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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Registering / Title / Spark Arrestor ????

1Tuff500XC

1Tuff500XC

Husqvarna
AA Class
Since I'm working my way towards getting back into riding after many years out of it, I thought I better get up to date on some details.

Back when I used to ride in the 1980's, I don't remember dirt bikes having titles. None of mine ever did.

I understand the forest service in certain states are more strict than others, but in AZ (where I am now) and the Pacific NW (where I want to move)......I'm assuming I'll have to have any bike registered to ride legal. As well, I'm assuming I'll need a titled bike, what about if you just got a bill of sale????

Then, I always thought you have to run a spark arrestor to be legal to in forest areas. Do the now vintage spark arrestors cut it still? I thought I read something about a PC Nature Friendly low DB silencer, as though there are now decibel maximum allowable rules now. I'm cool if there are, just want to make sure I get the right silencer/arrestor combo.

Some input guys, on the bill of sale only thing. Registration to ride still offroad, or even on perhaps, and the noise/sparky issue. I'm a bit older now, and do care about our natural resources out there, so I'd like to be all legal beagal this time around. Not that I wouldn't still find some fun in dusting Johnny in his 4wd, which as I recall is a pretty big rush lol, just kidding. Gotta be responsible nowadays, I guess.;):thumbsup:
 
For topics like this, it is best to discuss with local riders who have gone this route. first is all 50 states are different and second, it gets harder and harder to do and believe it or not there are motor vehicle "lurkers" who visit these site to try to trip us up trying to "get it done". For pacific North west guys, maybe PM a couple or google the staes Motor vehicles web site. Sorry but thats my answer as things here in the north east have seen a rash rise on the second matter.

Hope you understand
Joe
 
Go to the link for information in Washington state. It's getting ridiculous...the best places to ride are on forest logging roads...but it appears that you need a full road-legal license to do so anymore. Read what's in the link...I guess it's open to interpretation as to what constitutes a "forest road". I think they leave it intentionally ambiguous so they can bust you to feed the local economy. Anyplace other than state or federal forest land, it apears that you can get by with just the ORV sticker...and you can get one provided you have a title or registration. If not, then you have to apply for lost title, etc. which may also entail inspection by the State Patrol (mandatory if out of state).

Welcome to Washington....one of the highest taxed and regulated states in the country. I live here, unfortunately. I ride desert or private property dirt. Some day I will probably pay the price of no freedom, but they'll have to catch a screaming maniac on a 500 Husky first!

http://www.nmaoffroad.org/licensing.htm
 
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