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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Man down...again Buddy Jake

ray_ray said:
Jake, you hit the ground really hard and that terrain looks really packed down... I can't really tell what happened on the video ... I did see a flash on the speedo that looked like 40mph around the time you were heading into the crash ...

At the 1:08 mark, you cross a little wet spot ok, then at the 1:09 mark the terrain seems to have a couple small rollers maybe... Then it looks like the bars just crossed very badly and you were slammed down over them ... Do you know what happened?

PS -- Looked like quite a battle you guys were having ...
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See Jake, i'm not the only guy who doesn't see swapping, i am pretty sure you hit a squirrel or marmot.
 
ray_ray said:
Jake, you hit the ground really hard and that terrain looks really packed down... I can't really tell what happened on the video ... I did see a flash on the speedo that looked like 40mph around the time you were heading into the crash ...

At the 1:08 mark, you cross a little wet spot ok, then at the 1:09 mark the terrain seems to have a couple small rollers maybe... Then it looks like the bars just crossed very badly and you were slammed down over them ... Do you know what happened?

PS -- Looked like quite a battle you guys were having ...
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I went through the video frame by frame, the last time my GPS popped up the speedo read 39mph. That was a half second before my spontaneous ejection. What happened? A series of events added up to me losing the ability to maintain control of my motorcycle. AKA I ran out of talent.

OK beyond the smart ass version. I started swapping then the front tire stuck hard and I began a freestyle 180 at low elevation, it ended badly. Ok, that wasn't much less of a smart ass version. Here are some screen shots.

OK, so this is new info to me. I never backed up the crash far enough to see it. Up ahead Dick is right where I crashed, the Gopro makes it look farther than it is. I didn't realize the first of the series of rollers that took me down was muddy. That must have been what got the rear to step out the first time.
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49mph bounce, bars twisted...
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This one is a couple bounces later, I somehow scrubbed a bit of speed.
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Front end starting to tuck...
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Start of the low elevation 180...
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This may have caused it...
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Hmmm I seem to be facing the wrong way, I think this is about the point the bike bit me.
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Looks like I finally let go as I work my way in the correct direction.
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I got this, right... No I am not waving to Dick to come back...
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Yeah, that doesn't look right... Something is missing? Really, that is not the bike under my back as I am sliding? It is my right boot!
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So there it is in pictures, I will try to do a slow motion video in a bit.

montgob1 said:
See Jake, i'm not the only guy who doesn't see swapping, i am pretty sure you hit a squirrel or marmot.
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You really can't tell when all you see is the steering stem forward, I guarantee there was much sideways action going on in the moments before impact.

Later,
 
Motosportz said:
weird wreck, almost like you let go with your left hand.
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It is weird, as near as I can tell I didn't let go of the bike until after I was facing backwards.

Here is some slo mo and extra slo mo...

half speed... click for video.

1/3 speed...


Later,
 
I was looking at all the frames also ... I just could not see anything on the track to really cause anything to happen ... And yep, the end swapping play is pretty much hidden ... I still don't see why the rear would kick around ... maybe you ran out of bike? ~1st indication of a suspension \ bike that is topped out or badly tuned is side-to-side movement ... A.K.A -- you better slow this buggy down.

I'm not a believer in hanging on but sometimes it happens so quick, you just can't jump off ..
 
After watching the slow MO stuff ... Just a humble guess here ... Either you topped the suspension out in that section or had too much weight over the bars ...maybe both or some effect of each ...
 
ray_ray said:
After watching the slow MO stuff ... Just a humble guess here ... Either you topped the suspension out in that section or had too much weight over the bars ...maybe both or some effect of each ...
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Nope the suspension was not an issue, other than it was working flawlessly at the time. I just went through the video with sound a couple times... I have not watched that much at all. So, I made the dumbest mistake possible. I chopped the throttle right after that first wet woop when the bike first went sideways, should have kept it pinned!

Here it is with sound up until impact, no one needs to hear me whining.



Later,
 
Very weird. A very good rider on a smooth track and not out of shape until all of a sudden your on the ground. Almost like the ass end kicked over when unloaded on the little kicker and then a high side.
 
Motosportz said:
Very weird. A very good rider on a smooth track and not out of shape until all of a sudden your on the ground. Almost like the ass end kicked over when unloaded on the little kicker and then a high side.
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The sound adds to to equation for sure ... Still looks weird to me also ... Looks like you were floating over the first roller and gassed on the second one ... Nothing wrong with that ... But your a$$ kicked out on the first one ... I would not think chopping the throttle there would cause the a$$ end to hop out ... But you are going at high speed .... And we see the results ...

Modern bikes should almost ~never bounce side to side unless some obstacle is hit ... Or maybe like in your case, at some high rate of speed, things are a lot dicier ...
 
Yup, there it is, i had to really dig in the video codec to stabilize the image enough to see that guy..

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