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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
When men were men...
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310huskyTE
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Yes but is it a,
Dirt Squirt,
Road Toad,
Super Rat,
Combat Wombat or a Super Combat!!
They must have had some good acid at the Hodaka office when naming their bikes in 60's and 70's.
Dirt Squirt,
Road Toad,
Super Rat,
Combat Wombat or a Super Combat!!
They must have had some good acid at the Hodaka office when naming their bikes in 60's and 70's.
310huskyTE
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Why would you name a motorcycle after a wombat??
Can't say i've seen to many of these go into combat! But i hit one on my 640 Adventure once, it was like hitting a solid concrete block, how i stayed on and didn't go over the bars i'll never know!!
Can't say i've seen to many of these go into combat! But i hit one on my 640 Adventure once, it was like hitting a solid concrete block, how i stayed on and didn't go over the bars i'll never know!!
Given that Hodaka corporate headquarters were in beautiful downtown Athena Oregon its more likely they were hallucinating from wheat dust or pea vine aroma.
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=athe...hnear=Athena,+Umatilla,+Oregon&gl=us&t=h&z=12
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=athe...hnear=Athena,+Umatilla,+Oregon&gl=us&t=h&z=12
I remember PABATCO!!!
I spent the first 10 years of my life within 30 miles of Athena...but I never owned a Hodaka, which I always thought was a failing on my part. I did race a Combat Wombat once and found it to be pretty much as effective as my RM125 Suzuki.
ray_ray
Mini-Sponsor
I rode a Hodaka once ... Not one of the cool ones mentioned here but it was brand new and had a 1st gear that was granny slow, a second gear so tall that felt like I had shifted to 3rd and wanted to stall, and I never tried to REV it out and shift to 3rd ...The area we were riding in was just too small ... I parked it and got back on my blue '73 125 enduro model yammaHammer 
Maybe it was a Ace as DB mentioned ... The guy who was selling them brought out 2-3 new ones in an effort to sell them to us enduro riders ... He was giving 'Demo Day rides' before they were invented ...
Maybe it was a Ace as DB mentioned ... The guy who was selling them brought out 2-3 new ones in an effort to sell them to us enduro riders ... He was giving 'Demo Day rides' before they were invented ...
Zomby woof
Husqvarna
Pro Class
That looks like a Canadian flag on his peak. I used to have gloves just like that.
The Hodaka story is really interesting. They were on the way out by the time I started riding, but I used to see those ads in the dirt bike mags, and wanted one so bad.
The Hodaka story is really interesting. They were on the way out by the time I started riding, but I used to see those ads in the dirt bike mags, and wanted one so bad.
HuskyTaylor
Husqvarna
AA Class
Those were the days. Motocross tracks were natural terrain,Castrol R smell in the air. Yea those were the good old days!
Yep. Rode in Levis and all leather boots. I finally got some real MC gloves one day and you know what, they were EXACTLY like those the dude in the picture was wearing. Such simple fun back then. Stealing dads chain saw oil for my MX100. oiling non o-ring chains with dumped car oil was "maintenance" back then. Blasting down the middle of the railroad tracks to Tims house to go "climb the hill". Tims dad started leaving cans of gas out for us because he was tired of the car always getting siphoned. Wow those were fun days.
Ill be danged. I had some of those too...probably all the dealers could get from Tucker Rocky or Wheelsports (something like that) back in the days before Parts Unlimited
I suspected others had those. Basically leather work gloves with a goofy plastic protector sewn to the top.
No one made them. That guy looks like he added a football guard.
The original Bell Star was around back then, but few people liked to wear them at that time. I had one, but peripheral vision, ventilation and overall comfort were not so great. Also, they weren't set up for anything other than a face shield. I couldn't wait to get a Bell Magnum and a Jofa mouth guard!
ray_ray
Mini-Sponsor
I didn't even like wearing a helmet back then at age 17 so I would have probably thought a full coverage helmet was not cool and too hot if I would have saw one ...
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That Kawi guy is an expert?
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Those look like astronaut helmets from nasa ...