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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Deer vs Dualsport

I saw the whole video about a year ago. What they've cut out is that the kid is on his BRAND NEW WR250X that he just picked up from the dealer (South Sound Yamaha), and that his first words on the phone were "MOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM....I wrecked my biiiiiiiiikkke..."

A friend on another board made a ringtone out of his "help! help! help! heeEELLLlllp!"

frickin' squids
 
My friend had that happen to her but with a large suicidal kangaroo instead of a deer. She was wearing long pants, boots gloves and a decent jacket luckily. Unfortunately the kangaroo didnt make it though..
 
I just had my first animal strike on Sunday at the Delaware State enduro. I came bopping around a turn in some fast, flowing single track, and a ground hog sprinted into the trail. I had no time to react, and he went right under my wheels. My buddy came through a few seconds later and said he saw it going back into its hole, so hopefully I didn't injure it too badly.
 
dfeckel said:
I just had my first animal strike on Sunday at the Delaware State enduro. I came bopping around a turn in some fast, flowing single track, and a ground hog sprinted into the trail. I had no time to react, and he went right under my wheels. My buddy came through a few seconds later and said he saw it going back into its hole, so hopefully I didn't injure it too badly.
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I had a groundhog run out into the road one time when I was in my truck. I was doing around 60 and had no time to stop. He would have been fine if he would have stayed down, but he stood up right before the bumper would have passed over him harmlessly. I'm sure it was quick and painless.
 
I'm still trying to figure out the dude with the UPS truck. The thing was like a half-mile ahead of him and he still hit it. Also, if you look closely, that big smear of gunk was not on the truck the second before he hit it. Must have come from him? Yuck.
 
OUCH****************************************! He'll never do that again and live to tell about it!!:naughty:
 
Mike-AK said:
I'm still trying to figure out the dude with the UPS truck. The thing was like a half-mile ahead of him and he still hit it. Also, if you look closely, that big smear of gunk was not on the truck the second before he hit it. Must have come from him? Yuck.
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I have a GPS on my street and DS bike, I have to keep telling myself to not look down at it. Bet he was checking something else out. Looked like he looked down at his shifter. And yeah, what the hell was that milkshake looking stuff he spewed?
 
I've run over a few things in my day, but mostly small things...snakes and rodents, frogs and such. I hit a deer once up on Carson Pass going over the Sierra on my 610. Actually, he hit me, ran right into my radiator shroud, footpeg and handlebars as I was bombing along about 70mph. He went spinning across all lanes of traffic and I wobbled once or twice and kept going. My right foot got yanked off the peg and my knee gave me some grief for quite awhile but all things considered I got off pretty lucky...as did the 4 riders right behind me.

On another note, I will be moving this over to General where I think it's a better fit.
I'd leave it here but not all of us were riding 4-strokes when we hit the critters :thumbsup:
 
The guy in the first post is a member of another forum I'm on.

So this was not one of my best days.

I was out riding (Not wearing proper gear
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) and a deer made the not so smart decision of jumping out in front of me. I didn't have time to react and ended up hitting him somewhere between 35-45mph im not sure. Long story short I also was failing to ride with an endorsement and didn't want to call authorities in the beginning for fear of losing my bike. After looking at my ankle and turning off the camera I quickly did though and was taken to the hospital where I stayed for the next 5 days.

I ended up tearing all tendons,ligaments and multiple breaks on my ankle that were fixed with 6 permanent screws and a plate. Had a puncture wound from dragging my ankle along the chip seal. Also two fractures to my left shoulder and a good amount of torn muscle tissue. I got lucky and didn't get much road rash however my hip was extremely bruised/swollen and the deer shit on the side of me and my bike.

All in all I learned my lesson and will never ride without proper gear and do my best to ride with others. I crashed on Fox Island,Wa (Very small not much traffic) and was lucky that repeated screams were heard by somebody and I was able to get help. Yes I called my mom
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Its now been about 9 months now so i've had a good amount on time to heal and do physical therapy. Haven't rode the bike since and i' ready to get back on. Just need a left side peg,headlight bulb,grips,front left turn signal and i'm good to go. No damage to the bike other than those little things. The bike held up really well.
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I hit a dog once on my brand new Kawasaki csr305 when I was 16 coming home from my girlfriends late one night it was a foxhound on track coming across the road hit him with my rear break pedal broke it plum off and gutted the dog,all I could do was remove him from the road and remove his nameplated collar and returned it to the owner and tell him what happened , as it turned out that girlfriend is now my wife of thirty years come this October..
 
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