ray_ray
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Lots of your stuff still looks all shiny!
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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Husqvarna gear (boy have i collected alot)
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Lots of your stuff still looks all shiny!
photoguy_43420
Husqvarna
AA Class
Lots of your stuff still looks all shiny!
ray_ray, Yesterday at 5:01 PM
That is all my "good stuff" everything else is garage, just to cold and snowy to get to it. We had another 4inches of snow today yeah.... Can't wait to spring!
ray_ray, Yesterday at 5:01 PM
That is all my "good stuff" everything else is garage, just to cold and snowy to get to it. We had another 4inches of snow today yeah.... Can't wait to spring!
I hear you, 3 snow storms in a week in NJ, & of course it's snowing tonight, & there already saying a big storm late next week too...come on Spring,,,
ohiomotoxer
Husqvarna
C Class
I know this post is old but.
I got probably one of the last Hoosks from Ben Lewis before he passed. I went there and we put it together from the crate. SUPER nice guy rest his soul.
His wife Pat was also super nice, they would give you the clothing off their backs to help out a rider.
They had a little track in the back yard where I met Joe their son.
In the RPM days (a shop Ben had interest in) I pulled a holeshot on Ben's max'd out bike at a race on a bet of who would get to the first turn first. Thats me 479 and Joe doin a nice wheelie. ( see below for the full story of the holeshot)
I have a LHB Jacket, Hat and would love to find a jersey for my wall of racing gear I have used since 1977. Ill post a pic of my stuff tomorrow.
Here is the holeshot pic: Im on a 1980 390
1980 Smith Road Raceway in Medina Ohio was a hotbed for racing, (still is today) we drew allot of hotshoes from all over the area.
I was the local Holeshot Ace, NO ONE beat me to the first turn which was quite long, let me explain.
The start went approx 500ft then turned left and circled up a hill then back down across the straight you just went down, then you kept going back down that straight for about another 500ft where a BIG tree and right hander downhill was where WE considered the first turn to be....quite long. YES the start did one big circle over itself but usually there were never any problems.
Since I was the Holeshot Ace and my Photographer friend George Swagulak was an instigator I was snookered into a bet with the owner Ben Lewis (RIP) of back then engine hop up shop RPM in Toledo, my Hoosk was also an RPM bike.
Bens son Joe was riding some super hot sick engine big ass Montessa, yeah that's what I thought a MONTESSA????? I was on my RPM 1980 390 Hoosk....and my friend George BET the RPM crew that their bike would be SECOND to the first turn......the bet was on.
So all the locals lined up knowing there was a smart ass that thinks he can make it to the first turn before them, the RPM crew was confident on the line snorting out remarks about my Hoosk and everyone else was looking cross eyed at that montessa....
My friend George gave me an atta boy pat on the back and lugged his photo gear to the fastest part of the start just before the "legal" first turn
The starter raised hos arm to point to everyone down the line to see if we were ready.
He lifted the 30 second board...motors all rasied to that nice two stroke WFO hum....blue smoke filled the starting line.....
As the starter looked to his right (like he always did) he turned the sign and "clank" the gate dropped, I was off....
The mighty Hoosk motored down the start straight like she was on rails, round the uphill turn and not a bike to be seen I was crankin it in that turn, back down the hill and onto the start straight again....still no one....now WFO down the straight to the first turn......still no one.....
Well the picture tells the whole story of the day the mighty RPM tuned Montessa ate RPM tuned Hoosk dirt......
I got probably one of the last Hoosks from Ben Lewis before he passed. I went there and we put it together from the crate. SUPER nice guy rest his soul.
His wife Pat was also super nice, they would give you the clothing off their backs to help out a rider.
They had a little track in the back yard where I met Joe their son.
In the RPM days (a shop Ben had interest in) I pulled a holeshot on Ben's max'd out bike at a race on a bet of who would get to the first turn first. Thats me 479 and Joe doin a nice wheelie. ( see below for the full story of the holeshot)
I have a LHB Jacket, Hat and would love to find a jersey for my wall of racing gear I have used since 1977. Ill post a pic of my stuff tomorrow.
Here is the holeshot pic: Im on a 1980 390
1980 Smith Road Raceway in Medina Ohio was a hotbed for racing, (still is today) we drew allot of hotshoes from all over the area.
I was the local Holeshot Ace, NO ONE beat me to the first turn which was quite long, let me explain.
The start went approx 500ft then turned left and circled up a hill then back down across the straight you just went down, then you kept going back down that straight for about another 500ft where a BIG tree and right hander downhill was where WE considered the first turn to be....quite long. YES the start did one big circle over itself but usually there were never any problems.
Since I was the Holeshot Ace and my Photographer friend George Swagulak was an instigator I was snookered into a bet with the owner Ben Lewis (RIP) of back then engine hop up shop RPM in Toledo, my Hoosk was also an RPM bike.
Bens son Joe was riding some super hot sick engine big ass Montessa, yeah that's what I thought a MONTESSA????? I was on my RPM 1980 390 Hoosk....and my friend George BET the RPM crew that their bike would be SECOND to the first turn......the bet was on.
So all the locals lined up knowing there was a smart ass that thinks he can make it to the first turn before them, the RPM crew was confident on the line snorting out remarks about my Hoosk and everyone else was looking cross eyed at that montessa....
My friend George gave me an atta boy pat on the back and lugged his photo gear to the fastest part of the start just before the "legal" first turn
The starter raised hos arm to point to everyone down the line to see if we were ready.
He lifted the 30 second board...motors all rasied to that nice two stroke WFO hum....blue smoke filled the starting line.....
As the starter looked to his right (like he always did) he turned the sign and "clank" the gate dropped, I was off....
The mighty Hoosk motored down the start straight like she was on rails, round the uphill turn and not a bike to be seen I was crankin it in that turn, back down the hill and onto the start straight again....still no one....now WFO down the straight to the first turn......still no one.....
Well the picture tells the whole story of the day the mighty RPM tuned Montessa ate RPM tuned Hoosk dirt......
ohiomotoxer
Husqvarna
C Class
84scrambler
Husqvarna
Pro Class
More, more please... I love stuff like this. I am from Doylestown Oh. not far from Medina I had
a great aunt and uncle that owned a small ma and pop gas station right there on the main street back in the day .
a great aunt and uncle that owned a small ma and pop gas station right there on the main street back in the day .
dartyppyt
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Cool! I am originally from Alliance, Oh. I raced at Malvern (neighbors owned the track, Mc Laughlins), My friend built the Malvern upper track with a dozer. Ohio International, Yankee Lake, Broken Spokes, Lil Abners, Gran Prix, Tea Garden, etc..... Ohio International, is where my boot got stuck in a Yz swing arm in a first turn. The had to take back wheel off. Yankee lake I jumped a triple out there, which I was first one to do. Couple weeks later they took a dozer to first jump and changed the angle. I did a back flip and bent my rear frame sideways, bent my bars, and hit so hard that cylinder studs pulled out of the cases. Broke my sternum down side right by my ribs. I used to love the ski jump hill at Malvern hare scrambles.
ohiomotoxer
Husqvarna
C Class
I remember when MST had the main and lower track.
I could name tracks in ohio you never heard of. Nickles Cycle Ranch, Rick Case Raceway, Browns Valley.
I could name tracks in ohio you never heard of. Nickles Cycle Ranch, Rick Case Raceway, Browns Valley.
ohiomotoxer
Husqvarna
C Class
By the way hers is the full wall of my gear from 1974 to 2014 including my drag racin leathers at the right end.