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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
B1K Class 22 #10X
- Thread starter JimO
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JimO
Husqvarna
AA Class
Just home from Baja last night, slept all day today, just logged on and noticed this thread grew since I last saw.
Well 10x made it. We finished the race with a few bike problems and we all made it home safe to tell the story.
My last post I was trying to get my Husky ready to race but still had some issues with EFI so we rode a Honda CRF-X. A good motor in those bikes but Husky still has them beat in the overall package. Any way, to give a brief overview, our race went good a couple flat tires really slowed us down a bit. Our team was made up of 5 riders and 2 of them had to back out right at the last minute making us scramble. So we found 2 guys to fill in but not the caliber of the lost riders. So game plan is to compete and finish the race especially after the bad outing in last years race.
Course was fast in the North up to about San Ignacio, super silty, rocky, and foggy in the South through San Javier. The fog started in Insurgentes and continued down past Santa Rita that really slowed everyone down.
We tried to do a lot of rider changes just to keep things fresh but as anyone who has done this race knows that it will be a logistical nightmare and your plan will get all f ed up in a hurry. Heres what happened:
We did 3 rider changes all before San Felipe, I got on at San Felipe to bang out the whoops, go through Puertecitos, Gonzaga and hand the bike to one of the North guys at Cocos. We all know that those 3 riders will never be able to catch the race having to take the VdTrinidad crossover to Hwy 1 then head South to Cocos Corner. I tried to tell them but they thought it would work. I had my own contingency plan.
I got a flat front tire just coming into Baja Pits at the Pemex in Gonzaga. Lucky for them Im buying them some travel time. It took us some time to fix because I could not find any tools that would work, finally Im away with a stock skinny tube in the front. Come into Cocos make a sat phone call to the guys they are just leaving El Rosario, Im thinking great Im gonna end up iron manning the rest of this thing. So I take it through Frog Canyon wash after Cocos and into that fun sandy section before hitting hwy to BoLA. Another flat, I probably pinched it in my way too hasty tire change up the road. This time I got a good tube and took my time, the team caught up and we did a rider change there.
Dennis took the bike to San Ignacio where I got on again and took it through the silt to Loreto. We did about 3 more changes then took it in to the finish in 28 hrs and average speed of 38mph. You can see how just a couple planning errors and some bad luck can hurt you. We could probably have shaved off a considerable amount of time without them.
75 degrees warm sun and nice oceans, what can you say about that place? Its a great place to go race and to go relax away from the rat race.
Now if I can only get my intestines to be nice to me again, Im tired of sprinting to the bathroom every 20 minutes.
Good luck to 8x team, we will be in support.
Photos of the trip coming next stay tuned.
JimO
Well 10x made it. We finished the race with a few bike problems and we all made it home safe to tell the story.
My last post I was trying to get my Husky ready to race but still had some issues with EFI so we rode a Honda CRF-X. A good motor in those bikes but Husky still has them beat in the overall package. Any way, to give a brief overview, our race went good a couple flat tires really slowed us down a bit. Our team was made up of 5 riders and 2 of them had to back out right at the last minute making us scramble. So we found 2 guys to fill in but not the caliber of the lost riders. So game plan is to compete and finish the race especially after the bad outing in last years race.
Course was fast in the North up to about San Ignacio, super silty, rocky, and foggy in the South through San Javier. The fog started in Insurgentes and continued down past Santa Rita that really slowed everyone down.
We tried to do a lot of rider changes just to keep things fresh but as anyone who has done this race knows that it will be a logistical nightmare and your plan will get all f ed up in a hurry. Heres what happened:
We did 3 rider changes all before San Felipe, I got on at San Felipe to bang out the whoops, go through Puertecitos, Gonzaga and hand the bike to one of the North guys at Cocos. We all know that those 3 riders will never be able to catch the race having to take the VdTrinidad crossover to Hwy 1 then head South to Cocos Corner. I tried to tell them but they thought it would work. I had my own contingency plan.
I got a flat front tire just coming into Baja Pits at the Pemex in Gonzaga. Lucky for them Im buying them some travel time. It took us some time to fix because I could not find any tools that would work, finally Im away with a stock skinny tube in the front. Come into Cocos make a sat phone call to the guys they are just leaving El Rosario, Im thinking great Im gonna end up iron manning the rest of this thing. So I take it through Frog Canyon wash after Cocos and into that fun sandy section before hitting hwy to BoLA. Another flat, I probably pinched it in my way too hasty tire change up the road. This time I got a good tube and took my time, the team caught up and we did a rider change there.
Dennis took the bike to San Ignacio where I got on again and took it through the silt to Loreto. We did about 3 more changes then took it in to the finish in 28 hrs and average speed of 38mph. You can see how just a couple planning errors and some bad luck can hurt you. We could probably have shaved off a considerable amount of time without them.
75 degrees warm sun and nice oceans, what can you say about that place? Its a great place to go race and to go relax away from the rat race.
Now if I can only get my intestines to be nice to me again, Im tired of sprinting to the bathroom every 20 minutes.
Good luck to 8x team, we will be in support.
Photos of the trip coming next stay tuned.
JimO
Coffee;132263 said:
It will not be a happy Thanksgiving for Justin:
http://www.race-dezert.com/forum/showthread.php/88283-Please-Pray-for-Justin-Imhoff-8x/page8
This is verbatim from that site:
Latest update from Justin's dad - Please if you are in the San Diego area and can visit please, please do>
This is kind of a tough one,, the MRI showed more serious damage than originally thought, so most likely this is going to be a long process. After talking to Josh Morros' mom (who is awesome by the way) it sounds like J has a similar injury to what Josh suffered, so obviously we know Justin can, and will recover.
We were a little blown away after the MRI results,but have calmed down now and are preparing for the long haul. Feel free to visit, starting next week both Karen and I have to get back to work, and his sister and girlfriend have school. We have family and friends down here that i know will come see him and talk to him,but i know that life has go on for everyone so anyone that wants to come by just go to the second floor SICU unit and go see him, i know it isnt fun,especially for racers that think they are invincible, but stimulation is good for him.
I can't thank all of you enough for the thoughts and prayers, Mark from Racers for Christ comes by every day after work,and he is from D38 and has never met Justin! There are so many others there is no way to name them all, its nice to read the board about everything,sounds like J would have liked the enduro. Kim please post this on the other sites if you can, it would take me a month to figure it out. Thanks again everyone, propably the last update for a while, i hope the next one is a great one.
JimO;134727 said:
Justin ImHof is still in a comma. I've been checking his facebook page a couple of times each day.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Justin-ImHof/162418143799830
He has had at least 1 surgery for his shoulder, and even opened his eyes, but is still in a comma.
Coffee;135743 said:From the facebook page:
"Justin ImHof JUSTIN IS OUT OF HIS COMA!He still a long road ahead of him with a lot of hard work. He is becoming more responsive each day, making progress. He is so strong and such a fighter. Keep up the prayers and support"
Excellent news, Coffee
Thanks for the update!WoodsChick
JimO;137610 said:
Nice!
More bike photos please!
WoodsChick