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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Enduro Engineering Stuff for 08/09 Huskys
- Thread starter ScottyR
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Norman Foley
Husqvarna
Pro Class
BentAero;20794 said:
Didn't Alan ghost ride for Hyde for 3 days before they gave up, because it became obvious Hyde could not get back on the bike?
Norman Foley
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Joe Chod;20980 said:
Is that why you're not on the way to get the 310?
scoobywrx05
Husqvarna
A Class
Joe Chod;20980 said:
BentAero
Husqvarna
A Class
Norman Foley;20925 said:
Alan was actually a 'chase' rider that year. Literally right off the gate on the 1st day, Mark endo's in a ditch and breaks his wrist. Doing what any crazy pair of riders would do, Alan and Mark go behind a giant mound of hay and changed jersey's and helmets! Alan effectively 'became' Mark for the rest of the week.
Mark went back to the motel and had to "hyde" out all week, while Alan road as Mark, and when doing maintenance on the bike at the end of the day, kept his helmet on so no one would realize that it wasn't really Mark.
Everything was going fine until Alan pitched it away big-time, blowing a turn and going over a steep embankment. He hit so hard, it blew his femur right out of the pelvic socket. Ow!
Alan likely would have died down there if it weren't for another rider going over the edge as well, but not with such dire consequences. The other rider managed to get help.
Once in the hospital, they had to fess up that he wasn't Mark Hyde.
(BTW, they convienently left all of this out of the AMA magazine feature on Mark Hyde last year. I had the pleasure of telling the story to Pres. Rob Dingman at a Indy MotoGP party last September -he had no idea!)
The American team doctor took one look at the (communist) Polish hospital and told them to put Alan in a full body cast and don't touch him. They took Al back to the motel.
Once it was time to fly back to the States, Al was riding a full-size hospital bed, so the airline had to take out 8 seats from the plane to fit him in. Of course, they charged him for all 8 seats!
I visited Alan when he was post-op at the hospital in Lansing, MI where they had him hooked up to one of those machines that move the leg back and forth. He said being in that Polish hospital was like stepping back in time 50 years, like it was out of an old movie.
This wreck effectively ended Alan's pro riding career. He spent the next several years wrenching/working with a young upstart named Mike Lafferty. Did he ever amount to anything?
That boyz and goilz is your ISDE history lesson for the day.
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