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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

NW Gathering 2013: Oct 24th-27th @China Hat

Unless it snows and blocks me out I'm planning to attend. The Strada is about as fully converted into a Terra as I can make it and look forward to camping out for one last weekend before the snow starts to stick. I'll stop off and snag a set of stickers in Hermiston, probably ride road mostly there (via Lexington, Spray, Prineville) and sneak in from the North at Millican. I'm looking forward to it!

Plus, this ride should give me a chance to try out my HID conversion to 50watt low beam and the set of CREE aux lights in the foresty fun of Oregon nights.
 
That reminds me. In the past I'd been warned not to try to take 22 from La Pine to China Hat road in previous years when I came on 4 wheels (Tacoma pickup).

How terrible are those roads for 2 wheels? So far I've not found a road that could not be traversed on my TR650...

EDIT: according to google maps:
La Pine -> Bend -> camp 25: 60 miles, 1 1/3 hours (apparently 45mph)
La Pine -> 22/18 intersection -> camp 25: 44 miles, 2 hours (apparently 22mph)

Not sure that takes into account all the stop lights and other delays going through Bend, nor does it take into account a reasonable vehicle for the more difficult roads - reasonably sure a bike could average more than 22mph on almost any navigable road.
 
Coffee said:
That reminds me. In the past I'd been warned not to try to take 22 from La Pine to China Hat road in previous years when I came on 4 wheels (Tacoma pickup).

How terrible are those roads for 2 wheels? So far I've not found a road that could not be traversed on my TR650...

EDIT: according to google maps:
La Pine -> Bend -> camp 25: 60 miles, 1 1/3 hours (apparently 45mph)
La Pine -> 22/18 intersection -> camp 25: 44 miles, 2 hours (apparently 22mph)

Not sure that takes into account all the stop lights and other delays going through Bend, nor does it take into account a reasonable vehicle for the more difficult roads - reasonably sure a bike could average more than 22mph on almost any navigable road.
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China Hat road from the south end of Bend is mostly washboard gravel. Its brutal on 4 wheels, but can be taken at a pretty good clip on a bike. On a Terra I would think its fine if youre up for that sort of riding, but not on a Gold Wing!

On a Dualsport I would definitely take China Hat Rd rather than go around, for all the reasons you cite.

http://goo.gl/maps/nazGs Like this
 
oregonsage said:
China Hat road from the south end of Bend is mostly washboard gravel. Its brutal on 4 wheels, but can be taken at a pretty good clip on a bike. On a Terra I would think its fine if youre up for that sort of riding, but not on a Gold Wing!

On a Dualsport I would definitely take China Hat Rd rather than go around, for all the reasons you cite.
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Spot on. Very doable in most anything but miles and miles of washboard beating.
 
Coffee said:
That reminds me. In the past I'd been warned not to try to take 22 from La Pine to China Hat road in previous years when I came on 4 wheels (Tacoma pickup).

How terrible are those roads for 2 wheels? So far I've not found a road that could not be traversed on my TR650...

EDIT: according to google maps:
La Pine -> Bend -> camp 25: 60 miles, 1 1/3 hours (apparently 45mph)
La Pine -> 22/18 intersection -> camp 25: 44 miles, 2 hours (apparently 22mph)

Not sure that takes into account all the stop lights and other delays going through Bend, nor does it take into account a reasonable vehicle for the more difficult roads - reasonably sure a bike could average more than 22mph on almost any navigable road.
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The 22 road from La Pine is paved all the way to the intersection with 18. From there it is deep washboard gravel. I rode Bills demo TR on it last year and it handled it very well at 45-50MPH . I couldn't believe how it ate the wash board up.
 
http://goo.gl/maps/3qyG9

Also, if you want to stay on the pavement (except 1 mile) and bypass Bend from the South, take this route (see link)

From Hwy 97, Take exit 143 for Knott Rd toward Baker Rd/Medical Ctr/Mt View H.S (Option, jump over highway to Subway/gas station at this exit...last services on this route) You will CROSS China Hat Road shortly after you exit 97, DONT take China Hat Road, unless you are on a bike and enjoy several miles of rippled gravel. (see posts above)
Go 4.2 mile, on Knott Rd (NE)​
Turn right onto Rickard Rd (at landfill)​
Go 7 Miles, (last mile is good gravel) Turn right onto Hwy 20 E/US-20 E/Central Oregon Hwy​
Go 11.5 Miles, Turn right at Sign to OHV area, Continue South to camp 25)​
 
Just north of LaPine turn right on the 21 road to Paulina Lake, East Lake and the Newberry Crater National Monument. The 21 road is paved to East lake where it turns to gravel the rest of the way to the intersection with 18 (China Hat Road). This is the shortest (as the crow flies) distance from HWY 97 when approaching from the South and is very scenic.
 
Xcuvator said:
Just north of LaPine turn right on the 21 road to Paulina Lake, East Lake and the Newberry Crater National Monument. The 21 road is paved to East lake where it turns to gravel the rest of the way to the intersection with 18 (China Hat Road). This is the shortest (as the crow flies) distance from HWY 97 when approaching from the South and is very scenic.
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Like this.....
http://goo.gl/maps/Dr99v
 
My favorite is Ford Road from East Bend. I would call it a dirt Jeep road and super fun on a bike. Not recommended for Rvs or low clearance vehicles.
 
Motosportz said:
32 at night.
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Haha, yes, thank you. We tent camp out by Fort Rock / Cabin Lake every November for an annual 4wheel drive gathering, so we are prepared for it... by then the temps often get down to single digits at night! The motorhome is a 2-person style, so there will be some coin flipping / rock-paper-scissor / fighting over who gets stuck in the tent! :)
 
So many good choices... Probably play it by ear, and could depend on the weather. Currently it is windy enough here where dirt keeps blowing under my full face helmet and getting dirt/sand into my eyes.
 
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