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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Ok who was your favorite husky rider ?????

Heikki Mikkola "The Flying Finn" was also my favorite rider as a kid. I liked Husky's best as a kid and thought he was the coolest rider. I've still got one of his '74 500cc Championship commemorative buttons.

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I would have to say an Ohioan (Ricky Riggs). He was sponsored by Wetzel Husqvarna out of Mentor, Ohio. He'd be putting on his leathers, I would go sign him in, as the starting line took off and after a few short Harescramble laps, he'd be leading overall. He gave Frank Gallo some good runs. I caught up to Rick a year ago and he was still breaking horses!
 
I'm sorry, but my jaw just drops at the feats all these riders conquered. I think everyone mentioned in this post is just flat out "The Greatest".. They are all my favorites. To think they were doing all this stuff on those super outdated bikes. How dare any of us complain while racing a GNCC, HS on our new age bikes. I am deeply humbled by these guys.
 
Brinker343;13334 said:
I'm sorry, but my jaw just drops at the feats all these riders conquered. I think everyone mentioned in this post is just flat out "The Greatest".. They are all my favorites. To think they were doing all this stuff on those super outdated bikes. How dare any of us complain while racing a GNCC, HS on our new age bikes. I am deeply humbled by these guys.
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I agree....but those super outdated bikes were "state of the art" back in the day....especially with eric crippa doing the tuning

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I liked Mikkola too, but I really liked the tall, skinny American kid, Mike Hartwig. He blazed for a little while on a Husky, but then switched to a Yamaha and fizzled out.:confused:
 
Troy F Collins;13337 said:
I agree....but those super outdated bikes were "state of the art" back in the day....especially with eric crippa doing the tuning

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Cool photo!! Is that the peristiles in LA?


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Troy F Collins;13337 said:
I agree....but those super outdated bikes were "state of the art" back in the day....especially with eric crippa doing the tuning

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Thats a great photo No3 Thats Me. :thumbsup:
 
I have to admit that I was totally made up when I found out that Scott Summers had moved over to Husky. I'd just bought my TE and was googling for info when I found an article by him.

It was Scott who many years ago inspired me to persevere with my unfashionable and outdated XR600. I followed his commonsense tips on setup and riding and it all just fell into place. Top guy.
 
Coffee;51308 said:
Is that really you in the picture?
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Oh God No.
Better clear that Up Fast.

No3 is just my choice of plate #.

Must say I notice 3 is conected to Husky every where I turn not to mention they started in 1903 if I'm not wrong.

Anyway dont want to start any weegie board threads:lol:

I am not the rider in the picture I would more likely be the guy he just ran over.
Biggest claim to fame I have is ran over by Rodney Smith (Team Suzuki) in this years Hang Over Race, my problem was I was on a KTM:banghead:.
 
1980's dynamic duo: Larry Roeseler and Scot Harden.

Got to meet them back then and on one lucky weekend rode with them (correction - rode way behind them)
 
Praise for Husky off road Heros

I agree with all of the above comentes. for me the standout is Terry Cuningham when he ruled the natonal enduro series he was very stingy about letting other riders win, and remember throughout the 80's every Japanees manufacter had A factory enduro effort as did KTM Can Am. I think he could win any natonal hare scrambles or GNCC at any time had it not been for conflicts in team tactics.
A few others I like to mention Ron Bohn, Bill Kane, Ed Lojack. Husky has had A rich raceing haritage indeed!:thumbsup:
 
These were my off-road heroes-in no special order-Dick Burleson, Mike Melton,T.C, Ed Lojack.
 
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