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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Barreda's on a tear today. Fastest through the th first 5 WP's
Pos.N°NameMakeTimeVariationPenalty
1 005 BARREDA BORT (ESP) HUSQVARNA 003:41:09 00:00:00
2 009 PAIN (FRA) YAMAHA 003:49:32 00:08:23 00:00:00
3 013 FARRES GUELL (ESP) HONDA 003:52:49 00:11:40 00:00:00
4 030 PIZZOLITO (ARG) HONDA 003:53:41 00:12:32 00:00:00
5 017 BOTTURI (ITA) HUSQVARNA 003:56:20 00:15:11 00:00:00
6 001 DESPRES (FRA) KTM 003:58:44 00:17:35 00:00:00
7 026 GOUET (CHL) HONDA 003:59:09 00:18:00 00:00:00
8 020 GONÇALVES (PRT) HUSQVARNA 004:00:37 00:19:28 00:00:00
9 007 LOPEZ CONTARDO (CHL) KTM 004:02:45 00:21:36 00:00:00
Truth be told, I'm a big Caselli fan. But, he's just riding the wrong bike. How could I possibly, being cultist like many Husky riders are, pull for a guy on a pumkin when he's facing off against those riding Huskys?
Since you've made it a provincial issue....guys being from SoCal and all.BECAUSE he is a local boy from so calif Just like Chuck stearns,LR,Scot Harden,Paul Krause,Chris Blais,Johnny Cambell,plus the other guy who raced it last year and now signed to race for husky and now Kurt. All from So Calif who raced District 37
Do not know of any other american who raced it and finished as well as those guys
So it is ok to pull for Kurt just about everyone I know is
Per Dakar website:
Still stuck at the 72-km point since half an hour ago, Joan Barreda Bort looks like he has fuel pump problems.![]()
this picture just does it for me,how awesome is this bike & rider,im am nearly obsessed with the engineering of these machines & the whole dakar thing... Eight different Huskies in the race and 5 yrs of bad reports on this device ... I'd
but it will not help... Barreda must have been in pure agony as the clock was ticking on him ...
Per http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/
Perhaps the biggest upset of the day came for Husqvarna Rally Team by Speedbrain’s Joan Barreda, who ran into trouble with his fuel pump 72 km into the timed section. He set off from the start in strong position after his win in Stage 3, and was still in the top-four through the first 67 km. The delay cost the Spanish rider immense amounts of time and left him dead last for Stage 5. He fell from fourth overall to 54th and added over three hours to his deficit on the lead pace. Barreda will likely improve on his position as the Rally continues, but his hopes for a title in 2013 have been severely damaged.
Barreda’s teammate Alessandro Botturi, however, avoided major incident and was able to finish fourth in Stage 5, moving him up to seventh overall.
”I set out to win today, but it turned out to be more tricky than I’d imagined. I was unable to attack in the way I’d have liked because of the lack of visibility and the fesh-fesh, but it was a good stage for me,” said Botturi.
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