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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

DeCoster is a genius and KTM is really pushing the limits.

It has 2 many strokes as in make it a 300 2 stroke make it white call it a Husky Then let me test ride it. Because I need a new bike soon. BUT it will have to be better then my current CR 300 with ohliens
 
If the weight is accurate, they're really putting one over the competition considering this thing has an electric start!
 
ptkatoomer said:
If the weight is accurate, they're really putting one over the competition considering this thing has an electric start!
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It is and they had to add weight to some of them to race SX. The frame and motor look tiny.

The Decoster years Hondas and Suzukis were both amazing efforts. The guy is a wizard. Some of the CR250 Hondas of his vintage are still good bikes by todays standards. The guy is a living legend and was winning World titles on 500s 50 years ago**************************************** Was even a wicked gear salesman ha ha ha...

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He'll always be a Suzuki guy in my heart. My first bike was a TM125 and I just HAD to have one of those shiny yellow suzuki jerseys that Decoster was wearing. When I "dressed up" for my sisters high-school graduation I couldn't think of a finer shirt to wear then that jersey :D
 
I watched Roger De Coster snap the steering head off the frame and broke it right in half on his Factory RM Suzuki on the high speed jump on the GP course at Carnegie Cycle Park in about 1977 or 1978. He got right up with some help and walked away from that one.

They weren't flying that high off the ground back then like nowadays, maybe 6 feet up but they were wide open and clearing 80 to 100ft. or so when his frame broke in half on the landing. That was back in the days where the factory teams from Husky, CZ, Maico, Montesa, Bultaco, Ossa, Can-Am, Honda, Kawasaki, Yamaha, Suzuki, even Carabela from Mexico. were all there with there factory riders.
 
ptkatoomer said:
He'll always be a Suzuki guy in my heart. My first bike was a TM125 and I just HAD to have one of those shiny yellow suzuki jerseys that Decoster was wearing. When I "dressed up" for my sisters high-school graduation I couldn't think of a finer shirt to wear then that jersey :D
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senior high pic of my nos 88 250, lol. rolled it off the back off the truck in the parking lot, fired it up, rode it around to the back of the school and took pics haha. the photographer asked if we were allowed to do this, i said we already are! cant believe that was in 2000. wish that bike was NOS again!
 
oregonsage said:
I watched DeCoster get a flat tire on an early lap of an extremely muddy moto at Puyallup, stop and swap the wheel, and then unlap himself back up to a 2nd (or thereabouts). He made everyone else on the track look like an amateur. Great rider and a class act.
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Must have been the Inter Am Series? What year was that? I watched in 72 and don't remember that.
But that doesn't mean it didn't happen then:)
 
Ask him about his 180 pound Suzuki 500 he raced.
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And he would say " It was my RN370, and it was closer to 200 pounds". It was Joel Robert's RH250 that was 187 lbs, and both bikes caused the weight limit rule we now enjoy, in an effort to keep Euro manufacturers relevant and competitive. The rule succeeded to do neither.
 
Now if they were smart enough to hand the reins of the entire off road division to DeCoster and sprinkle his magic into both KTM and Husky bikes, that would be something else.
 
Kelly,
If that picture was any longer I would be standing in the crowd just a little farther in front of where he did this to the left when it broke clear in half and he ate it.. Carnegie's Trans-Am GP course you had to ride the transport bus up to the track to get over the hill or walk which would take well over an hour.

This must be a Carnegie picture of the incident I was talking about but it must have been 75 or so. I thought it was like in 76 or 77. Suzuki TM's changed to RM's and started in 76 with an up-pipe? Unless this is another time he broke the frame in half a year or 2 earlier.

Cool picture, If this is Carnegie? I was right there too.
 
Xcuvator said:
Must have been the Inter Am Series? What year was that? I watched in 72 and don't remember that.
But that doesn't mean it didn't happen then:)
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Would have been a year or two later I think. I was barely out of High School in 74...but its possible. My memories are the great performance by DeCoster, meeting Bob Hannah who was quite unfriendly, and getting very wet.
 
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