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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

The Pacific Northwests finest trails

whoa big foot********************************************************************************!!don't mess wit da sasquatch!!! You guys have some beautiful ride zones, thx for post, very very nice.
 
Sasquatch loves hiding in the bushes taking pictures at the most inopportune technical moments...very crafty animal...especially on a Husky!
 
Nice picture! I'm always jealous of your smooth style riding. You seem to be doing a lot of MX this year...cool. I bet that has really added to your speed on the trail!

David

jmetteer;52750 said:
I end up using the husky as my race bike and grabbing whatever I feel like riding when I go trail riding.:thumbsup:

from a couple weeks ago...
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fitness2go;52775 said:
Nice picture! I'm always jealous of your smooth style riding. You seem to be doing a lot of MX this year...cool. I bet that has really added to your speed on the trail!

David
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The TXC makes the Motocross stuff almost easy, I have never been on a bike I felt so comfortable jumping. :applause:

My speed on the trail was limited by my corner speed. One of my goals when I started riding MX was to improve my corner speed. I am still pretty slow in the corners compared to most MX guys but can hold my own and it has helped a bunch on the trail. :thumbsup:

Later,
 
Sorry to get off topic, but... So what do you do to practice corner speed? Also, what percentage of the time do you stand into corners compared to sitting? I find that I sit in corners when the turn is flatter and stand when there is a berm, but overall I stand much more than I used.

I thought your bike felt amazing on jumps and in the air (good balance front to back)! To date, it is the best bike I have ever ridden. I want to get into MX (no crazy doubles) for the fun of it and it's great for training/working out. I also want to get into trials.

David
 
fitness2go;52774 said:
Sasquatch loves hiding in the bushes taking pictures at the most inopportune technical moments...very crafty animal...especially on a Husky!
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I have no idea what your talking about :cool:
 
fitness2go;52779 said:
Sorry to get off topic, but... So what do you do to practice corner speed? Also, what percentage of the time do you stand into corners compared to sitting? I find that I sit in corners when the turn is flatter and stand when there is a berm, but overall I stand much more than I used.

I thought your bike felt amazing on jumps and in the air (good balance front to back)! To date, it is the best bike I have ever ridden. I want to get into MX (no crazy doubles) for the fun of it and it's great for training/working out. I also want to get into trials.

David
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I worked on braking less and carrying momentum through the corners. Those fantastic husky brakes are able to slow me down a bunch more than I really need.:lol: Also I worked on getting back on the throttle much earlier while still leaned over, that was the hardest part for me.

For me I try to stand in the fast corners and sit in the slow ones. I have poor form though, my really fast friends are always trying to work on my body positioning. When I get tired I go into trail rider mode, sit too much and drop my elbows.

Getting the corner speed up helps a ton on those crazy doubles, I said I would never do them also... One practice track I rode has a 75 foot triple with a nice safe downhill landing. No problem, I even over jumped it a few times.:eek: There was also a 60 foot triple out of a corner that I never got comfortable with. I did it one time and came up a little short, so I left that for another day. Then I found out it took my friend Larry a year to do it and he is an expert/master class MX rider... :doh:

Trials has been replaced by MX this year, not enough time for all the cool riding opportunities.:cool:

Later,
 
Great movie guys,
It was like that once upon a time here in No. Cal. Now you hit gates every mile. I could almost feel the cold air on my face.

One thing about the woods, you get really strong, makes all other riding feel easy.

Was that a WR300? Nice and healthy sounding.

C ya Jim
 
A champion day and a very entertaing vid-thank you. Your riding area is really great.
 
Great riding in Washington and Northern Oregon. There are no single tracks or anything decent in the Southern Oregon area. :thumbsdown: Remember to just keep coming up to Washington and Northern Oregon if you want a good ride. :thumbsup:
 
Im going to disagree with oregontrail on that ....

My advice for riding in Oregon is 'go east young man'. I like the open spaces and lack of mud. China Hat offroad area outside of Bend is a good place to start, but there are dirt roads all over central and eastern oregon with trails off of those.
 
oregonsage;53479 said:
Im going to disagree with oregontrail on that ....

My advice for riding in Oregon is 'go east young man'. I like the open spaces and lack of mud. China Hat offroad area outside of Bend is a good place to start, but there are dirt roads all over central and eastern oregon with trails off of those.
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Ok, you're right, just don't stop in Southern Oregon, nothing here to see. :banghead:
 
fitness2go;52779 said:
Sorry to get off topic, but... So what do you do to practice corner speed? Also, what percentage of the time do you stand into corners compared to sitting? I find that I sit in corners when the turn is flatter and stand when there is a berm, but overall I stand much more than I used.

I thought your bike felt amazing on jumps and in the air (good balance front to back)! To date, it is the best bike I have ever ridden. I want to get into MX (no crazy doubles) for the fun of it and it's great for training/working out. I also want to get into trials.

David
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Trials! I can balance (at a stop, on level pavement) for about 23 seconds now! sometimes:lol:
I went to a event last weekend in ridgecrest, there's another in Sonora CA this weekend.
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PC, sat down with my husband and watched your video last night; beautiful country! Enjoyed the ride very much, but a couple of those off cambers with a drop off to hell made my stomach start hurting.:eek: Massive trees and looks like they're still logging that area. Don't like the logging, but as long as they log an area, they should allow riding in it too. Good stuff, thanks for posting. What are you riding btw?
 
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