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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Coming out of the gate Filipino style

ray_ray said:
When it happened live, I thought something looked a little different about it but had to see the video to catch how he timed the gate ...
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Nah, that's 10% rider, 90% bike :)

(jokes aside... it was timed really well)
 
The race I was at this weekend was small enough that no house was around the gate guy and I did watch the guy and not the gate in the 1st moto and I think it did help coming out of the hole... But somewhere later in the day they tied a long string on the gate arm that drops it allowing the gate-dropper to get well out of your vision unless you sat backwards on the bike ...
 
I tried to time it like that last year at a track we only visit once a year. There was a little lag time (or I was a little too eager) between when he pulled the bar, and the gates dropped. I rammed it hard enough that I got stuck in it, and had to move the bike back to get it to drop. By the time I launched, half the class was already at the first turn :o
 
Zomby woof said:
I tried to time it like that last year at a track we only visit once a year. There was a little lag time between when he pulled the bar, and the gates dropped, and I rammed into it hard enough that it stayed up and I had to move the bike back to get it to drop. By the time I launched, half the class was already at the first turn :o
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Yep ... I see guys trying to be rolling up to the gate as it drops and usually they are left in the dust unless they get lucky on the roll-up ...

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I used to get hung on the gate because I'd be real close to it and leave at the first twitch of the gate ... Now I get back from the gate 3' or so and can leave at about the first twitch and still make it over the gate ...

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I have to remember to pin the throttle now on my way to the corner ... I seem to jump out the gate ~ok, crack the throttle, and engage the clutch but forget to pin it WFO after over the gate ....
 
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