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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

My Wife escaped death... Quad fell off cliff

J

JRod4928

Husqvarna
AA Class
Reminder of how dangerous our favorite hobby can be.... The quad is at the bottom of the cliff in the photo near the puddle.

Wife bailed before it fell, THANK GOD! My brother in law said it literally looked like someone pulled her off the quad from behind before it went over.

I have a new respect for Suzuki. The quad is an LTZ 250, 2007. It RODE AWAY from the crash with bent handlebars, nerf bars, slightly bent frame, blown out tire, and maybe some steering misalignment.

Unbelievable....
 

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Holy Smokes, Glad she had the cat like reflexes to get the hell off the machine. That looks like quite a drop. Is she shaken up? So glad the outcome was good...
 
Yeah we are both shaken up. As is my bro in law who saw it all happen. I've never had that close of an encounter with death. I would never have forgiven myself, I was literally swinging my leg over the bike to go help her when she started to go through tricky spot on the trail that caused her to lose control. I still wish I had been quicker to jump off the bike...
 
Wow thank God she got off that thing! Looks like an old quarry or mine. Lots of those here on the other side of PA too.
 
If you're at the dunes and you're facing the pond/lake. Go back and left up the hill. You'll recognize the cliff in the pic if you find the right spot. The pic was taken at an intersection of like 4 trails.
 
update.

All I needed to fix the quad was new tires, handle bars, grips, and plastic fasteners for the plastic (as well as a drill/driver and zip ties :) ) The frame was bent and the steering was out of alignment, but I bent the frame back to 'close enough' straight with a 8' steel ladder as a lever arm, and I had to adjust the steering using the tie rods since everything was out of alignment due to the bent frame.

All things considered - it has a bent frame and scuffed up plastic, but it's rideable.. Not even the rims were bent.... I can't say enough about this quad, it's a tank! I'll be taking it easy for a few test rides before I let her get back on it. Just to make sure there isn't a cracked weld or something that gives way in the middle of a ride.
 
Glad to hear your wife's okay, a scary situation. Hope it doesn't put her off from continuing the joys of riding.
 
JRod4928 said:
Reminder of how dangerous our favorite hobby can be.... The quad is at the bottom of the cliff in the photo near the puddle.

Wife bailed before it fell, THANK GOD! My brother in law said it literally looked like someone pulled her off the quad from behind before it went over.

I have a new respect for Suzuki. The quad is an LTZ 250, 2007. It RODE AWAY from the crash with bent handlebars, nerf bars, slightly bent frame, blown out tire, and maybe some steering misalignment.

Unbelievable....
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Yep .. very dangerous to say the least... Who schooled her on jumping off? (I tell every person who gets on my bikes to jump-off and do NOT ride it over the side of the mountain ...)
 
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