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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Let's See Your Rider Patches

Kenneth Webb

Kenneth Webb

Livin' It Up!
Reading Motosportz "My ISDE Shirt, How Cool is That?" thread made me think of my old riding jacket hanging in the closet. I wore it back in the 70's when I was riding enduros, hare and hounds, and the local ISDT Two Day Qualifiers. This is my patch from one of those rides, and I'm not sure which. The first time I finished the first day, but was too whipped to do the second day. The guys who do this, even back then, are TOUGH! My second run at the qualilfier ended shortly after the start. We had to cross a wide flat field, but at the end, right at the edge of the road we had to cross, was a nearly vertical ditch that would no doubt cause an endo if you hit it at speed. I slowed down, but one of the big team riders behind me, and who started with me, ran right into my right leg. His wheel made contact right between the ground and my right foot peg, and my foot was on the ground. Man did that hurt! After composing myself for a few seconds, I rode on to the first checkpoint, including a lot of trail made by tanks running thru the scrub. This left a lot of trees laying crosswise and you just had to run right over them. We were at Fort Hood, a tank training base. I had to ride on one leg as I couldn't put any pressure on my right one. At the first check, I had to stop and got a ride to the hospital and a cast. The Penton team rode my 175 Jackpiner back to the pits. I was so stoked to do both days of this one, and had worked out really hard to get ready for it. Damn! Well, that's a long run up to my patch....
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LandofMotards said:
It was actually on FT Hood?
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Yep, right on the post. At the time the post commander was motorcycle friendly, and allowed riders access to the base for riding just about anytime there wasn't some heavy training going on. Let me tell you, when you come flying around a corner and right in your way is a tank, just idling while the crew take a break, it gets your attention. When I was in the hospital with that broken leg, some medics came into the emergency room to tell the folks that outside they had the body of a jeep driver who had been run over by a tank during training the previous evening. Evidently the tank crew didn't even know that they run over and flattened a vehicle. 'Guess the driver of the jeep never heard the tank coming due to the noise on the exercise. Sobering!
 
That would have been awesome! Even better if Ft Carson would do it :). I wasted so much time out there riding a sport Ike on boring straight roads when I should have bought an off road bike :)
 
I remember doing a couple ECEA Enduros at Ft. A.P.Hill in VA. You DID NOT ride through still water there, don't ask me how I know.
 
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