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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Winter trail ride in So. Cal. 12/10/14

Dirtdame

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. Luckily, it's been raining a bit out here, maximizing the traction conditions of the local trail areas. We had partly cloudy skies last Thursday, and shirt sleeve temperatures out at Corral Canyon. And now, it's raining again, so we will have another nice weekend.

This is a view of Spur Meadow trail, from up on Los Pinos truck trail.


Another view of the same trail (upper middle right).


Mr. Threehoney, roadside.


We are braving the brutal winter conditions out here.:rolleyes:








Also the first time I have given chase to another rider, while trying to stay close to them with the GoPro recording. A little tough at times, since I like to go at tourist speeds, and Jeff kicks it up a little higher than that. Since he wasn't too familiar with some of the trails, I had to engage in the motorcycle version of backseat driving, two or three times to ensure that he took the correct route.:D
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o-m_T7jPtA
 
I need to get down there again. I raced mountain bikes a couple years in the rain there (Sagebrush Safari '04, 05). Some of the best riding in the SoCal Series at the time.
 
Pretty cool looking trails there ... I like'em wide like that ... might wanna make a pass or something..

For movie making, I'll follow these little bikes here pretty close but the bigger bikes I'm a little leery of rocks being tossed ...
 
ray_ray said:
For movie making, I'll follow these little bikes here pretty close but the bigger bikes I'm a little leery of rocks being tossed ...
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Usually I'm in the lead, and moving at a relaxed rate of speed. Even so, Jeff sometimes comments about eating roost from the 300. When following him, I have not had a camera running in the past, so I was able to mosey along at a safe and clean distance.
 
Being a movie maker is not always easy or safe :( ... It sounded like roost was pretty close to you a couple times when he was going some of those smaller jumps towards the end of the VID ...

250\300 2t are bad enough but myself, I don't even wanna ride with 450s on trails... They just toss too much from the rear tires ...

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This pic is from a rider on my 250cc 2t bike ...The tire on it was pretty worn and the guy had no boots on but was a good rider ...He eased through the corners and would gas it on the straights.. That rock started way-outside, to my right, and curved all the way across in front of me and missed ...I never got that close to him again when movie making.

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So Cal annual ride would be the best, what better place? I'd tow down for it and leave Siberia if only for a few short days. In and Out plus real Mexican foods what could go wrong? Let's get it on for 2015............
 
Weekdays are the best, but that probably doesn't work for most people. February, March are good months, still nice and cool and a good chance of rain. Discuss amongst yourselves....:cool:
 
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