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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Michael Hall US Factory Husky rider 2010

Jimmy Button hooked us up with this Michael Hall update:

Michael went to Italy a couple of weeks back to ride and test for the Husqvarna factory team after trying out the bike here in the U.S. first. He is going to be racing the European SX Championship, which started last weekend in France and concludes the first week of December, so he is there for a couple of months. Unfortunately, Michael had a good get-off the first day of testing and injured his shoulder, which at the time he did not think was too major. He went on to race in France last weekend and was having a hard time riding the bike due to the shoulder hurting. When Michael returned back to Italy and had another check of it they found that he had cracked his humerus near the shoulder. So, Michael is going to be sidelined for a few weeks and then back for the Milan race the middle of November. Michael really likes the bike and the team and is really enjoying it over there right now.

Also, I want to clear a thing or two up: There has been some internet chatter about the bike breaking and causing Michael to crash which I can confirm did NOT happen. Michael crashed on his own.
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I lifted this off the racerx website. Seems someone was spreading rumors about Michael Hall's Husky breaking, resulting in the crash he had a week or so back. Sounds like he should be back up and going in a couple weeks, and that he likes the bike.
 
add to that statement issued by Jimmy Button, there was major internet chatter from the now big 5 bike crowd on various MX sites about the crappy Husky. There was also an unsubstantiated (heresay) letter written from Husky corporate to another brands pro test rider that was talking about the Husky breaking and causing the crash, demanding a retract on that statement, and all the internet goons making stupid comments about how never to buy a crappy Husqvarna.
Be aware of EU law and liability issues and as an example remember how much time and effort and money was spent on the F1 Senna crash case after there were claims of negligence on the part of the team and manufacturer. To say that a guy got hurt because of mechanical failure is taken very seriously in EU (legally). So MX people (and competing corporate payed tester) spouting off that the crappy Husky broke its suspension causing a pro rider to be injured is not just chatter at the corporate level, especially from another factory payed test rider, it can be a legal issue of corporate slander and or rider injury liability.
For us Husky fans,, just wait for the TC250 with a good pro MX rider to start arriving on the podium and let them eat crow, its just a matter of time. When it was the big four the same guys cracked on my Katos.
 
Robert, Clay, and everyone else. These are important things being discussed and it would be ideal if links were posted where this information is being taken from. It is quite difficult to tell 'who' is saying 'what'.
 
Not the ideal solution, but ok.

In the future so people can follow things a little better could links be provided when citing another site? Especially important things like this, especially when (apparently) someone is making negative comments?

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Coffee;56912 said:
That helps tremendously. I hope Michael's cracked humerus is healing.

The only thing I'm not clear on is who is Jimmy Button, race manager? No I do not know everything...
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Jimmy Button is a retired (After serious injury) Pro MX/SX rider. He
works for Action Sports Management, so I assume he is Michael Hall's agent.
 
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