• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Round 3 - November 7-11 2012

MoombaRdr said:
Brew pubs and hot tubs do sound good, but it is camping this time. Don't want to have to drive back and forth. It will be a great time any way you guys do it.
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There's always a downside... Man boobs at the Hot tub :) speaking of myself of course.... LOL!
 
Regarding fuel prices, if you are coming from the south.
Pilot station in Dunnigan (I5 & I505 intersection) remains a good value, at least compared to what I had been paying (4.26/gallon) near where I live. 3.78/gallon?
Pilot station a couple of miles south of the 97/Weed turnoff, it was 3.95/gallon.
Farther up I5 in Oregon it is much cheaper, 3.58/gallon at an Arco in Salem for instance.

But I've no idea how fuel prices are up 97 from the Weed turnoff off of I5, which is the way to go to bend, because I did not go that way.
 
Coffee said:
Regarding fuel prices, if you are coming from the south.
Pilot station in Dunnigan (I5 & I505 intersection) remains a good value, at least compared to what I had been paying (4.26/gallon) near where I live. 3.78/gallon?
Pilot station a couple of miles south of the 97/Weed turnoff, it was 3.95/gallon.
Farther up I5 in Oregon it is much cheaper, 3.58/gallon at an Arco in Salem for instance.

But I've no idea how fuel prices are up 97 from the Weed turnoff off of I5, which is the way to go to bend, because I did not go that way.
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ARCO stations are always an outlier, require cash or add a card fee. For the most part Oregon gas has been in the $3.80 range lately..you can try here for the latest.
http://gasbuddy.com/
 
oregonsage said:
If anything the trend appears to be getting warmer and drier. Light snow is actually ideal for China Hat.
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Going to be a little cold but perfect for traction / trail conditions which will mean you can actually ride with your buddies instead of a 1/8th miles behind waiting for the dust to settle. Should be real fun. Will be at the staging area around noon Friday if all goes well.
 
Yeah, for me half of the enjoyment comes from the camping. I remember the mulltiday cross country ski trips years ago and realize I'm becoming a wuss staying in an RV.
I can totally understand staying at the Red Lion with the gas prices the way they are and taking an RV over the passes when it's snowing.:)
 
Motosportz said:
Going to be a little cold but perfect for traction / trail conditions which will mean you can actually ride with your buddies instead of a 1/8th miles behind waiting for the dust to settle. Should be real fun. Will be at the staging area around noon Friday if all goes well.
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I just hope this warm air has dried up any puddles before they refreeze and get covered with fresh snow.
 
Xcuvator said:
Yeah, for me half of the enjoyment comes from the camping. I remember the mulltiday cross country ski trips years ago and realize I'm becoming a wuss staying in an RV.
I can totally understand staying at the Red Lion with the gas prices the way they are and taking an RV over the passes when it's snowing.:)
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Yep, I really dont want to drive the motorhome in a mountain snowstorm....especially when I own an all-wheel drive car :-)

I will be staying in Bend this time as well. Probably make my first foray out to 25 on Th afternoon and repeat daily. Im bringing the 511 with Watson Suspension so y'all can take a sample and I think the Watson folks from Hood River will show up on Saturday. And the ETRA club from Eugene will be joining us on the weekend.

As Kelly says, a little snow makes it so we can ride together instead of being massively spaced out (that is a technical term)
 
I will be rolling in with Russ. I am bringing my 511 suspension done ltr, rekluse left hand rear brake and efm auto clutch.
 
oregonsage said:
Yep, I really dont want to drive the motorhome in a mountain snowstorm....especially when I own an all-wheel drive car :-)

I will be staying in Bend this time as well. Probably make my first foray out to 25 on Th afternoon and repeat daily. Im bringing the 511 with Watson Suspension so y'all can take a sample and I think the Watson folks from Hood River will show up on Saturday. And the ETRA club from Eugene will be joining us on the weekend.

As Kelly says, a little snow makes it so we can ride together instead of being massively spaced out (that is a technical term)
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It is a technical term that could be used for describing some Brew Pub patrons on Saturday mornimg.
 
What I lack in speed I make up for in.... in something, just can't think of what that might be at the moment! :doh:
 
A few things, in case anyone has any input...

California dreaming...
If anyone wants to come down from the PNWet to the (relatively) balmy conditions in California to ride and/or create some trails on some virgin land find me let me know. Link in case anyone missed it:
http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/cafe-husky-corporate-offices-have-moved.22133/


Riding stuff
It would be great to get several peoples input regarding a bike trailer I picked up yesterday. Pull it on various terrains with various loads in it. Test drive it :)

Depending on what bikes are there, I might ask to take a quick test ride, seriously re-thinking what to add to the stable (garage) at the moment.


Cafe Husky stuff
If anyone has any input for me regarding CafeHusky.com, please give it. Things like:
What is good
What could be improved
How a Supermoto or Street bikes forum could be used ?
What happens when people reply to the Conversation (PM) notifications which are sent from no-reply@cafehusky.com
How things operate behind the scenes
The history of cafe husky, why it was started, and where the future might lead - and what external forces are at work determining the future.
Pretty much anything


 
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