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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

MS58 Super Sic, RIP

robertaccio

robertaccio

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That was a horrible, nightmare and ugly crash. I hope never to see anything like that one ever again. RIP Marco. I hope both Vale and Colin will be OK as well as the whole of the GP community. I am gutted by that one.
 
When asked if he was afraid of dying in an accident, Simoncelli apparently responded: "No. You live more for five minutes going fast on a bike like that, than other people do in all of their life."
 
I, too, felt sick to my stomach watching the coverage, and that feeling followed me all day and night. While I feel horrible for Simoncelli's family and frends, I can't help but think that this is going to haunt Edwards and Rossi til their dying days. No matter how many people tell them that it wasn't their fault, they both have to feel an overwhelming sense of responsibility for his death. I just don't know how anyone can recover from something like that...especially Rossi since he was such close friends with Simoncelli. I wouldn't be surprised to see Rossi retire after this season. It was a brutal season for him, in more ways than one. Man, a white-hot star has sadly been extinguished...Sic was the future of MotoGP, for sure. :(
 
His helmet came off right away. Makes me curious as to what it caught on and what part of it caught on something. I have been suspicious of all the newer helmets that have sharp ridges and contours on them, and have wondered what those irregular edges would do in in a crash, either on the pavement or the dirt.
 
Watched him get his Moto GP first podium the previous week at Philip Island. What a terrible loss, RIP.
 
When asked if he was afraid of dying in an accident, Simoncelli apparently responded: "No. You live more for five minutes going fast on a bike like that, than other people do in all of their life."
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Totally agree with this. There is nothing like the experience of roadracing. Nothing I do in my life will ever compare to those fleeting moments of perfection when man and machine mesh perfectly and it feels like you can do no wrong.

I can't help but think that this is going to haunt Edwards and Rossi til their dying days. No matter how many people tell them that it wasn't their fault, they both have to feel an overwhelming sense of responsibility for his death. I just don't know how anyone can recover from something like that...
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Colin has apparently made a post on his website forum and it seems like he is taking the proper perspective on this. It was an unavoidable accident and there was nothing he could have done to avoid it. Spend enough time around a racetrack and you will see stuff like this happen. It is simply a fact of racing and nobody is at fault. I think Colin is going to be OK.
 
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