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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Out and About (Terra, Strada)

A couple of days spent in the south west of my state.

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It was great to get away for a few days but I could've done without the broken leg received on the 1st day. Luckily it's the fibula so I was able to suck it up & finish the few days ride.
 
Came across a brand new Terra in the parking lot of the Missile Defense Agency today. Not a scratch on it. Not even a scuff where your boot heels rub. Looked so much nicer than mine. I left a business card. I'm betting it has not had an airbox mod or the swingarm drilled...
 
MotocycleWriter said:
Came across a brand new Terra in the parking lot of the Missile Defense Agency today. Not a scratch on it. Not even a scuff where your boot heels rub. Looked so much nicer than mine. I left a business card. I'm betting it has not had an airbox mod or the swingarm drilled...
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If it is a 2014 bike it wont need the swingarm drilling - take a closer look. Husky took note of the defect, but instead of fixing the root cause they left out a small part of the weld at the wheel bolt recess thereby creating a drain hole on later bikes.
 
I planned on a full day of exploring around NW Florida, north of the Panama City area.
Taking in as many dirt roads as I could and to try to find a few places I have wanted to check out but never seemed to have the time.
I enjoy this time of the year as we have a wild flower bloom here that makes even the mundane straight stuff kind of pretty.


As you get closer to the Alabama border you come across a lot more cotton fields.

Quite a few had already been harvested.
This one was being worked as I was there. A dad with this daughter riding along in the harvester.

Only in Florida do they feel the need to actively warn you that a road may have some hills and turns in it.

I know winding roads are a rarity and I have to say I did find the local traffic was a bit slow.

Made my way on to a spring head I have wanted to visit for a few years now.

The divers in the area said there is a cave down there and that it was about 45 feet deep.
I am going back with my Kayak & snorkel gear. Really pretty spot.

Now on to the unexpected find of the trip.

On one of the roads I saw evidence where another motorcycle had gone through.
Lots of squirrelly tracks where ever the sand got deep.
My first thought was a noob ADV rider on his behemoth with street tires.
I had to follow these tracks and see where this guy was going.


About 1/2 mile in I saw where whom ever it was had crashed pretty good, then just over the next small hill I found the bike:

I was really hoping I was not going to find the rider pinned under it.

I called out to see if the rider was in the area.
Scouted around the area too and hit all the connecting roads.

You will note my own tire tracks in some of the photos above as I went back and forth trying to find this guy and/or foot prints.

When I returned home I sent the photos (including one of the plate) to the county sheriffs office along with the GPS location.
I still dont know if this bike was stolen & dumped or just a poor kid trying to get to one of the area lakes to fish and got over his head.
I cant imagine leaving my bike like this, as it was somewhat up upside down on that hill.
There was no evidence that it was ever on its side-stand.
Hoping the sheriff will let me know.
 
Dang, that had to be a gutt sinking experience, you were looking for a fun fishing hole and run across a suspicious incident with a bike.

Hope everything is alright, maybe just a tip over and couldn't pick it up. Probably got hurt and had to walk out.
 
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