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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
i sprained my knee early spring first time ever, and have done it now 4 or 5 times to the right knee(had mri and paid to be told nothing is wrong pffft) and 2 or 3 light sprains to my left knee since... i guess mid thirties is officially when you start goin to hell huh lol i narrowed it down to havind my foot rotated when coming up from a knee. basiclly i wear a soft sports knee brace now when working and the soft evs braces when riding. oddly enough none of my knee probs have come from riding but all started shortly after i started riding again in spring
+1 for strength training. That'll help keep you injury free, along with the myriad of other benefits that go along with it.I have had knee surgery along with 5 other surgeries including pinning a broken femur. I have a DonJoy knee brace that I'm supposed to wear when I'm doing anything that taxes my knee. This knee brace is the real deal, like you see the pro football players wear, but unfortunately it won't fit under my riding pants and has no armor to protest against rocks and trees. I have coached and played tennis for the past 12 years and discovered that the number one thing you can do to protect your knee is get fit strengthening your quads and hamstrings and work on being flexible. I only needed my brace for support when my legs were not in shape. As of now I do wear the $18 dollar shin/knee guards in case I have a get off in some rocks. If I could attach armor to my ($1,500.00 for one knee) brace I think it would lessen the odds of injury but the bulk of it would not be practical while riding. I have looked at some of the high end braces and some look to have value but fit is everything and mail ordering a brace is a gamble I have not yet decided to take.
I would be the perfect candidate for testing a brace, I'm old, beat up and crash a lot so if any makers of really good braces are out there listening PM me.
A good set of well-fitting braces (Asterisk, POD, customs) will help prevent hyper-extension of the joint side to side, twisting, and oposite normal extension. The primary job of a good brace is to prevent hyper-extension... not to protect from impacting things. I would avoid the RS-8's. A friend went through 2 pair in several months. Each pair broke at the hinge mechanism. Plastic hinge lever snapped in two. Thankfully, Cycle Gear exchanged the first set, and refunded his money when the second set failed.
