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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Finally went blue. white and yellow....

ray_ray said:
Is that a Suomy helmet? The ultra lite type?
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It looks like it is. If you're looking for the lightest helmet check out the Airoh's. I finally got to see one in person, it's the lightest helmet I've ever felt. Also, the guy who owned it (he buys new gear all the time) said it has the best ventilation of any helmet he's ever had. The KTM guys, atleast Milsaps team is using them. It's a Italian brand that Leo Vince started importing here. Only person on the forum I know that has one is Robertaccio but some other guys here may be able to tell you more.
 
ray_ray said:
Is that a Suomy helmet? The ultra lite type?
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Yes, 2.1 pounds.
dartyppyt said:
Have you ever thought of starting a women's riding club or organization that promotes the sport thru riding and lessons?
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I have been in clubs and groups for both street and dirt riding women. It seems that these groups loose their enthusiasm after a while, at least around here.
 
Dirtdame said:
Yes, 2.1 pounds.
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Maybe you can help here....I'm getting more and more neck pain thu the yrs and loss of movement in my neck it seems... I can't hardly turn my head from side to side ... Its just stiff ... After ~4 hrs out on the bike, the pain starts to show up just above my shoulder blades and after ~6hrs, I can still ride, but I'm needing beer for the pain and hot water on run down it ...

Can you or anyone tell it this light-weight helmet might help on this neck pain? ... I don't wanna end up in a few yrs with a neck that won't turn from side to side ...

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All you guys and girls going to the new colors are out Huskying me :) ... I'm staying back with red and white ...
 
ray_ray said:
Can you or anyone tell it this light-weight helmet might help on this neck pain? ... I don't wanna end up in a few yrs with a neck that won't turn from side to side ...

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Yes, the less weight you have balanced on top of the neck, the less leverage, force and strain it will have on your neck. This is the KEY reason I bought the Suomy. It is a wonderful helmet, that I hardly even notice while I am riding.
 
ray_ray said:
Maybe you can help here....I'm getting more and more neck pain thu the yrs and loss of movement in my neck it seems... I can't hardly turn my head from side to side ... Its just stiff ... After ~4 hrs out on the bike, the pain starts to show up just above my shoulder blades and after ~6hrs, I can still ride, but I'm needing beer for the pain and hot water on run down it ...

Can you or anyone tell it this light-weight helmet might help on this neck pain? ... I don't wanna end up in a few yrs with a neck that won't turn from side to side ...

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All you guys and girls going to the new colors are out Huskying me :) ... I'm staying back with red and white ...
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That's exactly what the guy said about the Airoh (the Suomy of course is another option). It helped with fatigue just because it was so light. So these lighter helmets may really help you out
 
~350 is alot for me to spend for a helmet, but I'm getting a little afraid of long term effects ... One part of my ride is to be 100% aware that I must get my helmet off as much as possible during the start of the ride to delay the 'pain in the neck' from starting ... once it starts, only beer or keeping the helmet off helps... They have some white and mostly white models also to ward off the heat.

Dirtdame said:
Yes, the less weight you have balanced on top of the neck, the less leverage, force and strain it will have on your neck. This is the KEY reason I bought the Suomy. It is a wonderful helmet, that I hardly even notice while I am riding.
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LandofMotards said:
That's exactly what the guy said about the Airoh (the Suomy of course is another option). It helped with fatigue just because it was so light. So these lighter helmets may really help you out
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I hope so and the Airoh (550.00?) helped already by making the Suomy look reasonably priced... :)

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Thanks!
 
Bummer DD I went to their web site and they did not have a section for riding gear...:cool: I was hoping to look at what they have and try and order some. Those riding Jerseys and pants look pretty cool.
 
We are using the Kali helmets, very light and fit nice. You really feel the difference after a couple hours - light is good. Mark tried one out with a high speed endo last year. Held up well so he replaced with another one, and I bought one too.
 
ray_ray said:
Maybe you can help here....I'm getting more and more neck pain thu the yrs and loss of movement in my neck it seems... I can't hardly turn my head from side to side ... Its just stiff ... After ~4 hrs out on the bike, the pain starts to show up just above my shoulder blades and after ~6hrs, I can still ride, but I'm needing beer for the pain and hot water on run down it ...

Can you or anyone tell it this light-weight helmet might help on this neck pain? ... I don't wanna end up in a few yrs with a neck that won't turn from side to side ...

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All you guys and girls going to the new colors are out Huskying me :) ... I'm staying back with red and white ...
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my secret weapons, AIROH Helmet, brux mouthpiece, lite weight breathable gear, rynopower supplements. 1st on the list, The helmet being light is a game changer I have one of the 1000g helmets.
PS I just bought the official Husky back pack mostly blu but wht and yel as well.

http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/christmas-2007-husqvarna-gift-ideas.htm

got one of these back packs,, hey that hat looks good too!!
 
Well DD and RA inspired me. Used my Rocky Mountain Race Gas cards and bought some new blue gear. Fly Racing F-16 gear. My wife always says I need new gear so she can find me at the races. Don't know what to do if this doesn't help :)

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