• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 2011

Mike Kay

Mike Kay

Husqvarna
AA Class
www.dakar.com

http://www.race-dezert.com/home/category/dakar
Great in depth coverage

http://www.advrider.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=25
Its endless.

The Husky
There is one Husky. A TE 510. He is #162. Goooo Andres!!!
http://www.dakar.com/dakar/2011/us/rider/162.html

The Bultaco!
Check this out (set down your drink, swallow, now click)
http://www.dakar.com/dakar/2011/us/rider/169.html
Great close up pics. Even the spare motor!
http://www.leguidevert.com/_V5/sujet.php?postorigine=259634&mode=forum&blog_id=0

The Ladies:

Eulalia...#44 http://www.dakar.com/dakar/2011/us/rider/044.html
(smokin fast from Spain)

Annie...#56 http://www.dakar.com/dakar/2011/us/rider/056.html
www.annieseel.com
(she has finished 22 rallys in a row-first to ironlady the Vegas to Reno!)

Maria...#58 http://www.dakar.com/dakar/2011/us/rider/058.html

Silvia...#71 http://www.dakar.com/dakar/2011/us/rider/071.html

Christina...#100 http://www.dakar.com/dakar/2011/us/rider /100.html

Steffani....#109 (dakar.com put a pic of a dude in her bio)
Riding a 450 yamaha from Italy.

Jenny...#173 http://www.dakar.com/dakar/2011/us/rider/173.html

The Yanks:

Cody...#15 http://www.dakar.com/dakar/2011/us/rider/015.html
Perhaps the fastest rider at the race. But he has no real navigation/dakar rules/etc. experience.
www.quinncody.com

Jonah...#7 http://www.dakar.com/dakar/2011/us/rider/007.html
Best shot at an American overall win since Danny LaPorte vs.Kindergartner a generation ago. (sorry Jimmy)

Luis....#150 http://www.dakar.com/dakar/2011/us/rider/150.html
On a 150 2-stroke!

Michael...#166 http://www.dakar.com/dakar/2011/us/rider/166.html
63 years young!
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Scroll down this page for great video links from Ruffus
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Most riders have a webpage. Google their name, Dakar, and their race number
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I will keep adding links for a few days.
 
Go Andres "Pluto" Benavente

Cant wait to see his set up and how he solved the extra fuel/EFI issue.
 
The bike looks wicked!

chile-husqvarna-dakar-unveiling.jpg



chile-husqvarna-dakar-team.jpg



r2838362600.jpg
 
Mike Kay;139120 said:
www.dakar.com

There is one Husky. A TE 510. He is #162. Goooo Andres!!!

Check this out (set down your drink, swallow, now click)
http://www.dakar.com/dakar/2011/us/rider/169.html
Click to expand...

Now I get it... thought that was supposed to be the profile of the Husqvarna rider. :)



Here is that link in case anyone wants to see the Husqvarna riders profile:
http://www.dakar.com/dakar/2011/us/rider/162.html


Per chance is he using the new Safari tank? With a side tank added?
 
:banghead::banghead:
Has anyone had luck logging into the Dakar race thread of adventure rider?

That's the most up to the minute info thread going & I haven't had any luck for a few hours now.
 
I wonder if it really is a 510, since this years regs at the Dakar require 450cc bikes.


I'm guessing the rear tank is the 10 lt rear Rally Tank from the Husaberg modified to fit the Husky.

That would give him 2.6 gal in the rear and 4.5 in the front, for a total of 7.1 gal.


7.1 gal x 30 MPG = 213 mile range
7.1 gal x 35 MPG = 248.5 mile range


Seems a bit low on total range unless they reduced the minimum fuel reange requierment at this years Dakar. If I remember correctly it is usually around 250 miles +20% --> Thats about 300 miles.
 
danbartol;139250 said:
I wonder if it really is a 510, since this years regs at the Dakar require 450cc bikes.


I'm guessing the rear tank is the 10 lt rear Rally Tank from the Husaberg modified to fit the Husky.

That would give him 2.6 gal in the rear and 4.5 in the front, for a total of 7.1 gal.


7.1 gal x 30 MPG = 213 mile range
7.1 gal x 35 MPG = 248.5 mile range


Seems a bit low on total range unless they reduced the minimum fuel reange requierment at this years Dakar. If I remember correctly it is usually around 250 miles +20% --> Thats about 300 miles.
Click to expand...


This year it's only mandatory for the pro's to run 450 or less. Amateurs can still larger displacement bikes
 
Ruffus;139241 said:
:banghead::banghead:
Has anyone had luck logging into the Dakar race thread of adventure rider?

That's the most up to the minute info thread going & I haven't had any luck for a few hours now.
Click to expand...

Not that I want you to spend your time over there instead of here, but do you have a link? They have many threads...
 
Ruffus;139258 said:
Yup, & ya need worry about where I spend my time, all my Husky info comes from right here buddy :thumbsup:

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=644461
Click to expand...

erm, uh, by all means feel free to spend your time however you see fit. There is no way to compete with the level of information on advrider, and frankly I would not want to try too. In fact I finally made a couple of posts recently over there after being a member for a couple of years. :)


In any event, the link works for me at this time.


I can say that if you are having trouble connecting to sites in general (not just a single thread), especially if you are in eastern Canada, you may be having routing problems - strange things have been happening from eastern Canada & UK/EU to servers located in Texas and the west coast of the USA. It has been happening for months. I've no idea where advrider is hosted though...
 
It's back up now, I guess everyone had trouble.
Probably because of the Dakar thread.
Last few years running it's been the best place to keep informed on the rally.

Sorry if my last post sounded wrong, I just go a little nutz during the rally :busted:

The Dakar home page isn't offering any tracking yet, hope they fix it soon. I won't be getting much sleep until the rally's over. :cheers:
 
Cool, thanks Mike
DVR is set
I thought this year we’ll see more then one Husky in the lineup...and less Jincheng’s :excuseme:

Hey what’s the deal with the Bimota “b” symbol on the bikes ?
Can it be that they’re sponsoring on the Dakar ? It’ll be like Hardly Dreaditson sponsoring a trials event :lol:

:thumbsup:
 
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