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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

King City CA

I had to spend a day in King City about 20 years ago. It's a bit more lively now, but the first place we stopped to kill time was the stationery store. That should give you an idea of how exciting the town is. There is, however, a nice selection of good Mexican restaurants on Broadway St.

There's very little dual sporting in the area. King City is a little less than 2 hours south from where I live.

You can take Gloria Rd to La Gloria which will take you from Gonzales to Highway 25 just north of Pinnacles National Monument. Highway 25 is a popular street ride - some nice twisties and some long straights to test that top speed. Gloria/La Gloria is an easy dirt ride, although it often is quite silty and is unpassable when wet. It's 15-20 miles.

Just outside of Hollister is Hollister Hills State Vehicular Recreational Area, an OHV park. It's about 90 minutes north east from King City. I've been going there almost every weekend lately and clocking some time on my TE310. It's got enough trails for you to ride all day and not do them all. At my pace... two days. :o

To the east of 25 off Coalinga Rd you can ride some county roads in Clear Creek Management Area but all the trails are closed because the BLM has it's head where the sun doesn't shine when it comes to science. We've been fighting the closure for four years. Roughly 70,000 acres of prime riding... The county roads that are open comprise a loop of about 35 miles.

About an hour to the west, at the top of the ride of the Los Padres range, after traversing through Fort Hunter Ligget, you can ride a few forest service roads... South Coast Ridge Road, Los Burros and Plaskett Ridge are the primaries. There are some offshoots. Taking anything that goes east from the ridge line will likely venture into Fort Hunter Liggett and that's a very bad idea.

The only place I've mentioned with any difficult riding is Hollister Hills. The Los Padres range on the coast can provide a heck of a view on a clear day, though.

Pozo/La Panza is about 2 hours south, just east of Paso Robles about 25 miles.

If you want to travel further, there's more stuff - it's about 5 hours from some good desert riding near Ridgecrest. Jawbone Canyon, Spangler Hills, Randsburg... Those are all fairly close together. They're just east over the mountain range from Death Valley... and across the valley a ways.
 
Wow, thorough response. If I end up at the family gathering it sounds like I can spend some Husky TXC time at Hollister Hills and some Buell time on PCH and a little TE250 time exploring the fire roads. :thumbsup:
 
PM me when you're down here and maybe we can ride together. I suck in the dirt, but I hold my own pretty well on pavement.
 
If I can beat this cold I'll be out at Hollister... probably on Sunday at this rate.
 
I plan to be at Hollister tomorrow. I try to park around the TT track/Hill climb/SX track. White Tacoma/
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510 SM SC said:
I plan to be at Hollister tomorrow. I try to park around the TT track/Hill climb/SX track. White Tacoma/
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Were you out in the Renz on the 30th? (friday). We stopped somewhere in there and I spotted a white and red on a trail above us, but that group didn't head down our way. I was out on my '11 TE310 enjoying my first sojourn in the Renz.

I probably won't head to Hollister tomorrow. I'm doing better than I was yesterday, but I'm still pretty sick.
 
mnb said:
Were you out in the Renz on the 30th? (friday). We stopped somewhere in there and I spotted a white and red on a trail above us, but that group didn't head down our way. I was out on my '11 TE310 enjoying my first sojourn in the Renz.

I probably won't head to Hollister tomorrow. I'm doing better than I was yesterday, but I'm still pretty sick.
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Not me, I did the Ridge Runners D/S poker run on New Years Day. Big fun ridding the SC mountians
and some awsome single track on 60 acres of privet property.

The Renz rocks, plan to rip it up tommorrow, the bike is running great!

Get Well, Lets ride sometime???

# 510

Rob
 
sweet, there's even more local husky riders. I try to say hi to them when I can. You know... just to let em know they're not alone... :)
 
mnb said:
Were you out in the Renz on the 30th? (friday). We stopped somewhere in there and I spotted a white and red on a trail above us, but that group didn't head down our way.
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That might have been me. I rode Hollister on that Friday..
 
The Windmill Maze is a favorite to me, I was one of the first to ride it.

Great Ride today.IMGP0002.JPG the 250 was ripping.

#510
 
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