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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

KDUB & Anaheim 2 -- 2013

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Okay, maybe it was only the timing that was a surprise. GEICO Honda's Kevin Windham had been considering pulling the plug on his racing for a while, but decided that Anaheim 2 was the place to do it. It's been a hell of a career.
 
Why do you think he waited a few rounds into the new season? He's done starting immediately right? Sorry, the only part I've been able to watch so far is the 250
 
LandofMotards said:
Why do you think he waited a few rounds into the new season? He's done starting immediately right? Sorry, the only part I've been able to watch so far is the 250
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He was hoping he could get back in the groove and he said he could not find a comfort zone to compete the way he wanted. I think if he had kept at it, he would have gotten there, but you have to quit sometime and he still has his health, money and the fans still love him, so go enjoy life.
The hardest part will be giving up the love from the fans.
 
water racer said:
He was hoping he could get back in the groove and he said he could not find a comfort zone to compete the way he wanted. I think if he had kept at it, he would have gotten there, but you have to quit sometime and he still has his health, money and the fans still love him, so go enjoy life.
The hardest part will be giving up the love from the fans.
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He can just do what everyone else does. Start a team and everyone goes to the pits to see him and not his racers lol. I wonder how all of this worked with the sponsors that are already invested.
 
steadydirt said:
Is he still doing his local school fund raiser bash in the pasture this summer?
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Not sure but what a great idea ...


Colo moto said:
I almost cried a little when I heard of his retirement. What a great rider and person. The last of an era. No one else out there even comes close.
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Surprise and shock to me also ... He signed the bill of my Taskys Husqvarna hat once in Seattle WA .... No cracks about the brand for sure....

water racer said:
He was hoping he could get back in the groove and he said he could not find a comfort zone to compete the way he wanted. I think if he had kept at it, he would have gotten there, but you have to quit sometime and he still has his health, money and the fans still love him, so go enjoy life. The hardest part will be giving up the love from the fans.
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I can understand that .. He was hanging with js7, quad jumps and all 2 yrs back at LV in the last race of the SX season till js7 crashed in the whoops and into Kdubs line ... That one really sucked ... He may just not have had the same drive to push towards the top after all this time and that is 100% understandable ... He seemed to lay it on the line last yr when he had the bad crashes and he is not a crasher 4 sure ...

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I think it was the #800 who crashed him last last yr ... He explained how he was crashed in such a graceful\elegant manner and in such a way that a layman like myself could understand AND at the same time say, that is the way the #800 races and we all know it ...

It will be interesting to see what he does now ... Maybe he keeps in the public side of things .. Maybe he moves into GNCC of some other type of racing? That would really be cool ... He's from the south ... Just a state line between my home state and his .. HomeBoy #2 4 me ....
 
LandofMotards said:
He can just do what everyone else does. Start a team and everyone goes to the pits to see him and not his racers lol. I wonder how all of this worked with the sponsors that are already invested.
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Yeah, I have always wondered how Mx racers could walk away in the middle of the season leaving sponsors hanging. If it was Nascar or F1 there would be another driver put in the seat immediately. When I raced for Hooters I was paid quarterly and I was expected to fulfill my end.
As popular as KW is, would have been nice to see a farewell tour, but I get it, when you no longer feel comfortable putting your life on the line, it is time to step away.
 
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