• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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head injury

ray_ray said:
I'm still going with common sense, a reasonable helmet and any wisdom I might have gathered to protect my melon ...

This is the track I'll be on tomorrow ... I'll be acting my age for sure and will strive to live to ride another day and remember the entire event as it will be fun ...


It rained last night so the track is very wet and the soil is clayey and sticks to your bike very bad ... The crowd here luvs mud races :0 )

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Looks like it's gonna be fun. Saw a write-up in MX in Mindinau. Kind of dangerous in that region, ain't it?
 
TemecuCoastie said:
Looks like it's gonna be fun. Saw a write-up in MX in Mindinau. Kind of dangerous in that region, ain't it?
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Yep, I'd advise not going to the southern part of Mindanao... Northern side might be much better but I'm not going over there either ...

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That track is well beyond me ...I'm gonna ride it for fun and we know right now it will be very muddy so air time will be low and rolling the back side of all those jumps is gonna cause some crashes ...
 
ohmygewd said:
my next helmet will be by this inventor (Aussie who had to go to the US to make this happen):
http://www.coneheadhelmets.com.au/

At the moment Kali helmet has this technology and when you think of it logically, a crumple zone that can take the heat of a bump before hitting your skull could be the difference in just seeing stars or permanent memory loss due to a blackout - l really hope the cone-head technology becomes the standard as there really hasn't been any innovation in the actual foam padding in the helmet for eons.
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There isn't a lot of information on that page that says why it would work better than "current" helmet technology. I am sure that there has been plenty of innovation on the chemistry/materials side of helmets, as far as developing better foams, but it's not all that visible to the end user.

If the guy is going to sell a "better" helmet, it's pretty easy to do some certification testing or some back-to-back impact testing to show that his design is superior to "conventional" helmets...

Current helmets do use the "crumple zone" model, that is why you need to retire them after a crash or a bad drop, because the material gets compressed and cannot protect as well in the future.
 
Kyle Tarry said:
There isn't a lot of information on that page that says why it would work better than "current" helmet technology. I am sure that there has been plenty of innovation on the chemistry/materials side of helmets, as far as developing better foams, but it's not all that visible to the end user.

If the guy is going to sell a "better" helmet, it's pretty easy to do some certification testing or some back-to-back impact testing to show that his design is superior to "conventional" helmets...

Current helmets do use the "crumple zone" model, that is why you need to retire them after a crash or a bad drop, because the material gets compressed and cannot protect as well in the future.
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It's pretty easy to test certification if your a large helmet supplier but when you are struggling inventor who had no finance backer, manufacturing 1000 helmet shells (cannot use another brand's helmet) and then lining them with his technology is quite a lot of money hence he teamed up with Kali helmets whom have produced helmets with his innovation and successfully certified them in DOT and ECE.
I'm not here to promote these helmets but l'm a supporter of Don Morgan innovation who has spent his lifetime studying motorcycle accidents particularly helmet related trauma...anyone trying to improve the safety of the rider rather then line the pockets of manufacturer's has my vote!!
This video provides a better background on the man and his innovation.
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4e45dXrB9k

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtZZ-2YJfQY
 
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