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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Screw You Mother Nature!

jtemple

jtemple

Husqvarna
Pro Class
34 degrees and snowing outside. I decided to go take the new Tourmaster suit for a test spin:

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Tourmaster Transition Series 2 Jacket

Tourmaster Caliber Pants

Icon Pursuit Gloves

I came home covered in slush from head to toe. Inside, I was completely dry. The only thing that got cold on me were my toes and the tips of my fingers.

Short of heated gloves or grips, I'm not sure what else I can do with my hands. I was wearing Icon Pursuit gloves (waterproof & insulated) with fleece glove liners.

My boots are cheap Fly MX boots. There's no insulation in them, and I was not wearing any insulated socks.
 
Ya, that Mother Nature can be a cranky lass. Glad you got out anyway. It's Saturday, I finally have a day off, and it is (and has been) pouring down rain outside. :( So, I guess I'll play indoors today... the weather's got me motivated to finish the heated grips on the TE. If you haven't used heated grips you're missing out. I have them on a couple dirt-only bikes and they have revolutionized my winter riding. It's one of those "why didn't I do this a long time ago" things. If you don't know this already, may I recommend...

Get one of the brands that has actual left side and right side heating elements, as from Dual Star, and use their insulating heat shrink tubing under the clutch side pad. Other brands, and installations done without the insulation, tend to end up with a hot right grip and a cool left (left side heat gets absorbed by the bars, while right side heat is insulated from the bars via the throttle tube). Another good thing about the Dual Stars... they don't rely on an external resistor (that gets hot enough to melt nearby wiring!!) for the low-heat setting. Instead, it's built into the actual heating element.
 
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