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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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, too, crashed my TR last weekend. Low speed, low-side. 6 broken ribs! Must be getting old! I rode the bike home - no damage other than bent shifter!
Heal quickly!
Having been there too many times (41 bones total) I wish you a speedy and painfree recovery. Don't do too much too soon. On more than one occasion I went back to my craziness (like wheelying my Z1 900 with a full leg cast on) before I should have and paid the price with a longer recovery. Glad to see you quickly came to your senses and didn't sell the bike. I did that and regretted it ever since (try finding a Z1R-TC for less than 25k these days).
I guess it is like the first argument with your ole lady. You wouldn't kick her to the curb, and after it is all sorted out the bond is stronger.![]()
Only thing is... After I kicked my first one to the curb I never wanted her back!![]()
Well, got back from the orthopedic office, and I go in tomorrow for the surgery. They need to put a plate and screws in. I'm going to have built in, "High Tech" crash protection.![]()
Hang in there bro...Don't be too hasty about selling the bike. Plenty of time to do that later if it's right. Not telling you what to do but you might not be in the right frame of mind to decide what is the right thing to do. After a close encounter with a Buick, 12 broken bones and 2 month hospital stay, I have had a similar experience. I ride now more than ever, just not quite as spiritedly.....well most of the time :-)I do want to thank everybody for stopping in, it helps alot. At one point I ran the idea of selling the bike, and quickly dismissed it. Trust me when I say, I know heartache when it comes to bikes.
I just received a call from the Orthopedic dept, and have an appointment for tomorrow morning to get the full skinny.
Glad you survived that one buddy. Good to see you're still "flying" around.Hang in there bro...Don't be too hasty about selling the bike. Plenty of time to do that later if it's right. Not telling you what to do but you might not be in the right frame of mind to decide what is the right thing to do. After a close encounter with a Buick, 12 broken bones and 2 month hospital stay, I have had a similar experience. I ride now more than ever, just not quite as spiritedly.....well most of the time :-)
How did your surgery go today, mag00? Hope you're pain-free...or at least on good drugs that will mask it all, anyway
I've had plates and screws and fixators and whatnot, and I feel for you, I really do. It's no fun![]()
Glad to hear it went well
I had local anesthesia for both my ACL reconstructions and it was a totally bizarre experience. I could see the whole thing on the video screen high up on the wall, and i could hear everything like the drills and such. I learned my ortho guy likes to listen to Paganini when operating, which was totally awesome! I have the surgeries on CD and I can hear my own voice on them asking what everything is![]()
Hey, we're all aware of what can happen on two wheels. And if we aren't, well, we should be.
What good is getting injured and getting cool x-ray photos if you can't share `em with your riding buddies? Seriously, that's one of the few good things to come out of getting injured![]()
I don't regret this at all at this time. What I find interesting is that I feel really alive. I have been shlupping through life the last 10 or so years, no risks etc, and this dag gone bike has woke me up again. The broken bone actually excites me. And that scares me.
My whole life, worried about this and that, well, "that" happened and the world did not end. Sure it sucks gimping, and it hurts and itches and is a major inconvenience. But I do feel alive, and that is not the drugs talking, (well maybe some) as I take very few of them. Ice is my friend.
Nice! Got any with the hardware? I have some nice shots. We should have one of those "Show Us Your Wound" forums here
Seriously, though, glad you're off the pain killers. That's a huge step!