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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

VCHSS round 6 Reddy Hole-A bad day for me, but my daughter saves the day!

Gotlabs

Gotlabs

Husqvarna
AA Class
Round 6 didn't go well for me, but my daughter's finish made up for it. I managed to pull the hole shot, and the bike refused to turn shortly there after which caused me to crash. Now, last in my class, I caught my riding buddy fairly quickly and was trying to make a pass on him and realized my bike was JNF'd. I couldn't get traction, backend was kicking and bucking, front was plowing through turns. I was stuck in 1st and 2nd gear since anything faster was scaring me. I ended up calling it quits halfway through the 3rd lap, I just didn't feel safe. My daughter talked smack all the way home about quitting, I am a big advocate of not quitting just because something is tough or difficult. No points for this race, bummer.

Thanks to my sponsors- Smith Optics, Gaerne, EVS, Cycra, FMF, Twin Air, DeCal Works and Pirelli.

I realized what was wrong on the way home. I had taken a Raines Racing class the weekend prior and we adjusted the sag to 90ish mm. I got home, and rode the bike on my test track and it was acting the same as it was at the race. I put the sag back to 110ish mm and tried it again, VOILA! My old Husky was back!

My daughter, on the other hand, raced her CR144 for the first time at this same locale and managed a 5th place finish (After she raced the mini race that morning). Not bad since I begged her to just cruise and get use to the bike (she only had about 2hrs of seat time on it prior to the race) since the suspension was brutally stiff for her weight even with the clickers at max soft. She did as requested at the start, but still came out mid pack, only to follow my footsteps and crash. She was in last when I first saw her, but soon made some passes to move up the ranks.

RESULTS!

Her only complaint was suspension was too rough, "It felt like riding a jackhammer through the woods" as she put it. I'll be getting it resprung/revalved during our summer break so she will be ready to go for August!

My pride and joy! (not the bike)
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This pic makes me look fast!
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Looks like you had a good family outing...:thumbsup:

For you...better luck next time.

And for the Racer Lady - Tell her Congrats for me!:applause:

How did she do in the mini race?
 
That bike looks familiar! And yes... the CR suspension is stiff compared to the WR. The re-valve will do wonders for her.
 
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