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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Yamaha 2t before expansion chambers

You must be older than I thought :) ...

I'm gonna keep my eyes peeled for another one of these engines that has some factory engraving ... Even if these machines are from the 80s, they have not been sitting in a garage and their hour count might be off the hr meter scale ....
 
ray_ray said:
That certainly looks like the same engine and frame with the air box and oil tanks in the same locations with slightly different design. No downtube in front of the frame and all the open space there, looks a little weird today .. But 196?, this was probably very cutting edge...

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As far as safety gear, I can understand no helmet in the mountains (now that I've been here ~5 yrs) with the slow speeds these guys ride at and even the old brakes .. But not the flip-flops... I can't ride without dabbing ... Yet, I don't see many blooody toes here on these guys ...

Here's a video of the old guy trying to roll that bike off to get it started ... No start and no fire at the plug ...
View: http://youtu.be/R4vta7I3miI

.. That other model walking up the hill is just another distraction you gotta deal with.
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I know what you mean about those other model distractions, I am married to one of those Filapina distractions. WOW!
 
Most if not all the women here do seem to have a ~good out-look on life ... You've been to these islands before? I'm sitting on Cebu just north of Cebu City in the thickest part of the island...

Centerline said:
I know what you mean about those other model distractions, I am married to one of those Filapina distractions. WOW!
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These bikes are all over the place ... Here's one that looks alot more stock than some of the others ...
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ray_ray said:
Most if not all the women here do seem to have a ~good out-look on life ... You've been to these islands before? I'm sitting on Cebu just north of Cebu City in the thickest part of the island...

Yes, many moons ago as a Marine attached to the 7th fleet on the USS Midway. The boat would fairly frequently tie up at Subic Bay. Visited Luzon several times in 1977 and 1978. Spent some leave time on Luzon and Mindoro. Really enjoyed the people and the country. Anyhow, it was years later I met my wife to be in Hawaii. She was actually born in Hawaii, but is fiercely proud of her heritage, tho never having been to the Philippines herself.



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These bikes are all over the place ... Here's one that looks alot more stock than some of the others ...
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That's a little interesting ... Your wife has never been here?

I was on Oahu for ~5 yrs in the service during the early 90s ... Hawaii is not the Philippines by a long shot ....


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The 70s again :0 ... I'm stuck in the 70s ... I'd guess you guys probably had a pretty good time dropping anchor here to say the least ... Not sure what was happening here in the late 70s but maybe not as many changes as one might think as compared to the states ... Back then, I know they had bikes and the roads were probably all dirt ... Probably as raw riding as it gets back in those days .. Today, the mountains are being covered in cement... For the best because these guys have problems moving around here the roads are so bad. But for a dirt bike rider, it just forces me off into the provinces more ...
 
The old two strokes/bikes were well made. The little engines were great on gas too. My first bike was a Suzuki ts185 I could ride all day on a tank of gas.
 
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