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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Out and About (Terra, Strada)

If you mean the remains of that car by "old Willys" then I'd like to point out that it is in fact an old Land Rover :)

Nice area to ride around in that !
 
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Can you tell me what size rotopac that is?
 
I had a great weekend of riding a few hours south of home. Looking for single track we stumbled upon an unmarked mountain bike track. Darn hard work on a loaded up TR650! The track went for miles...

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Tight corners. Narrow passages between trees. Rocks and log top runs. It would have been awesome on a mountain bike. The TR650 shifter & rear brake lever copped a hammering!
 
Well it's been three weeks since my last ride. I'm still recovering & about to sort out some repairs to my Terra.

The short & sweet version is that early on in the ride, I hit a kangaroo dead centre whilst going 90+km/h along a well graded dirt road just minutes into the days ride. I remember a fleeting image of the kangaroo as it came out of the bush but all I had time for was the thought "Oh No!". Apparently I was knocked out for about 3 minutes and pretty incoherent for the next 5 minutes or so. Mumbling about how I wish I carried some pain killers in my tank bag. The two guys I joined for the ride were great and it wasn't long before my son arrived with a ute to collect the bike & take me to the nearest emergency department. The result is a broken collarbone & five broken ribs. I would have been in much better shape if I hadn't have left my spot tracker secured to the front strap of my camelbak. It was in the same spot as my broken ribs which can't be a coincidence.

The broken helmet looks pretty spectacular in my opinion. My mate reckons I lost a few letters from the side... LOODY H
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My bike ended up ok. The bars are bent (but they were a bit already). Lost one barkbuster cover. Broke the right mirror mount (I had already change the brake mounting to a standalone mount). The radiator mount may have cracked & somehow I lost the radiator cap. A few scratches, but all in all, the bike came through pretty well.

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I can't wait to fix'er up & get back out there! BTW... the kangaroo bounced off into the bush nearly taking out one of the other riders as they came up behind me. They are tough animals.
 
Whoa moma! That helmet gives me the creeps, not surprised you were out cold! Just glad the roo didn't see you off. Wish you a healthful recovery. I'm thinking you've seen the light so far as poly helmets go.
 
Thumpa said:
Whoa moma! That helmet gives me the creeps, not surprised you were out cold!
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It's the expanded polystyrene inside the helmet which does all the work. The shell only holds the polystyrene in place, stops the wind from whistling through your ears and gives you somewhere to stick fancy logos. How the shell of the helmet deals with an impact is probably inconsequential to the outcome to the rider, and in this case it appears that the helmet did it's job very well. Being knocked out for a minute or two after such a heavy head>road impact is probably a very good outcome considering the entire range of potential outcomes.

Chuffa said:
Apparently I was knocked out for about 3 minutes and pretty incoherent for the next 5 minutes or so.

Mumbling about how I wish I carried some pain killers in my tank bag.
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Good to hear that you're ok and looking forward to getting back on it. Hope the collarbone heals up nicely.

If you're going to go to the hospital, then taking pain relievers isn't really a good idea, unless the trip is going to be a long one (hours and hours), because when they're trying to diagnose you, they need to know where it hurts, and the pain relievers can disguise that. This is why in the ambulance they give you the green whistle (In Australia at least, not sure what they do in other places) which contains inhalable methoxyflurane (penthrane) which gives you an almost immediate relief of all pain, but is very short lived, so that you can pretty much suck on it in the ambulance, and by the time they wheel you into the hospital and a doctor comes to see you the effects are already starting to wear off.

About 10 yrs ago my wife crashed and knocked herself about halfway between Bourke and Hungerford. It was a reasonably hot day. Luckily someone in the group had a sat phone, so we could call an ambulance from there (It was about an hour's ride to get back to cell phone coverage). The emergency operator instructed us not to let the patient have any fluids or food. Not even take a sip of water, even though it was quite a hot day and it was very dusty. She was out cold for a few minutes, and then in a strange state of consciousness where she wouldn't open her eyes or interact, but would answer questions, for about 8 hours. By then we'd been ambulanced back into Bourke, checked in and out of the hospital there, and then flown RFDS to Dubbo Hospital, which is where she regained consciousness with no obvious ill effects (other than marrying me a few years later).

I almost always have a few Panadeine Forte in my 1st aid kit on the bike, but that's usually just to make me feel good enough to get on the bike and ride after a very big saturday night at a rally. That hasn't happened for years since I got wise to the effects of alcohol and how you can avoid them just by drinking low alcohol beer. Only took me 40 yrs LOL.
 
RidingDonkeys said:
I've always wanted to live there, but only for a few years until I got tired of the Winters. Norway is a beautiful place. MrsDonkeys laughs at how I am in awe of the scenery when we watch Lilyhammer.
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On a good day, it's a great place to be. Then you get weeks of grey drizzle on the west coast, and wonder why the hell you stay here...suddenly the sun comes out, all is forgotten and you can't understand how anybody could want to live anywhere else, haha! I guess it takes a very special kind of stupidity to keep doing that year after year, decade after decade!
 
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