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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

SMOG on ALL OHV! - a done deal!

ray_ray said:
Good luck on enforcing this new stuff ... Cops are gonna have to be mechanics now it appears ...
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I bet the BLM ranger that interrogated me last weekend (Standard background check before you unload your bike to make sure you haven't stole any dirt or sagebrush in the past) couldn't tell the difference between a 2T and 4T, let alone identify OEM smog equipment........I'm sure part of the new law will require labeling "THIS IS A SMOG THINGY. DO NOT REMOVE"
 
:thumbsdown::censored::cry:

I guess I wont be throwing the cannister in the trash afterall. Now I just got to remember where I put the mounting bracket for the stupid thing!
 
That is juuuuuust the beginning......look back when they first started smoging cars...every few years the exemption date would keep getting pushed back.
 
California has the tuffest air standards in the world,,every state and country will eventually have our standards,,it is very doubtful in the near future that a ranger will check each bike for smog equipment before you hit a trail,,there's not enough man power to cover all the rider's everywhere... I've been in the smog biz for 13 yrs,wait till next yr 2014 it's getting worse for the consumer,,tech's and shop owner's... :censored:
 
kjackbrown said:
That is juuuuuust the beginning......look back when they first started smoging cars...every few years the exemption date would keep getting pushed back.
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The exemption as of now is held at 1975 and older car's,,there's even talk of going all the way back to 1966 vehicles for smog's,,but i think that will never happen..
 
K.Forte' said:
California has the tuffest air standards in the world,,every state and country will eventually have our standards,,it is very doubtful in the near future that a ranger will check each bike for smog equipment before you hit a trail,................... :censored:
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I'd like to believe what you say is true, but California street riders out there may remember a few years back when they were those white vans where parked on the freeway on-ramps and where checking tailpipe emissions remotely and sending out "courtesy" notices (one of which my wife got one her old Mercedes). Well, that was about five years ago, I'll bet what fit in a van can now fit in the trunk of a car and run on LithiumIon batteries, so I could see it happening. Also, if you remember, around that same time, CARB was talking about mandatory emissions tests for motorcycles and giving the power to a peace officer to suspend your registration if you had tampered with the exhaust on the bike. Who knows!
 
Tinken said:
What is more disconcerting is for those not in California. CARB just signed agreements with Canada, Australia and China.
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Yeah, I read that headline today!!! didn't read the story. What is THAT all about? Wow the arrogance of California politicians!!!
 
JeffV said:
I'd like to believe what you say is true, but California street riders out there may remember a few years back when they were those white vans where parked on the freeway on-ramps and where checking tailpipe emissions remotely and sending out "courtesy" notices (one of which I got on my wife got one her old Mercedes). Well, that was about five years ago, I'll bet what fit in a van can now fit in the trunk of a car and run on LithiumIon batteries, so I could see it happening. Also, if you remember, around that same time, CARB was talking about mandatory emissions tests for motorcycles and giving the power to a peace officer to suspend your registration if you had tampered with the exhaust on the bike. Who knows!
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Impossible to get an accurate measurement of exhaust emissions by just driving by,,HC's CO's and NOX have to go thru an infered bench in the smog machine and you need zero air gas to purge the system (clean out the system from a previous test),,as far as motorcycles that's been suspended for now,,the state set's up roadside smog check's everywhere in the city's,, the police officer's have had that power for the last 30 yrs but they rarely enforce it unless you really piss them off... :eek:
 
The environmentalists have got governments and manufacturers by the short and curlies, so ALL bikes will just have to conform in future. And they´ll do their damndest to make sure that no bike will ever be powered up after-market (Europe´s already got bi-annual checks). Can´t think of a better strategy than to hold onto what we´ve got. No real prob for me, as I´ll fall off my twig at the latest within 15 years.
 
K.Forte' said:
California has the tuffest air standards in the world,,every state and country will eventually have our standards,,it is very doubtful in the near future that a ranger will check each bike for smog equipment before you hit a trail,,there's not enough man power to cover all the rider's everywhere... I've been in the smog biz for 13 yrs,wait till next yr 2014 it's getting worse for the consumer,,tech's and shop owner's... :censored:
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Probably right on the standards set forth by any world leader and the modern world will march forward... But where I'm at now, it ain't gonna happen anytime soon .... And if it does happen down the road, these guys are just concerned with living life and not any stinking badges ... I mean laws ...

huskyfrk said:
market will be big ford pre 2018 bikes. what we have now will be like gold. IMHO
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I already feel that way about my Huskies now ...ESP after the great ride today on my WR250.
 
Welcome to the People's Democratic Republic of California.

They can't ban things outright so they're just going to legislate the s*** out of everything you have/do until you have nothing.
 
I just read today cal will soon have the toughest gun laws in the country. I seem to remeber reading last week they will be letting out 10000 prisoners.

Hmm.

Its probably near impossible to find a uhaul in kalifornia.
 
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