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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Mamola Podiums on a Husky!

WoodsChick

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Ok, so it's roadracing, and it's Randy Mamola's son...but his bike is powered by Husky! This is cool news for me, as I always enjoyed watching Randy Mamola race. He was always a nice guy when showing up at Alice's in his Ferrari, too:D

From Cycle News:
"Dakota Mamola took a step toward emulating his father's successful grand prix career with his first ever podium in a Catalan championship race in Montmelo, Spain.

Racing for the second weekend in a row, Dakota, the 14-year-old son of four-time 500cc World Championship runner-up Randy Mamola, qualified seventh and finished third in the Pre-125 class of the Campionats de Catalunya de Motociclisme at the Circuito de Catalunya, site of the June Catalunya Grand Prix.


The young Mamola, seen here on the grid with team manager Emilio Alzamora, the former 125cc World Champion, races in two different championships. Last week in Castelloli, Spain he qualified 10th and finished fifth in the Mediterranean championship.

Mamola rides a Metrakit Pre GP 125, powered by Husqvarna, for Team Monlau Competicion.

Already Dakota has picked up sponsorship from Monster Energy, Arai helmets, and Alpinestars leathers."



WoodsChick
 
How many times did he finish 2nd in the 500 world championships,got his autograph at the 1st Philp Island GP when he was showboating on the Cargiva,still makes me smile
 
Zim;24754 said:
How many times did he finish 2nd in the 500 world championships,got his autograph at the 1st Philp Island GP when he was showboating on the Cargiva,still makes me smile
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4 times, I believe....1980, 1981, 1984 and 1987. He was a lot of fun to watch, especially if it was raining. He's a local boy from my home town and I've always had a soft spot in my heart for him.

It was his loyalty to Cagiva that probably shortened his career. They just ran out of money.

Anyone remember this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vzHO9Evb1g



WoodsChick
 
RumRunner;25004 said:
Truth be told I would too :lol::lol: Just to get a ride on that Ducati!!
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I'd ride on the back of whatever Randy was piloting at the moment:thumbsup:

Well, maybe not the 500 2-stroke...:eek:



WoodsChick
 
I think Randy went on to finish that race the 1985 San Marino GP ( at Misano Adriatico)
with a broken fairing and badly tweaked thumb/wrist. If anyone deserved a #1 plate it was him
 
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