. So I stopped in to greet the new folks. In the conversation it was brought up that in '12 the whole line up will be FI. They are producing very few of the enduro versions this year to create some hunger for the new FI(maybe DI) 2 strokes. Also to give dealers a chance to get rid of their stock too. Might be just a rumour but Husky needs to hit a homerun with the new 250/300 or they will be falling farther behind in the development curve for the bigger bore 2T's
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Hi, Walt! Eric is running his stock Mikuni and it looks exactly like the one that came on my WR. I was running a PWK from the GasGas on my WR til you sent me your carb, so no JD kit for the PWK. He's pretty happy with the jetting on the Mikuni, and he's talking to RB Designs about the carb mod right now. We'll see how it all shakes out!

Interesting stuff about the KTM's. I was in a huge BMW/Triumph/KTM shop on Saturday (hint: I was not looking at KTM's or BMW's
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) and KTM only had 9 bikes on the floor, all of them 4-stroke dirtbikes except for one 200. No 2-strokes, no adventurey bikes, no SMs, just the 4-strokes. I thought that was kind of odd.
 
WoodsChick said:
KTM only had 9 bikes on the floor, all of them 4-stroke dirtbikes except for one 200. No 2-strokes, no adventurey bikes, no SMs, just the 4-strokes. I thought that was kind of odd.
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Every time I have gone into a KTM place and that's all they have, they tell me that they have gotten and sold all of their allotment. I don't believe that though, because when I wanted an EXC300 and the dealer told me that they couldn't get anymore and sold me a 250 instead, they magically got a 300 the very next month.
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