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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Street riding guys be careful out there.

IMO in the history of motorcycles there has never been a more dangerous time to ride on the street. On the other hand modern safety gear has made off-road riding much safer.
 
i think it really comes down to where to live i guess..
the most dangerous thing i usually deal with is animals or gravel..
 
Off road has always been my first love, road riding is just something I do to get more use out of the bike on a nice day. I think if I had enough disposable income I would only ride on the supermoto setup on tracks and maybe occasionally venture out onto the roads. Gotta say on a nice summers evening road can feel very nice though. I think commuting to a full time 9-5 during rush hour is where you are exposed to the most risk, like the poor guy in your OP. Dude didn't stand a chance and that really is sad.
 
When I was riding to work on my suz 1200 bandit there's two speeds on the highway, the cars and trucks are at 80/85 mph. To keep out of there way I'm up around 95/100 mph. The only way is to stay a fast moving target.
I think more bikers are hit at traffic lights stopped.

I sold my bandit because it wasn't fun riding to work anymore. I was going faster and fast to stay ahead of the cars.

I had a gal for no reason come across six lanes to cut me off. Her car was used as a weapon. Scary on a bike.

If I was to ride again I'd get a go-pro.
 
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