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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Learning to ride your bike.

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I saw an interview a few yrs back on a superbike(yamaha) racer guy and he stated he knew that his bike would not do every single thing correctly and it was his job to learn how to ride the bike fast, regardless, in all places on the track..

Here's an interview with JS7 saying basically the same thing. He's talking about how they test and dial in his SUZ in the first part of this interview. Usually his test rides are just a few laps and after the first one, the lap times are usually quicker. Why? JS7 said that was because on the 1st lap he does not know how to ride the bike on the that lap. Each lap after that, he has learned how to ride the bike at that current setup. And he goes faster.

Sounds like, that the closer to perfection the suspension is setup, the faster a rider can go... But highly impossible that your bike will ever be set up ~perfectly if you are in varying conditions ... Seat time is what makes you faster on most any setup.

http://www.vitalmx.com/photos/features/James-Stewart-Chatter-Box,37797/Slideshow,0/GuyB,64
 
That is true all the time, with each bike your ride for the first time. Each machine is slightly different. Fix the suspension? Then you ride again and see how good it is and how much further you can push it. Change bar bends? Affects where you sit and how your weight transfer changes. Make tuning change? Same again....

Anything you change will make you give the machine a changed command.
 
Dirtdame said:
That is true all the time, with each bike your ride for the first time. Each machine is slightly different. Fix the suspension? Then you ride again and see how good it is and how much further you can push it. Change bar bends? Affects where you sit and how your weight transfer changes. Make tuning change? Same again....

Anything you change will make you give the machine a changed command.
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I think you are right but I've never thought of riding this way ... We ride our bike day 1. Figure out what it can and can't do, and day 2 we are better or maybe we top out on speed. This repeats its' self day after day.

Then we add a new part, make some change and the first ride is better, maybe worst. Either way, next ride we adjust to what ever that last change is. We continue adjusting to the bike and start getting better or not improving with this set up.

Repeat .. Its a loop!

We are changing for better or worst on our bike each day we ride apparently...
 
Dirtdame said:
That is true all the time, with each bike your ride for the first time. Each machine is slightly different. Fix the suspension? Then you ride again and see how good it is and how much further you can push it. Change bar bends? Affects where you sit and how your weight transfer changes. Make tuning change? Same again....

Anything you change will make you give the machine a changed command.
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Yep, bike setup and seat time are both obviously good. It is amazing moving the bars or pegs a 1/4 inch make it feel so much different. Lots of things are a trade off, some are a big advantage or disadvantage. Thats why people swap out bars to ones they like, dial or revalve the suspension to work for them in their conditions etc. And yes, you will never have it setup 100% and need to ride around your setup. For off road gnar I set my suspension loose so it tracks and maintains traction but know it will be more of a handful on the faster stuff. You can never have it all. Motors, like them linear and good mid. I'm all about setup and feels it makes all the difference.
 
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