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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Graham Jarvis Rider Academy, Rock Camp, WV. hosted by MotoEx.net

The older you get, the faster you gotta go so old age doesn't catch up to ya :oldman:
They auction off his bike at the end of the weekend and I snagged it right away...2014 TE300 with new GoldenTyres & P3 carbon protection.
The MotoEx.net guys will most likely run another Rider Academy with Jarvis next year. Don' t miss it! It will make you a better rider.

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Looks like a very good way to spend some time on a bike ;) ... Out of everything else riders of Jarvis ability do on a bike, seems they always can get the needed traction for each move ...

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If you had to sum up what you were taught in as few of words as possible, what did you learn about bike riding, Jarvis style?
 
Stop, evaluate & execute. Slower is faster. Load your suspension at precisely the right moment for best traction. Get your butt off the seat. Don't fear stoppies on downhills. :thumbsup: He also showed us some cool balance exercises. Epic, Spectacular, Unbelievable.

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airrider said:
Stop, evaluate & execute. Slower is faster. Load your suspension at precisely the right moment for best traction. Get your butt off the seat. Don't fear stoppies on downhills. :thumbsup: He also showed us some cool balance exercises. Epic, Spectacular, Unbelievable.
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Thanks and I'm doing some of this now as I have the time to commit to learning how to ride ~more correctly :)...

Not ready for a downhill stoppie but a while ago, it was explained out here by Zip-Ty(?), to control the speed on a steep downhill at the top initially, with the front brake ... We're on the same page here and this works 100% for me ...

Since I am on the bike so much now, I've been doing some the suspension loading \ seat bouncing stuff on my own the last 6 months or so ... Just playing on the bike at lower speeds really ... Since Jarvis is saying it's the way, I'll bring this suspension technique out more often ...

Did he say to sleep with your clutch-lever each and every night or did he have different words on clutching behavior? I might be depending on doing too much clutch lever work instead of the suspension loading for traction..
 
One finger clutching should come naturally to seek the best traction, but during all the exercises, I slowly realized that the maneuvers can be done more successfully if the engagement point is closer to the bars. I got better and better as I increased the free play on my clutch lever.
 
Also....I ran into Turtlemoye from the Cafe shredding the dirt with the rest of us, here's some of his moves.....IMG_4384CR.JPG

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And that's him with those unmistakable red & white boots sitting next to my wife as Jarvis arrives for lunch....

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AirRider, Kosta, Adir and I went riding yesterday with Keven in Stockholm yesterday. Very nice riding there! Are you free late in the week, like Friday to ride? Did your new bike arive yet?
 
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AirRider, Kosta, Adir and I went riding yesterday with Keven in Stockholm yesterday. Very nice riding there! Are you free late in the week, like Friday to ride? Did your new bike arive yet?
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Bike next week I hope, paperwork is a little slow.
Stockholm is beautiful, just perfect for a couple of recovering riders like you and K. How did it go?
 
It was awesome. Did some intense Hillclimb's without any problem at all. I kind I had to wait for everybody at times at times. Because if your expert training and we were all in no hurry. Let me know if we can go for a ride soon any time any day but before the leaves catch up with us. They are starting to hide the rocks pretty quickly now. My only slight recovery feelings are when I stretch mostly when I get on and off the bike at obscure angles. II am ready to ride the Ramapos! And I mostly miss riding with you.
 
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