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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Helmet Recommendations

I do agree that an expensive helmet doesn't mean safer and at some point you're paying more for features or paint options. I think fit is number one. It's really whatever makes you feel comfortable.

With that being said I don't feel you should avoid a helmet because of a higher cost either. Let's face it, not all helmets are created equal. Just like other gear I've had helmets where the pads wear out to fast or vents break for no good reason. Quite honestly, quality issues that makes me avoid a product. If they can't do the simple things then I don't trust them to protect me

There are a ton of great options and we all know how to find amazing deals on helmets that may be out of reach normally. I think it's harder to justify a $400 exhaust, 700 in suspension, racing costs, then it is to buy a 300-500 dollar helmet. Protecting yourself is always the best way to go and I don't believe a $100 helmet is superior to an Arai, Shoei, or any other major manufacturer.
 
Wearing a Fly Carbon, much nicer than my HJC (17)?......also had a late model AGV mid $200 range...& didn't first my head that well....and I loved the AGV XR2 & other street helmets...the Fly is very plush inside where the HJC was very utilitarian!
 
Bell moto 9. Wore a bell all through the 70's and early 80's. Started dirt biking again about 5 or six years ago, tried a couple different brands and ended up with another bell and am very pleased. Fit and comfort are very good.

Dave
 
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