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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Jason Thomas parts company with Fred Andrews Racing.

East Longmeadow said:
Hey Gus, what exactly do you mean? Trash talk on Husky? Bummer if that's true.
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...lets just say a few unappreciated comments from some folks working for/riding for KTM had some big mouths and unprofessionalism ...until the man with a Husky hat (me) confronted them....that's all I'm gonna put out there.
ANYWAY , LETS GET BACK TO JASON...the time I spent talking with him,he seemed a little home sick..and since he just got married,may not want to be here travellin' the states from race to race ,blah blah blah.I don't neccasarially think he'd give up racing...just doing it closer to home.The whole thing is weird...timing wise,but whatever his reasons..I hope it's in his best interest.I'm glad to have talked to him.

Guscycle
 
guscycle said:
...lets just say a few unappreciated comments from some folks working for/riding for KTM had some big mouths and unprofessionalism ...until the man with a Husky hat (me) confronted them....that's all I'm gonna put out there.
ANYWAY , LETS GET BACK TO JASON...the time I spent talking with him,he seemed a little home sick..and since he just got married,may not want to be here travellin' the states from race to race ,blah blah blah.I don't neccasarially think he'd give up racing...just doing it closer to home.The whole thing is weird...timing wise,but whatever his reasons..I hope it's in his best interest.I'm glad to have talked to him.

Guscycle
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Ah, I see. Thanks for the clarification. Damn that "Orange Army"! :thumbsdown:

As you said, sounds like Thomas's decision.
 
Hate to see UK go... he was all over Baylor at the Georgia GNCC. He hurt his back b4 Steele Creek and said it hurt worse than anything he's ridden through before including broken bones. Who knows maybe between his back problems and knowing a championship is out of reach in 2012 he decided to go home.
 
I knew there were issue with Husky and Jason several weeks ago. Truth is they hadn't paid him and he was getting very fustrated with the lies they keep telling you. Checks in the mail kind of thing. Nick had first hand experience with slow pay and no pay in the end. Talent pool going to dry up on them. Top riders know each other and they learn certain companies aren't worth your time.
 
littled657 said:
I knew there were issue with Husky and Jason several weeks ago. Truth is they hadn't paid him and he was getting very fustrated with the lies they keep telling you. Checks in the mail kind of thing. Nick had first hand experience with slow pay and no pay in the end. Talent pool going to dry up on them. Top riders know each other and they learn certain companies aren't worth your time.
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Not that I'm doubting your words or Nicks on this subject, and I'm not doubting your words, but how can a company of this size justify not paying an employee?

Its also illegal I'd guess almost 100% of the time ...
 
They are not employees, they have contracts. I'm more than willing to email you Nick's last P.O. they sent him that stills goes unpaid from last year. Believe what you want but you can't deny the fact, how many riders have quit Husky within months or middle of the season mostly due slow pay. Illegal maybe but only if you willing to go to court.
 
if this is the case, its just plain sad and theres no excuse for it. piss poor managment to say the least....sounds like some of the the fly by night construction operations out there.
 
WHITEROCKET5.9 said:
if this is the case, its just plain sad and theres no excuse for it. piss poor managment to say the least....sounds like some of the the fly by night construction operations out there.
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Sounds like the case of no integrity, maybe taking advantage of younger people whom you owe money to ... Maybe it is ~common place in this industry?
 
It's very common for riders to get jacked around on their pay, from just about all the companies. They are just contractors working for a company. Just about all of them have to buy their bikes from the company they ride for at a discount rate and hire their own mechanic. It's not as wonderful as it all sounds.
 
it's sad and seriously unprofessional, makes auto racing look good in comparison. but the bike industry has always lagged behind auto racing in all area's... That kind of crap does come from the top, so you know who to look for as far as placing blame...
 
youd be suprised about how little some of the crew members make. i know alot of them still have seperate full time jobs they go back to during the week. (obviously some of the big teams are different but there really arent that many of them)
 
Apparently unless you are one of the top racers in a series that has live TV, you are lucky to get paid to ride dirt bikes. Once at the pro level it must be hard because you need to devote full time yet you still may need a job.
 
water racer said:
Apparently unless you are one of the top racers in a series that has live TV, you are lucky to get paid to ride dirt bikes. Once at the pro level it must be hard because you need to devote full time yet you still may need a job.
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Supercross it aint... most of these guys are making the best they can of doing something they love. I dont think anyone is getting rich doing offroad racing. On the other hand, supporting some riders is just about the only effective way for manufacturers and dealers to advertise to their target audience. Its not like buying ads on Desperate Housewives would do much good (and would likely swamp the whole racing budget to produce and air one ad).....

To most semi-pro riders, getting something for riding instead of paying to ride is about as far ahead as they get. I cant think of 10 guys in the US who dont need a plan B to make a living before they are 30, and that includes MX racers.
 
He just showed up at the GNCC with a KTM out of his own rig. I am truly heartbroken, I loved rooting for him, now I feel betrayed. :(
 
He's on a KTM 250XC (two stroke). Think there needs to be a clause in the contracts Husky is signing. Guess it depends on if JT was fired or quit.
 
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