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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Mudd to Dust Bowl

J

jones

Husqvarna
C Class
My last ride was the Hangover in WA, this weekend I was in southern CA and rode this, http://www.district37ama.org/offroad/calendar/2010/jan10/2010umc.jpg, This was one rocky tough ride, but fun, other than the bike problems I had.

There were three seperate loops, and 2 miles into the first loop my rear brake line came loose at the caliper. I lost all the brake fluid, so with no rear brake the first loop became pretty slow. Not much fun trying to ride accross the desert in sand washes and accross g-outs and ditches with no rear brake.
After the first loop I had a 30min break till the second loop, and it took me about 45min to get the rear brake to blead out. It was a royal pain. I just about gave up and then leaned the bike to the right side and was able to blead the brake. It would not do anything leaned on the kick stand??
So I started the second loop about 15-20min behind and just ripped the course. When I came in had 15 min till the start of the 3rd loop. Sweet, and then I realized I had 2 flat tires. I was done. I was kind of glad, I was wore out any way.
It was a fun ride, but the te450 needs a stabilizer and some suspension work to be a decent desert bike.

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The start

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A milage reset

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This coming weekend there is a husky demo days going on sat and a national hare & houd going on sunday in Johnson valley. Sure would be fun to hit that.
 
I'm relieved to hear that the rest of your bike did not fall apart while you were out there.:thumbsup:
 
the nat H&H will work you. first loop typ dez all can do loop L2 will have ugly terrain and scary elevation changes. just do it!
 
Sorry to hear about the problems. Sometimes it goes that way. On the bright side though, you didn't have to get a tow back to the pits or even worse, have to push for a spell.
 
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