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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
spy shot husky/harley
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MikeB
Husqvarna
AA Class
This thread took a funny turn
I took my little brother to the Cow Palace to see Kenny Roberts flat track and Evel jumped a bunch of cars. Evel told the kids in the crowd t stay in school and that if he made the jump it would set the Hells Angels back 100 years. An Angel threw a bottle at him as he came down the alley for his jump (which he made) and the crowd beat up the Angels.
I took my little brother to the Cow Palace to see Kenny Roberts flat track and Evel jumped a bunch of cars. Evel told the kids in the crowd t stay in school and that if he made the jump it would set the Hells Angels back 100 years. An Angel threw a bottle at him as he came down the alley for his jump (which he made) and the crowd beat up the Angels.
Big Timmy
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Hilarious story above and the Sportster Motocrosser is a riot.
ray_ray
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First, thanks to you guys for setting the story straight on what Evel crashed at Caesars Palace! ... He was only a few inches short of clearing that jump ... Maybe on a HD and he would have made it? I don't recall him ever saying a bike was too heavy for him to jump 
... He was also getting second-bounces on his landing before second-bounces were even called that. He has the record for 'most endoes in a lifetime' probably!
That's the America I grew up in! ... Great, great story! Maybe Evel knew the crowd would back him? Who else would call out the angels? Thats an eye opener for me ... Your little brother owes you still today for that trip!
Evel made a bunch of $$ off kids toys ...He said he felt obligated, in turn, to give something back to kids... He would try to give out a good message to kids and would say 'do not try what he does in your back yard', always wear your helmet ... ... He was far from an heavenly angel but had a good message at times ... Not alot of the egos today ever do this ...
Evel was a class AAAAA, thoroughbred A-hole, correct? And with Evel as a father, Robbie had alot to live up to for sure ...
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Kenny Roberts?
... Kenny Roberts??? Stud .., Yamaha Studly... He 'Walked his Talk' also I do think ... He whipped, whipped, whipped the HDs that were dominating racing on his Yamaha with pure talent ... Then goes to EU and shows those guys what a rider can do on a superbike(?)... He would say 'slow in and fast out' about cornering ...
Never a bad word on this guy as far as I can know ... He made the track owners make their tracks safe for riders ... No more oil on the tracks and things like that. My hat stays off to both Evel and Kenny ... Let me taper that remark ...Kenny Roberts was a true blue factory racer and never a circus showman act as Evel ... As far as men living what they preached, both were on top. The 70s were an OK decade to grow up during... A time gone by
Check out that helmet brand
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You guys are making it hard for me to get outside and ride with all these cool threads
... He was also getting second-bounces on his landing before second-bounces were even called that. He has the record for 'most endoes in a lifetime' probably!That's the America I grew up in! ... Great, great story! Maybe Evel knew the crowd would back him? Who else would call out the angels? Thats an eye opener for me ... Your little brother owes you still today for that trip!
Evel made a bunch of $$ off kids toys ...He said he felt obligated, in turn, to give something back to kids... He would try to give out a good message to kids and would say 'do not try what he does in your back yard', always wear your helmet ... ... He was far from an heavenly angel but had a good message at times ... Not alot of the egos today ever do this ...
Evel was a class AAAAA, thoroughbred A-hole, correct? And with Evel as a father, Robbie had alot to live up to for sure ...
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Kenny Roberts?
... Kenny Roberts??? Stud .., Yamaha Studly... He 'Walked his Talk' also I do think ... He whipped, whipped, whipped the HDs that were dominating racing on his Yamaha with pure talent ... Then goes to EU and shows those guys what a rider can do on a superbike(?)... He would say 'slow in and fast out' about cornering ...Never a bad word on this guy as far as I can know ... He made the track owners make their tracks safe for riders ... No more oil on the tracks and things like that. My hat stays off to both Evel and Kenny ... Let me taper that remark ...Kenny Roberts was a true blue factory racer and never a circus showman act as Evel ... As far as men living what they preached, both were on top. The 70s were an OK decade to grow up during... A time gone by
Check out that helmet brand
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You guys are making it hard for me to get outside and ride with all these cool threads
oldbikedude
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Dirt tracking the big two stroke twin.....that takes guts. 
Big Timmy
Husqvarna
Pro Class
I believe it took more than that. They used to say it would age you 10 years riding that bike. It was probably one of the most demanding and difficult racing motorcycles to ride that was ever built. The TZ 750 2-stroke was a 4 cylinder MotoGP roadracing engine. Upwards of 120 HP, It would hit speeds of 150 miles an hour down the straightaways if you could get to hook up and get traction. At that speed you had no choice but to pitch it into a slide just to slow it down. It had no front brakes. Getting traction on this thing when it came on the pipes was difficult because it would chunk the tire down to less than 1/4 of it left by the time a race was over. Kenny used to say " They don't pay me enough to ride that thing".
After not riding this bike for 26 years. "The King Kenny Roberts" through a leg over one of the flatrack TZ750s and rode it around the Mile flattrack (I believe it was at the Indy mile) where he had won the event back in 1975. He rode it again for the crowd as an exibition run and had it pitched into a slide on the first turn like he just got off it a few laps ago. He hadn't ridden it in years. Now thats guts!
Dirt tracking the big two stroke twin.....that takes guts.
After not riding this bike for 26 years. "The King Kenny Roberts" through a leg over one of the flatrack TZ750s and rode it around the Mile flattrack (I believe it was at the Indy mile) where he had won the event back in 1975. He rode it again for the crowd as an exibition run and had it pitched into a slide on the first turn like he just got off it a few laps ago. He hadn't ridden it in years. Now thats guts!
oldbikedude
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Yes I remember his reunion ride & you are correct sir, it was a four cyl. not a twin as I stated. We seem to have similar interests.
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Here's some words from the King on that race ... You might recognize the Springsteen name ... The HD riders probably were not too surprised when Roberts put them in his rear-view mirror. That's racing!!
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Somehow, Roberts qualified for the 25-lap final. And off the line, he put himself in sixth place. But he admits that keeping the bike on the track took every bit of skill he possessed.
"In the main," Roberts recalls, "the cushion went right up to the hay bales. After the race, I had baling wire on the bike" from bouncing off the bales.
In spite of all that, Roberts closed on the leaders: Harley riders Rex Beauchamp, Corky Keener and Jay Springsteen. Then, on the last lap, "I got a terrific drive off turn three. I have no idea why. The tire was almost gone, three-quarters chunked.
"Coming off the last corner, I definitely had third, and I thought I could get second. I hit fifth gear and it was less than a quarter mile at 145, so everything happened quickly."
Somehow, Roberts got the TZ hooked up, and in the final feet of the race, blew past the Harley trio for the win.
It was a spectacular debut, but it was also the bike’s only moment of glory. Roberts tried to ride it at two more races, but reverted to his twin both times. At the end of the season, the AMA wrote new safety rules outlawing such machines in the future.
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Guts? Lots of them and guys like him are on their own level ...
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Here's the only video of that race ... You can see the HD trio, called the 'Michigan mafia' at that time, out front ... Roberts did say they were out front fooling around and when he caught them, it was too late for them to do anything about it ... Roberts says a few words on the race also ...
If you watch this short video, there is a pretty good sound track of the engine when Roberts pulls the front tire off the ground and walks it down the backstretch at the end ...
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpsZ_AUFbX4
If you watch this short video, there is a pretty good sound track of the engine when Roberts pulls the front tire off the ground and walks it down the backstretch at the end ...
oldbikedude
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Luv that video...it never gets old. That bike sounded awesome!
ray_ray
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After 5 more times of watching it, I just realized that was the 'Harley Wrecking Crew' that pulled Roberts to the top step of the podium
.. How cool is that?He still had the checkered flag with him as he was 'walking the dog' the length of back straightaway! I can't say enough good things about this guy ...
DTX915
Husqvarna
Pro Class
