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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

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 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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wow and scary ... Sounds more like a vendetta than normal law enforcing... These people have at least bad-will at their core about motorcycles... This deep hate gives them power, so their behavior will probably continue till they are conquered or prevail on their conquest...

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Lots of angles to look at this issue ...And for the riders, the angle is the angle with the end-result being the only thing that matters actually. So what is the end result? Not sure but it will take another ~decade or so before all this gets knuckled down around your bikes throat enough to cripple it ... It's not gonna stop and I'll stay here and watch and listen to it from the sidelines ...
 
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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Tinken,

I did some thinking about this and though it is a BIG HUGH negative for those others in this accord, it MIGHT work out as a positive for Californians. Collectively, those countries represent a large market, and it might force manufactures to bring more models into compliance (rather than dropping models) and that would result in more models being available to the California buyer.

Just trying to look on the bright side. (getting more difficult every day)
 
Found this on the web ..

California is the only state that is permitted to have such a regulatory agency, since it is the only state that had one before the passage of the federal Clean Air Act. Other states are permitted to follow CARB standards, or use the federal ones, but not set their own.

Sort of sounds like CA is privileged ...
 
Tinken said:
You have no idea, California is a very liberal, wealthy and powerful agricultural state which provides most of the food stables for the rest of the country.
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I guess ... The south grows plenty but a little short of powerhouse status for those guys ...
 
The real criminal element here is that CARB is somehow allowed to completely bypass the legislative process. Both CARB &AQMD are supposed to be enforcing laws passed by Sacramento law makers or only ”suggesting” future legislation.

Somehow along the way our super liberal ” representatives” and I use that term loosely btw, just gave them the power to do whatever they want. This should be against the law, but when it comes to the liberal agenda, laws and the constitution aren't worth the paper they are printed on.
 
Huskynoobee said:
The real criminal element here is that CARB is somehow allowed to completely bypass the legislative process. Both CARB &AQMD are supposed to be enforcing laws passed by Sacramento law makers or only ”suggesting” future legislation.

Somehow along the way our super liberal ” representatives” and I use that term loosely btw, just gave them the power to do whatever they want. This should be against the law, but when it comes to the liberal agenda, laws and the constitution aren't worth the paper they are printed on.
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Your tax dollars being used to choke you out.
 
JeffV said:
Yeah, except for the unfortunate trend that as California goes, so goes the country! Right?
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Not the south ...

And ya gotta love the 1st world, right? The older and wiser(?) I get, the more it reeks to me personally ... That is me and me only ...
 
TemecuCoastie said:
Because we do.

Abbott Vascular just closed its doors in Temecula, CA. Cost of doing business I guess. I heard they were leaving the country and taking all of those jobs with.
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Tragic indeed! Well, I guess we'll be putting Chinese made parts into our bodies as well as our bikes. We all know how well that works out!

At least you still have the school district and the Indian casino providing high skilled, well paying jobs <sarcasm>. :(
 
JeffV said:
Tragic indeed! Well, I guess we'll be putting Chinese made parts into our bodies as well as our bikes. We all know how well that works out!

At least you still have the school district and the Indian casino providing high skilled, well paying jobs <sarcasm>. :(
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I could hardly p/u the sarcasm (:D).
 
Hey at least we have a growing industry with our Native American Casinos! Since it's their land, they would never export their own jobs.
 
Past transgressions aside (I'm part Cherokee btw) they are driving Benz n Beemers and doing better than their ancestors. I think its a good thing that they all totally deserve.
 
Sorry, didn't mean to offend. Just saying that the level of technical knowledge to work at Abbot Medical versus a casino is much higher. And, for me at least, a highly technical job is more rewarding than one that is not. Not to mention they tend to pay more.
 
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