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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Well....it's been fun....

Dirtdame

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I bought my new WR300 in the middle of February. of course it wasn't jetted right, so I couldn't ride it until the correct slide, needle and jets arrived. Then it was time to get the suspension dialed in with the correct springs and valving....

Then....I rode the heck out of it for two months, tweaking things, fussing with the carb, putting on a better clutch cable and impressing KTM owners with it. I must have put twenty tanks of gas through it, and tried (but didn't succeed) to wear out the rear tire. I finally dropped it a couple of times, but no harm, no foul there.

And because Monday, April 30th was the last day of red sticker season, it is with great sadness that I drained the carb and the gas tank and wheeled it into the garage today to sit and wait five months until red sticker season opens again on October 1st. Then, we will frolic once more across the public OHV lands of the local realm that is governed by the California Air Resources Board.

But it was a heck of a two months!
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Oh yeah, I blew a fork seal a couple of weeks ago too!
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At least you can think about how good it is working and how much you enjoy it. What if there were still a couple of nagging unsolved problems?
That would really bug me, waiting for five months to figure them out..
 
PALMER84ONE said:
You know there are year around red sticker places. But non the less, it was a great season.. Sorry dame, :thinking:
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Like he said, not ALL places shut down red sticker bikes. But quite a few do.

BTW, that's a nice set of graphics you have on that bike. Where'd you get them?
 
street2dirt said:
In a weird sort of way that is so so sad, but great pics of a great bike.........
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It's sad that the government thinks my trail bike exhaust emissions are too dirty for certain times of the year.:(
JasonfromMN said:
Nice season. Back to the 450 then?
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Yes, time to roll the TE and the really old two strokes that were grandfathered in out for the summer.
McKay said:
Mexico is just across the road, they dont need no stinking stickers!
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They do need a passport though, and I'd need a group to be safe in, for sure!
Planepower said:
Oh? Is that what Cali does to 2 strokes?
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They "red sticker" any two or four stroke bikes manufactured for closed course competition that were built after 2002. All others (only four strokes) have to have an emission standards approval sticker on them from the manufacturer in order to get the green sticker or a license plate.
 
Xcuvator said:
At least you can think about how good it is working and how much you enjoy it. What if there were still a couple of nagging unsolved problems?
That would really bug me, waiting for five months to figure them out..
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Yes, I wanted to make sure that the bike would be ready to roll, when the season comes around again.
PALMER84ONE said:
You know there are year around red sticker places. But non the less, it was a great season.. Sorry dame, :thinking:
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Yup, there are red sticker places and I will most likely be going to my favorite one in July. But year round red sticker places are non existent in my neck of the woods. I'll have to travel 260 miles to get to the nearest one (Kern Plateau) that will be open all summer, and have to wait for the snow to clear off the trails first.
mnb said:
Like he said, not ALL places shut down red sticker bikes. But quite a few do.

BTW, that's a nice set of graphics you have on that bike. Where'd you get them?
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The graphics are from Decal Works. They are T9, and come in three color schemes.
HUSKYnXJnWI said:
Least you don't have winters... :oldman:
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If it weren't for winters, there wouldn't even be a riding season down here for red sticker bikes! I complain now, but it actually used to be worse. Red sticker season used to be from December 1st to January 31st for the first five years of the so-called program. Sheesh, a two month season. I'm surprised that they made it longer. It's no wonder that the popularity and sales of two stroke machinery was killed down here.:mad:
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Go North... we will let you ride in Oregon year round!!
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Woo hoo, and it's so pretty up there, too!
 
CARB is a waste of our tax dollars, they impose stupid rules and suck you dry of year around fun. Think of how many 2T gardening machines are ran per day vrs how many bikes. Makes no sence at all. But nany government CA will show you how they waste money on frivolous things, CARB and green/red sticker funds.

You sure have some nice looking riding down your way.
 
Sounds like a good time to bolt in the 6 speed

I'll post up a complete report when I get a few.
 
mnb said:
A red sticker 4 stroke makes no sense at all to me...
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Red stickers make no sense at all. Just another way for the "envriofreaks" to try to get rid of offroaders.
I used to get a little note with my red sticker when it arrive in the mail that said that my redsticker bike put out as much emissions per mile as 100 new cars. The way I look at this is that it's great! New cars are really quite clean, so 100 of them isn't too bad, plus most cars are operated tens of thousands of miles per year, whereas my dirt bikes usually don't see more than 40 or 50 miles a week. So I'm thinking that I'm really not a major contributor to any real pollution, and the sticker designation is just a pile of bulldooky.:busted:
 
Dirtdame said:
Red stickers make no sense at all. Just another way for the "envriofreaks" to try to get rid of offroaders.
I used to get a little note with my red sticker when it arrive in the mail that said that my redsticker bike put out as much emissions per mile as 100 new cars. The way I look at this is that it's great! New cars are really quite clean, so 100 of them isn't too bad, plus most cars are operated tens of thousands of miles per year, whereas my dirt bikes usually don't see more than 40 or 50 miles a week. So I'm thinking that I'm really not a major contributor to any real pollution, and the sticker designation is just a pile of bulldooky.:busted:
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A tree hugging envirofreak thinks of all of us on dirt bikes as "gross polluters." :doh: I would love to have a newer 2T and not be cornered on when I can ride. Heck, I wish I had a 2T with a plate. :D
 
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