• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TE511: 1, Pickup truck: 0

Cosmokenney

Cosmokenney

Husqvarna
Pro Class
It was raining today, and we were riding in the back county (kinda). I was on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere. Was going downhill in the middle of a pretty narrow, sharp turn and whammo, there is a pickup truck. I hit the front brakes and slid in the slick red mud hit is right front bumper.

Dented the bumper. Broke his turn signals. Broke his headlight assembly. Tore the plastic air dam off the bottom of his bumber.

Scratched my front fender. That's it. No other visible damage. WTH?

I rode the bike out to the pavement. Was hitting speeds of 60 MPH on the way back to the truck. No wobble, nothing.

It kinda looks like my axle is a little tweaked, but I'm in too much pain to pull it at the moment.

But I would appreciate any advice on what to look for mechanically.
 
Mostly sore. I somersaulted over the front of the truck missed the hood and landed on my lower back, on the side of the road. Somehow in the middle of that I sprained my wrist. Speeds weren't all that high. Just got done nursing the opposite side of my lower back not a week ago. I'm doomed to miss every ski season. Oh well, at least I'm home with my son. That's all that matters.
 
Same thing happened to a buddy of mine when we were riding down in Mexico. Truck was ok but HE broke his hand. Could have been WAY worse. (I always worry about that kind of stuff now.....)
 
I hit a car on my yz 250 back in 86 at walker valley in Wa state not near as lucky as you were.Broke my Femur and did 2700$ to the car I hit. You are a very lucky man.
 
Wow, that's unfortunate, glad you're ok. Anytime a car and bike tangle the odds of the bike coming away unscaved are not great. Was he cool about it after ? Assuming you stopped to talk about it.............
I had a similar experience about fifteen years ago on North-South Rd (which is pavement) on my KLX650. Came around a blind turn looking at a logging truck head on. I did a powerslide and slid off the side of the road
and luckily skidded into a tree stump which saved me from going off the side of the mountain. Aside from a few scratches both me and bike came away unscaved.
 
Glad you're ok Cosmo.
That isn't a great way to end a ride.
I'd have a good look over the triple clamps for signs of cracking & the fork tubes where they go through the clamps, but sounds like a lucky hit with you & the bike not too bad! :)
 
Wow, well first take care of you, then worry about the bike. But from what you described it seems the truck surely lost that one! I've crashed hard a few times and didn't really notice how tweaked my bike was until I had a chance to look at it much later. The adrenaline plus telling yourself "I'm stoked to be alive and can still ride my bike! Now I just gotta make it back before the pain really sets in." can make any bike feel great after a good get off.

I feel ya on the ski season thing. I've had a couple chances to go rip it up lately, but we've had a family ski trip planned for the last six months that's coming up next week. I could just see me f%@kin myself up just in time, so I took a zero.:naughty:
 
Sounds scary and good you are ok ... So the truck got stopped before it ran over the bike and you launched yourself or were bucked up and over?

Forks, maybe the rim should be checked at least ... Sounds like you dodged the worst of what could have been ...

Don't know what your pain is but after 2 days or so if it still hurts, just go to a DOC.
 
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