• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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" 2010

Coffee;70247 said:
I thought today was a 'rest' day and they would continue tomorrow? :confused:
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That was yesterday, today he's smokin again, 19th position at KM 396 :notworthy:, should be at KM 465 any second now :cheers:


Edit:
The tracking is wonky, shows only 17 riders in at KM 465, but 22 riders in at the finish :excuseme:

Edit #2:
Just showed up at KM 465 in 18th position :thinking: :banana:
 
looks good

The standings are still being finalized, but it looks like Claudio made a fairly substantial jump today:applause:
 
Ruffus;70251 said:
That was yesterday, today he's smokin again, 19th position at KM 396 :notworthy:, should be at KM 465 any second now :cheers:


Edit:
The tracking is wonky, shows only 17 riders in at KM 465, but 22 riders in at the finish :excuseme:

Edit #2:
Just showed up at KM 465 in 18th position :thinking: :banana:
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Well I'm off a day because I'm following the event on the tv...

They were discussing the possibility of one of the top riders getting a spare wheel when they should not have, any word on that? Penalty?
 
Marc Coma, got a 6 hour penalty, he's still denying it, going through appeals now.
BTW, he was smokin today too, came in second at the finish :thumbsup: :notworthy:

Jonah in at 13th :notworthy:
 
Ike Baker;70246 said:
Claudio Rodriguez is 46th after the seventh stage and hanging tough- many riders have washed out. They are running the eighth stage this morning (January 10) - Go Burrito!

http://www.dakar.com/us/DAKAR/2010/stage-7/standings/bikes/overall.html
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And Annie Seel is running 43rd! :applause:

The US's very own Jonah Street looks to be in 7th overall, too :)

The lone Husaberg has withdrawn, as have 4 of the Shercos. Only 2 of the 5 Aprilias have withdrawn, though, which is a very pleasant surprise.

My info is based on final standings from the 7th stage, but there are starting to be some results posted from today...yay!!


WoodsChick
 
Claudio Rodriguez -

looks like he's 41st after today's eighth stage

taken during the sixth stage:

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WoodsChick;70267 said:
And Annie Seel is running 43rd! :applause:

The US's very own Jonah Street looks to be in 7th overall, too :)
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Annie Seel made it through today's stage! Looks like she is now 50th overall - very impressive!:thumbsup:
 
WoodsChick;70267 said:
.......The lone Husaberg has withdrawn, as have 4 of the Shercos. Only 2 of the 5 Aprilias have withdrawn, .........
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Interesting…
The two Jincheng “bikes” or whatever the heck they are, are still in there :confused:

Anyone has any thoughts as to why there’s only one lone Husky in the mix? :thinking:
(figured I might as well ask since we’re on the Husky channel…)

The Versus HD coverage this year just doesn’t cut it for me
They keep showing the same video sequences over and over
No big rig coverage at all
They cut the whole thing from an hour to half an hour with commercials
And about zero epic shots that will make a fool like me yearn for an adventure :snore:

:excuseme:
 
Muddy Waters;70317 said:
Interesting…
The two Jincheng “bikes” or whatever the heck they are, are still in there :confused:

Anyone has any thoughts as to why there’s only one lone Husky in the mix? :thinking:
(figured I might as well ask since we’re on the Husky channel…)

The Versus HD coverage this year just doesn’t cut it for me
They keep showing the same video sequences over and over
No big rig coverage at all
They cut the whole thing from an hour to half an hour with commercials
And about zero epic shots that will make a fool like me yearn for an adventure :snore:

:excuseme:
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Have a gander here

http://www.sbs.com.au/dakar/

P.S. I read that those two supposed Jincheng bikes are really Yami WR450's only thing Chinese on them may be a steeker or two & of course, the riders :lol::D
 
Ruffus;70319 said:
.....only thing Chinese on them may be a steeker or two & of course, the riders :lol::D
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:lol: That’s funny Ru :D

Thanks for the link; I’ll check it later, No TV coverage of the Hockey game tonight so my wife is listening to the webradio coverage right now

:thumbsup:
 
More on Annie Seel (holy cr@p!)

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Swedish Dakar rally rider Annie Seel reports from the bivouac in Copiapo, Chile:

"At km 131 the track split around some ruins, and joined again after. To avoid dust I cut from right track over to the left, across a small rise. Behind the rise a 5m deep tomb opened, 2x3 wide. I rode to slow to jump and to fast to stop. Put breakes on, slide bike to the left and abandon ship. I managed to jump to the left edge while bike tumbled down. I am lucky not to go down cause the walls were impossible to climb.

Stopped some riders to call for help. A helicopter came and I climbed down with a thin rope to check bike, it was ok. We tried to pull the bike, but no. They said I must wait for the organisation truck to come and help. Took a while but then Mr Etienne Lavigne, race director, arrived in a helicopter instead. Like a true hero he climbed down with a rope, tied my bike with the real tie roses, and instructed the pilot how to lift it. Now I could continue the race, saved by the angel from above. Only suffering from painful swollen hand and aching foot"

http://thedakar.blogspot.com/2010/01/dakar-annie-tomb-rally-raider.html
photo courtesy of Annie Seel: http://anniedakar.wordpress.com/

also props to advrider for the initial info: http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=535365&page=309
 
Love the pix, Good to see he still going strong and the bike as well
Love that tank and fairing sent an email off to this mob

http://www.mecasystem.fr/index-en.php
Still waiting to hear from them, so if anyone can help me with any more info that would be great
 

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