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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Two days in Death Valley

MorrisBetter

MorrisBetter

Husqvarna
AA Class
Ever since my trip to Death Valley in 2012 I've wanted to go back and pick up some loose ends. This week was that chance, so my friend Keith and I packed up the bikes and gear and headed south. Five hundred miles later we arrived at Stovepipe Wells. We checked the equipment and headed for the chow. Mmmmmm, plank steak and beer. Time for sleep...

We were greeted with this stunning sight early the next AM:

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Forty five minutes later and 6'400 feet higher we see the same sky from Aguereberry Point:

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A few miles south we arrived at the charcoal kilns built in 1897 to fuel a nearby smelting plant. I stopped and snapped this picture as soon as I saw the kilns;
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Thirty seconds later Keith arrives and points to the ground to the left of my bike, and I see this;
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The bad news is that the rest of the ride is going to be sans side-stand. The good news is that I know where it is.

Stay tuned, more pictures in part two....
 
"The bad news is that the rest of the ride is going to be sans side-stand."

IMG_0845.JPG Tread-locker will not keep it tight.
 
Radar said:
"The bad news is that the rest of the ride is going to be sans side-stand."

View attachment 38728 Tread-locker will not keep it tight.
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The bolt broke at the base of the tread so I would be SOL regardless. I will run a strand of wire through the springs and plate when I replace these parts. It was just dumb luck that the side-stand stayed with the bike until I stopped. I think my boot was holding it in place.
 
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