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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Lupino!

F1ED

F1ED

Husqvarna
AA Class
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Interesting ... I've been reading the Husky news letter on this guy for ~2 yrs ... Don't really know him but maybe if he kept his head pointing forward, he could finish better and Husky could quit writing the lame remarks on what went wrong again each week ... Last I saw he was 8th in the standings .. Not too shabby overall ... But he seems to be a little distracted here from the job at hand unless bird flying is part of his contract ...
 
Give the kid a break, we all know how frustrated you can get during a race. :D Yes, 8th place in the GP's is flying.
 
robertaccio said:
he did well in the nats but now hes in the deep end of the talent pool.
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He's been pretty consistent at just in-or-out-of the top 10 ... Usually a start position leaving him to play catch-up for the race .... Not sure what Husky is gonna do for MX racing in the future ... Seems like the bike is not breaking and on a few occasions he has ran closer to the front or at least his lap times has been on par with the leaders ... So I'm saying... The bike is ready.
 
I would LOVE to see a small team pick up and ride husky's for the US nationals. I think the TC 250 would have the race development thats needed.
 
East Longmeadow said:
I would love to see that also!
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Yep I'd like to see it also but without a big push from bmw, I don't see it happening soon ... If you have been following bmw changes at Husky, it has been ~slow and sometimes surprising ... So maybe it is in the cards, just maybe not for another year or 2 ...
 
im happy that i heard they at least contacted hart and huntington last year about it, nothing came about but hey at least the cogs are turnin i reckon......... i want this blown up as a poster for my garage lol
 
ray_ray said:
Yep I'd like to see it also but without a big push from bmw, I don't see it happening soon ... If you have been following bmw changes at Husky, it has been ~slow and sometimes surprising ... So maybe it is in the cards, just maybe not for another year or 2 ...
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Very True!
 
Here are the results from the Swedish GP from the Husqvarna News Letter:

Alex Lupino got off to a flying start in the Swedish GP in Uddevalla and by the end of the first lap had got as far as fourth place. Unfortunately in the second lap a stone got wedged between the pinion and the chain, stopping the Italian rider’s TC250R and forcing him out of the race

This is at least the second time a stone stopped the bike (if my memory is correct)... I'd like to see a pic of that stone next time ...

Lupino started out in twelfth place in the second race, but was involved in a crash with three other riders on the first lap. After dropping back to twenty-eighth position when he picked himself up, Lupino fought a fine comeback, crossing the line in tenth place. As a result of the stop in the first race, Lupino drops down a place to tenth overall position in the world MX2 motocross championships.

Sounds like the same results from all year ... Maybe he should be called Unlucky Lupino.
 
Well, I guess Cairoli's stone might come under that heading as well.

At least you could see his wheel locked solid, for the long time he tried to sort it, and, the 2 /3 laps he tried to get his bike out of the mud in the second moto.........

Things happen, it's dirt biking, in this case, Mudocross, with a hell of a lot of stones mixed in.
 
bearorso said:
Well, I guess Cairoli's stone might come under that heading as well.

At least you could see his wheel locked solid, for the long time he tried to sort it, and, the 2 /3 laps he tried to get his bike out of the mud in the second moto.........

Things happen, it's dirt biking, in this case, Mudocross, with a hell of a lot of stones mixed in.
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I'm just saying the words printed by the Husky news letter are a recurring event for the second year in a row ... To include crashes, bad starts, crashes, rocks, mud, arm pump(lol) , birds flying ...

I don't know if all these same lame excuses for 2 yrs now are true or not but I do see a top of the line bike not living up to its potential ...
 
I definately agree with you on the last sentence (and, the first, basically).

They need to get another, higher level rider - but, not give Lupino the flick - he is a good rider, and improving, but he seems to be a victim of a fair few, often bizzare, mechanicals.

The fact that Leib did pretty well, on a bike developed to the 'Nth' degree, might be a wake up call for Husky. A lot of their problems, may be 'Team' related, I think.
 
bearorso said:
I definately agree with you on the last sentence (and, the first, basically).

They need to get another, higher level rider - but, not give Lupino the flick - he is a good rider, and improving, but he seems to be a victim of a fair few, often bizzare, mechanicals.

The fact that Leib did pretty well, on a bike developed to the 'Nth' degree, might be a wake up call for Husky. A lot of their problems, may be 'Team' related, I think.
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There was a guy on the very inside of the racing team over there ... he wrote a very different view point of the racing over there from what this news letter is reporting ... I'd have to go back and read his words but they are here on CH somewhere ...
 
ray_ray said:
There was a guy on the very inside of the racing team over there ... he wrote a very different view point of the racing over there from what this news letter is reporting ... I'd have to go back and read his words but they are here on CH somewhere ...
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Hey Ray, here it is:
"Nice press release but it is not accurate regarding Michael. I'll set the record straight. Michael last rode a practice Husky the week before Lommel when he and Lupino broke their practice bikes. Michael did not ride the week leading up to Lommel or the week the team stayed in Belgium before Loket. Michael broke a transmission in Lommel and was having problems again with a transmission in practice at Loket. He told the team about this but there was no spare and or they were unwilling to change the engine before the qualifying race. Michael crashed in that race and did not race on Sunday. Lupino broke his bike in Moto 1 and chose not to race moto 2 in Loket. The team chose not to go to Great Britain. Ricci finally convinced Husky that they needed to change the electronics over to GET. Michael flew home to the US the Monday after Loket, saw his doctor on Tuesday and was released to ride. He tried to get a practice bike and went round and round with Husky Italy and Husky North America...... no practice bike for over two weeks more. The Monday before Michael flew back to Italy Martino, who would not answer his phone or respond to emails finally responded and after some heated discussions allowed Michael to ride his Honda CRF250 to practice..... he rode Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday then flew to Italy and spent another week off the bike in Italy before going to Gaildorf for the GP. I say this because in Husqvarna's press release they were not honest accusing Michael of not being in physical condition when in fact the bike developed fuel injection problems on lap 1 one of moto 2. Michael DNF'd moto 2 because of a mechanical problem! The rest of the facts are that Michael raced a production 2012 head and cylinder while Lupino had the factory race engine which a Husqvarna employee told me made at least 2 more hp than Michael's. Lupino also had the GET technicians crawling all over Lupino's bike which had data acquisition and gps. In addition Lupino received a new rear tire for the second moto Michael ran the same tire from moto 1. In the end Michael finished the higher moto score, 7th, and was the first Husky rider to place in the top ten since 1999 when Chiodi won the championship. Michael is proud of this and just wants to finish out his contract but wants the record straight. The engine Michael finished 7th on produces 37 hp..... 8-10 less than the other factory bikes and while I'm setting the record straight Michael did four hours, a half a day, of suspension testing all year with Technical Touch KYB. Hardly enough time to for Michael to develop any confidence with the bike. There have been many issues to overcome for Michael and Husqvarna and honesty and integrity are priority number one in Michael's camp. In fairness to Husqvarna Michael knew full well that 2011 would be a development year and has been positive through the year with all the problems without complaining, in return he expects that they would also be fair and validate his accomplishments with the same honesty and integrity by not making excuses"
 
Sounds like a pretty weak team effort but that was last yr... I was hoping for better results this yr but the results look and what is written sounds very familiar and about the same ... AL is in 10th place now overall ... Not sure where he or ML finished last year overall ...

Maybe he was flicking Husky Italy and Husky North America off each time around the track? .... :)

I'll be very disappointed if bmw pulls the plug and shelves the entire effort ...
 
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