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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Polaris sportsman 850cc quad

Bigbill

Bigbill

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I had two Polaris 400L (400cc two stroke liquids) back in '99. Today a freind let me ride his new sportsman 850cc quad. I was nervous after breaking my ribs three times in two years over a two decades ago. As I threw a leg over the seat my ribs were talking oh no not again. Lol but I told myself I'm going to go slow. What a difference in power with the big twin 850. I only used a 1/4 of the throttle in the snow she had awesome bottom end. What a difference in technology. I'm looking at there new muddier 1,000cc quad.
You need to realize I been bed ridden with back and knee pain. A quad should start me exercising then the bike should bring me to the next level.
 
I have a 2015 850 Sportsman Touring. It is an awesome machine. Can plow snow that would have stopped
my 500 in it's tracks. I recently pulled a huge log off the trail with it.......and was amazed at how easy it
did it. They are mild mannered compared to a dirt bike.....the power steering takes some getting use to.
I was use to being able to feel the road/trail up through the handlebars, but that goes away with power steering.

Nice way to get out on the trails and start working the upper body, and just get the reaction time tuned
up again. There are more ATV trails in Wisconsin, and dirt bikes are not allowed on some of them, for
bureaucratic BS reasons I'll never understand, so it's nice to have a choice to ride different locations with
either the quad or the bike. It kills me how they refer to quads as "bikes" over on the Polaris forum. Yeah right!
More like "tanks" or "Jeeps".

I can ooze down the trails and fire lanes on my touring, with the wife in the 2up seat crusin' in comfort.:D
 
The Polaris 850cc is a beast, gobs of never ending torque. I hammered it a little got sideways and used the power to straighten it out. The mudder model and the sport model also come in 1,000cc. I think the mudder model is geared for power.
 
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