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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

back in the day

Motosportz;134980 said:
I always wanted the "Bitchin" metalflake painted ones. :lol:

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You know, I had one very similar to that and even sported a bubble face shield on colder days. I also used to wear a hard plastic dust mask, It was something of a poor mans Jafra.
 
Dirtdame;134970 said:
Nothing wrong with open face helmets.:thumbsup: I raced in them for years and still like to wear them, although it's hard to find any dirt oriented open face helmets these days.:doh: Usually sported a weepul on the peak or the top of the helmet, like in this picture in 1976. Got my Jofa mouth guard and my Carrera goggles.
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Sweet photo Dirtdame! :thumbsup: 125 elsinore?
 
Daniel508s;135002 said:
Sweet photo Dirtdame! :thumbsup: 125 elsinore?
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Yeah, but it was the model that came out after Suzuki launched the RM, so it wasn't so hot....still, it would be nice to still have that little red bike today.:D

Come to think of it, I wish I still had the Honda team jersey.
 
YZ465 came with factory instructions that said not to try and turn one, serious rocketship with ugly manners. I still wear an open face although i lost all my Jofa's, where is Knobbie Shop International when we need them. Lancer leathers and Steve's Bultaco jersey even if you rode a Husky cr250 76 model. Duckbills ruled...... The events and tracks were much better, not as dangerous with all the Supercross style highflying. 4 in travel anyone?
 
pat ohara;135061 said:
YZ465 came with factory instructions that said not to try and turn one, serious rocketship with ugly manners.
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Most all bikes were like that back then. You learned to come into corners hot and brake slide the ass end. I still do it out of years of habit even though the new bikes actually turn.
 
Aberg..

I had a picture of Bengt Aberg in a full lock slide riding a 360 Husky in the 70's unreal talent on a bike that didn't slide. It was designed to ride vertical.:thumbsup: If you remember those yrs. and i know you do, all european bikes you had to steer them kinda like the Husaberg's of today. I still steer my Huskies today, never could get the hang of the Japanese method of slide in gas out. Cut and thrust like Ake Johnson's book which is not done that i can tell anymore, due to 4-strokes i suspect. CCM's could carve an arc though and the trusty Husqvarna CR.
 
pat ohara;135066 said:
If you remember those yrs. and i know you do, all european bikes you had to steer .
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Well, you didn't ever ride an early Bultaco Pursang or Sherpa S.:busted:
 
1973 360 pursang

Welllllllll, yes i did. The best motocycle i have ever owned was the 360 pursang, also the best looking. The new Gas Gas remind me of them, but your right they were sliders. Traded it in on the Husky { Mikola Replica } worked way better. 1975 or yesterday which ever.....:busted:
 
Motosportz;135064 said:
Most all bikes were like that back then. You learned to come into corners hot and brake slide the ass end. I still do it out of years of habit even though the new bikes actually turn.
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Yeah, I ride like that also. Hard to break old habits. Go thru a lot of brakes. Younger friends get a kick out of it.
 
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