• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

  • 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.

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    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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

out for a spin on the 400

Victoria currently has a "club rego" system where you join a club, then the club "scrutineer" can approve your bike for historic rego (bike must be 20+ years old) and he fills out some paperwork which you take to the rego branch and they give you the plate and a log book. $60 bucks for 45 days riding. simple. you fill out the log book and away you go. unfortunately, like all systems, this one has been flogged by unscrupulous idiots who have "screwed the pooch" to say the least. they form a club (3 or 4 mates), appoint a club scrutineer then busily register wild out of control imports with 500 ci motors and 20 inch wheel and drive then to work. additionally, a lot of people have bought old cars just in the age limit and use them as daily drivers, probably only filling the log book out for every second day. so its nothing to see a poxy old corolla, rusted and crappy looking tooling down the freeway with club plates on. Vicroads has notified clubs that this will change with it returning to the old system of club runs only. (until they do the figures as I reckon 75% of old classics will immediately be parked up or sold off cos they cant drive em where and when they want to).

so a lot of vinduros cover public roads and either red plate or recreational reg (allows all bikes to be ridden in the forests etc but not on the main roads) or full reg bikes can go. vicroads also has a neat UVP or unregistered vehicle permit which allows the use of an unregistered vehicle for 48 hours. so for a 2 day vinduro, you can get your mx bike and join in. you need to apply via the clubs about 2 weeks prior and costs about 50 bucks.

so its easy to get a ride here, they are "here to help you"

re flowing trails.. they were pretty open tracks except for the little kicker track, there was some really good single lane tracks but the go pro poohed itself then!
 
one of the best features.....how else do you expect to get up a hill:confused: its always a 0 rpm, paddling, struggling, last gasp effort:eek: with a few :censored: thrown in.....too old for 3rd gear on the pipe blasts these days....1 of those and I need a good lie down and a cup of tea:cool:

check out the desert rides (u tube channel "riders in the scrub") few more revs involved there
 
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