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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Hiker's STINK EYE caught on video!

I've been silent and holding out till now. I can't stand it anymore. I just gotta say it....

If I had encountered this tree-humping freak on trails in my stomping grounds in PA... on trails that I and my friends forged back in the 70's... I'd have sprayed that bi^@+ with coal dirt till her eyes fell out. Then I'd have turned around and sprayed her again for good measure. Then probably again. But not 4 times. 4 times would be excessive I think. Yeah 4 times would be too much.
 
I think she had a case of the vapors. At least you were polite and rode by very slowly. Sierra Club types want everything their own and have no room for opinions that vary from theirs. Coexisting and sharing is not in their vocabulary.
 
I'm glad that someone actually noticed the awesome trail...good for you! Brett, who was in front of me, was on a Honda CR 250 and Joe, who was behind me, was on a KTM 300 smoker.

skid;106911 said:
sweet looking trail !!
too bad you weren't up there on a 2 smoke!!!
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Maybe were all assuming she was upset about the exhaust smell.

I hear that eating berries and granola gives you really stinky gas.:eek:
Her "partner" probably held it in all day, you know how women about those things. Good thing you didn't stop to say "Hi" or you too might have surcome to the toxic vapors.:lol:
 
seymore;107030 said:
Maybe were all assuming she was upset or the exhaust smell.

I hear that eating berries and granola gives you really stinky gas.:eek:
Her "partner" probably held it in all day, you know how women about those things. Good thing you didn't stop to say "Hi" or you too might have surcome to the toxic vapors.:lol:
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I bet your right! her partner let it go when the bike came by to hide it.
 
As much as I hate to say it, I can totally see the hiker's perspective. 2-strokes STINK. Yes, us gearhead types love it, nothing better than the smell of premix in the morning and all that, but the average 2-stroke smokes like a rolling tire fire. Especially when ridden by me, perpetually off the pipe. If I do three laps around my house, I can see a haze settling in my neighbor's back yard. Seriously. Not too many folks like this.

That said, the hiker was being an ass with the nose holding.

I can't wait for the smokeless DI 2-stroke...
 
Interesting that most of these comments are more negative towards female hikers then the gesture she made about dirt bikes:confused:
 
Nice! I'll look for her Monday. Gonna hit that trail up with some buddies. I live so close and haven't ridden it yet this year.
 
I find it very offensive that you ride in such a beautiful arena. I think if you would had have your cologne on that day you might have got lucky. Tree huggers are very fury and down to earth. Well, at least thats how they portray them in that movie "without a paddle". I would roosted her for that foul set up. Looser bark biter.
 
dfeckel;107064 said:
As much as I hate to say it, I can totally see the hiker's perspective. 2-strokes STINK. Yes, us gearhead types love it, nothing better than the smell of premix in the morning and all that, but the average 2-stroke smokes like a rolling tire fire. Especially when ridden by me, perpetually off the pipe. If I do three laps around my house, I can see a haze settling in my neighbor's back yard. Seriously. Not too many folks like this.

That said, the hiker was being an ass with the nose holding.

I can't wait for the smokeless DI 2-stroke...
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Dude, you need to jet your bike properly. No way should it leave that big of a witness in three laps. :excuseme:
 
Dirty Bikes;107075 said:
Interesting that most of these comments are more negative towards female hikers then the gesture she made about dirt bikes:confused:
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Thank you.

Personally I find this entire thread less than pleasant, although I do understand the frustrations of these encounters. It would be great to try to ignore the less than positive things, and focus on the good things.
 
dfeckel;107064 said:
As much as I hate to say it, I can totally see the hiker's perspective. 2-strokes STINK. Yes, us gearhead types love it, nothing better than the smell of premix in the morning and all that, but the average 2-stroke smokes like a rolling tire fire. Especially when ridden by me, perpetually off the pipe. If I do three laps around my house, I can see a haze settling in my neighbor's back yard. Seriously. Not too many folks like this.

That said, the hiker was being an ass with the nose holding.

I can't wait for the smokeless DI 2-stroke...
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Actually, during harescrambles I have found that following guys on 2 strokes stink less than following the overheating, oil burning, race gas wasting 4 strokes... :D
 
Heck, I love the smell of castor oil & race gas in the morning.....Smells like, victory.

I can see your point Coffee, but let's not forget that the lead bike slowed down & said hello. I thought the guys on the bikes were as polite as one could be in this type of encounter on the trail.

Motorcyclist don't shut down trails to hikers, but hikers get trail shut down for dirt bikes. I thought her actions profiled what she thought dirt bikes do to the environment & to me that's not good.
 
BadMotoWeazal;107270 said:
Heck, I love the smell of castor oil & race gas in the morning.....Smells like, victory.

I can see your point Coffee, but let's not forget that the lead bike slowed down & said hello. I thought the guys on the bikes were as polite as one could be in this type of encounter on the trail.

Motorcyclist don't shut down trails to hikers, but hikers get trail shut down for dirt bikes. I thought her actions profiled what she thought dirt bikes do to the environment & to me that's not good.
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Precisely! It's been pointed out in another post already but deserves repeating... I'm sure the two hikers didn't WALK to the mountain. The hypocrisy is what irritates the fool out of me. "HEY! I gotta great idea... let's all jump in the Excursion and drive 50 miles to the mountain so we can hike 2 miles!" :censored:
 
Good news...

Went up to Gifford (local epic ride area) to clear trail and work the trails. Ran into a lot of hikers and guess what, they were all totally cool. One group yelled and hooted when we went by in excitement. We yelled back. Then met them later taking a break on a bridge, they are all "hey, that looks fun, how cool is that?" Two other groups we passed on the way back to the truck. they seemed fine and were waving. They showed up at the staging area just as we were getting ready to leave and were all nice and talkative. About 15 people total and all cool. :thumbsup:
 
Ahhhhh............... I just try to treat folks the way I would like to be treated. If I come across people mtn biking or hiking or horseriding, give them some room if possible and back off if possible. This stuff is all of our domain until dictated differently. It's fun to stop and talk to people using other means of transportation if they're willing to talk. Guess I want to go overboard to show I'm not an braindead a$$hole on a dirtbike. Should I feel that way? Ideally not. I blame it on quads:busted:
 
ioneater;107479 said:
Ahhhhh............... I just try to treat folks the way I would like to be treated. If I come across people mtn biking or hiking or horseriding, give them some room if possible and back off if possible. This stuff is all of our domain until dictated differently. It's fun to stop and talk to people using other means of transportation if they're willing to talk. Guess I want to go overboard to show I'm not an braindead a$$hole on a dirtbike. Should I feel that way? Ideally not. I blame it on quads:busted:
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That's what I've been try'n to tell ya...It's all their fault.:lol::lol:

:cheers:
 
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