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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Both guys on one of these.
http://raptortitanium.blogspot.com/2011/08/cls-kawasaki-double-victory-in-mx1-2-at.html

This will be a good indication of the competitiveness of the 2011 TC250, Lupo has been, what a 5-10 position rider all season? if he starts off on the box...... or if he stays in his regular finishing spots provided mostly the same riders are out there in 2013. He's currently holding down 10th in WC points on the factory TC250. Tommy Searle on the CLS KXF250 is P2 in points behind the Herlings KTM.
 
is it the riders? the bikes? the crews? the company??? we need a few seasons of good finnishes in the mx area wherever it comes from.
 
robertaccio said:
Both guys on one of these.
http://raptortitanium.blogspot.com/2011/08/cls-kawasaki-double-victory-in-mx1-2-at.html

This will be a good indication of the competitiveness of the 2011 TC250, Lupo has been, what a 5-10 position rider all season? if he starts off on the box...... or if he stays in his regular finishing spots provided mostly the same riders are out there in 2013. He's currently holding down 10th in WC points on the factory TC250. Tommy Searle on the CLS KXF250 is P2 in points behind the Herlings KTM.
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He faded (if you can call it that) in the latter half of the season and lost a couple places overall ...

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Who's the new Husky rider?

WHITEROCKET5.9 said:
is it the riders? the bikes? the crews? the company??? we need a few seasons of good finnishes in the mx area wherever it comes from.
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I'd say the company ... The term 'Set up to fail' comes to my mind here ... You have young riders on a newly put together team on a new bike and then the company providing support is not on board 100% ... You (all employees on the team) are set up to fail ...
 
Who knows what bmw is allocating but Team Manager Ilario Ricci insisted in giving Monticelli a chance to race in these final world championship races on the Husqvarna TC 250R. Not sure on him or Nick Triest but maybe next year they are c0-world champions ...

WHITEROCKET5.9 said:
pissin in the wind so they(the company) can cut them(mx teams) out all together??
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Just listened to the Pulpmx podcast with Trampas Parker. He and Matthes were essentially saying that a lot of guys pay their way on to the teams. Especially in the GP's. Parents with deep pockets. Not a good trend.
 
East Longmeadow said:
Just listened to the Pulpmx podcast with Trampas Parker. He and Matthes were essentially saying that a lot of guys pay their way on to the teams. Especially in the GP's. Parents with deep pockets. Not a good trend.
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What trend and why is it not a good trend?
 
I thought I posted it before Ivo comes around with some serious cash backing. That will always open doors or should we say seats.
Marc Marquez going to motogp is the same thing
 
East Longmeadow said:
Buying your kids way on to a team. You find this ok?
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I'm not sure if it is right or wrong, good or bad on the employee side ...Whats the alternative way of getting a ride? You gotta win races at a certain level and get noticed?

Anyone given a ride, must have some qualifications or they would not be given a chance I'd guess ... You can get hurt out there before the first corner ...
 
That's the thing. At least from what they were saying in the podcast there were guys out there that shouldn't have been. Being way off pro caliber pace makes for a dangerous situation. Also, I just don't think there should be an alternative way to get a pro ride. I'd like to see the pro ranks filled with riders that got there on merit.
 
F1ED said:
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Dude, this is awesome! Not the finger, but the pic.
 
East Longmeadow said:
Very True!
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Husky's strength has really always been in the enduro/offroad arena anyway. But, the writers at MXA didn't have a lot of negative things to say about the 2012 TC250 or the 2012 TXC310.
They said, regarding the TC250, Husky was very close - it'll happen.
My biggest gripe is I can't get a "green sticker" here in the People's Democratic Republic of California.
 
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