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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Baja 1000 15x Husky

Awesome job team JimO! Equal kudos to MikeK and crew! I didn't know Mike was playing with Husky's still? Good to hear!
 
JimO here, thanks all around for all the CH support on here, you guys have made my day for sure, thanks to Colo Moto for passing on my info that i got to him from down there. Thanks to George Erl for the support for the teams down there, no doubt he's been there and knows exactly whats going on. And the team this year was great. They are Eric Pucelic, Arik Swan, Bobby Bartholomew and wrenches Shannon Humphries, Johnny (Bobby Bonds mech) Mike Campbell and our movie guy Kieler. After i hit that rock and was basically stuck in the fetal position the COPS Class1 prerunner stopped to help. I was actually kinda pissed at these guys cuz they wouldent stop and let us pass in the one line rocks coming over the summit about 10 miles prior. But these guys suddenly became my best friends, (Zack, Shawn and Dennis) as they picked me up and stuffed me through the cage into the backseat of the buggy, i was telling them, I love the COPS TEAM, I love that show, im gonna watch it everyday. Meanwhile Eric my teammate grabbed all the gas w him and set off for Borrego.

Anyway, as the buggy and me screamed across the desert, i was clutching my thigh and feeling every bump. I'd look out the windshield from time to time just to see giant sand whoops coming it just made me tense up more, but the 30" or so of travel went right over that stuff. I really wish i was in a different presence of mind cuz that was a great ride. They took me through Laguna Salada to the road then to my guys waiting in Borrego.

Buddy Mike and I drove 5 hrs to SD where they loaded me up on all the good stuff and set my femur back into its home. After resting for 2 days eating hospital food i was ready to go and have some Baja tacos and see the team through. We left SD at 6am race morning and showed up at Borrego about 30 min before the first bike came through. Eric P started and worked his way up to 5th or 6th when the Husky quit under full power. He kicked it a few times and started up, off he went only to do that 2 more times. We changed out the plug and cap was unscrewed half way. We unpluged kill switch in case of a short. Arik Swan got on to do the SF loop, super rough but Husky ran perfect. Bobby B. Took it at San Matias to Santo Tomas then Eric P. brought it in. Husky died 1 time on Bobby B im thinking maybe stator.

All in all I think our team really stepped up losing a rider and making it work. And, this is the first time any of those guys have ever done a Baja race, or any desert race. Great job guys!! Im so proud.
Jim O.
 
JimO,
I love history, and that includes Racing History, I think you guys as well as the Husky finisher, may have just made history (or started a new Husky racing history). When was the last time a Husqvarna actually even finished the Baja 1000?
 
JimO, congrats on the team finish**************************************** Sounds like you had your little get-off about the same spot a buddy and I spent the night out there lost. Approx 10 miles over the summit, down in the wash... Also where my buddy got a concusion and broke his finger... Glad to hear you came out of it ok, and thank god for the good people down there!

What a trooper, back to Borrego before the first bike came thru! Nice****************************************
 
Thanks for clarification, guys. Check me on this, Husky still is in 2nd for number of Baja wins behind the very active (and corporate backed) Honda.
 
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