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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Dakar 2009 (South American Style)

Mike Kay;16104 said:
Thanks. Im a bit unsure about 'hogging' this thread. Obviously its something im passionate about, but its not my dakar and i dont want to clog it up.

Plus--there are a couple guys on here who know a lot more about Dakar than i do, and i am aware that i might be in some way keeping them away.

If Mr. Hardin,. Mr Walsh and company want to jump in, it would be an honor to share a string with that level of understanding and achievement of this incredible event. :)
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I don't think you're "hogging" this thread at all (what a funny word!) but I welcome any and all conversation from those that have first-hand knowledge! It's something that 99% of us will never get to do, and I, for one, really enjoy hearing about all the stuff that doesn't make it to the official Dakar website or the TV coverage. I've sat through a few slide shows and Q & A sessions with Dakar finishers before and it never ceases to fascinate me.


WoodsChick
 
As of now, our Husky rider is in 61st
51 079 VAN PELT (NLD) HONDA 04:56:07 00:48:28
52 093 SEEL (SWE) KTM 04:56:26 00:48:47
53 128 SERRADORI (FRA) BETA 04:56:37 00:48:58
54 200 ZEGERS CORREA (CHL) HONDA 04:57:03 00:49:24
55 032 CARILLON (FRA) KTM 04:57:54 00:50:15
56 103 MITI (ARG) YAMAHA 04:58:39 00:51:00
57 070 PROHENS (CHL) KTM 04:59:03 00:51:24
58 204 DESI (HUN) KTM 04:59:26 00:51:47
59 218 VILLY (FRA) YAMAHA 05:00:29 00:52:50
60 087 MEILLAT (FRA) KAWASAKI 05:00:52 00:53:13
61 138 VAN DER LAAN (NLD) HUSQVARNA 05:01:32 00:53:53 listed as 66th over all
:applause: :notworthy:

Unfortunately Jonah fell in this stage & hurt his wrist a bit. Hope he's okay & it's not too bad.

Damn, Jonah's out, hand hurts too much, can't hold on to the handlebars.
You gave them hell Jonah & showed you're a force to be respected.
 
Ruffus;16219 said:
Unfortunately Jonah fell in this stage & hurt his wrist a bit. Hope he's okay & it's not too bad.

Damn, Jonah's out, hand hurts too much, can't hold on to the handlebars.
You gave them hell Jonah & showed you're a force to be respected.
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Yes, a huge dissappointment for Street. He's had to have caught the eye of the factory with the rid he's put in.
Overall this rALLY IS QUITE A RACE. wHEN i FIRST HEARD IT WAS MOVING CONTINENTS i THOUGHT THAT NOTHING COULD COMPARE TO aFRICA BUT THIS LOCATION HAS PROVED TO BE AWESOME.

:smashpc: dAMN cAP LOCK!!! :banghead:
 
Wetdog;16252 said:
Yes, a huge dissappointment for Street. He's had to have caught the eye of the factory with the rid he's put in.
Overall this rALLY IS QUITE A RACE. wHEN i FIRST HEARD IT WAS MOVING CONTINENTS i THOUGHT THAT NOTHING COULD COMPARE TO aFRICA BUT THIS LOCATION HAS PROVED TO BE AWESOME.:smashpc: dAMN cAP LOCK!!! :banghead:
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Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. The terrain is beautiful and looks to be quite challenging in spots. It's a bit bizarre, though, that the rallye is still called "Dakar" but I guess the name recognition is worth a lot in terms of money and panache. Kinda like, I dunno...I'm going to race the Suzuka 8 Hour...at Assen. Or the 24 Hours of Glen Helen at Hangtown.:excuseme:


WoodsChick
 
How fast fortunes can change in racing. Bravo to Street for his great ride!
I am now rooting for Fretigne on the WR450!! and always for Peterhansel in cars now.
 
Husky still in it & still moving up:applause:


60 067 DUICU (ROU) KTM 50:47:46 13:42:59 18:00
61 072 SNIJDERS (NLD) HONDA 50:50:42 13:45:55
62 097 ARNOULT (FRA) KTM 51:03:26 13:58:39
63 138 VAN DER LAAN (NLD) HUSQVARNA 51:03:59 13:59:12 12:00

64 218 VILLY (FRA) YAMAHA 51:05:02 14:00:15
65 197 PEDRERO GARCIA (ESP) KTM 51:17:11 14:12:24 02:38:00
66 140 LORMAND (FRA) YAMAHA 51:29:05 14:24:18 04:06:00
67 235 BOUNDS (GBR) KTM 51:35:06 14:30:19
68 093 SEEL (SWE) KTM 51:50:45 14:45:58 03:00
 
Ruffus;16219 said:
Unfortunately Jonah fell in this stage & hurt his wrist a bit. Hope he's okay & it's not too bad.

Damn, Jonah's out, hand hurts too much, can't hold on to the handlebars.
You gave them hell Jonah & showed you're a force to be respected.
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I missed the 2nd part - Jonah is completely out of the race?

Any links to updates about him like a blog or something?
 
1 002 COMA (ESP) KTM 43:52:30 00:00:00
2 012 FRETIGNE (FRA) YAMAHA 45:17:20 01:24:50
3 001 DESPRES (FRA) KTM 45:23:41 01:31:11 03:00
59 235 BOUNDS (GBR) KTM 59:34:17 15:41:47
60 138 VAN DER LAAN (NLD) HUSQVARNA 59:44:37 15:52:07 12:00
61 165 JAKES (SVK) KTM 59:47:12 15:54:42 03:00:00
62 097 ARNOULT (FRA) KTM 59:52:34 16:00:04
63 067 DUICU (ROU) KTM 60:01:36 16:09:06 18:00
64 218 VILLY (FRA) YAMAHA 60:09:53 16:17:23
65 093 SEEL (SWE) KTM 60:16:07 16:23:37

:thumbsup::applause:

Still moving up in the standings
 
Due to the last stage, I'm not sure of the exact reason, a whole lotta people got a 4 hr penalty.
73 126 PAVEY (AUS) BMW 73:04:54 25:13:24 15:00

78 093 SEEL (SWE) KTM 73:54:50 26:03:20 03:00 :thumbsup::applause:
79 178 SCHIANO (FRA) SHERCO 74:14:25 26:22:55 04:00:00
80 199 SANCHEZ TAPIA (ESP) KTM 75:28:04 27:36:34 09:00
81 138 VAN DER LAAN (NLD) HUSQVARNA 75:36:39 27:45:09 07:12:00 :thumbsup::applause:

But its still not as bad as Merkit. IIRC he got a 66 hr penalty :confused::doh:



115 055 MERKIT (TUR) KTM 154:22:30 106:31:00 66:15:00
 
78 093 SEEL (SWE) KTM 78:50:19 28:23:29 04:26:00
79 138 VAN DER LAAN (NLD) HUSQVARNA 78:51:46 28:24:56 07:12:00



Looks like it must have been a tough stage, or they're in survival mode now & just want to reach the finish without any nasty surprises
 
Looks like the 31st Dakar is over. Final standings as of now


75 199 SANCHEZ TAPIA (ESP) KTM 81:13:20 28:58:47 09:00
76 093 SEEL (SWE) KTM 81:14:58 29:00:25 04:26:00
77 138 VAN DER LAAN (NLD) HUSQVARNA 81:19:46 29:05:13 07:12:00
78 123 VAN OLST (NLD) KTM 81:40:45 29:26:12
Another notch in the Husky belt. We're movin on up

Big kudo's to Annie Seel, she had a big crash, broke the chin piece on her helmet, broke her nose, & continued.
:thumbsup: :notworthy::notworthy:

Big Congrats on Johan, you did Husky proud :thumbsup: :notworthy: :notworthy:

Here's to hoping there's many more Husky's in next year Dakar :cheers:
 
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