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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Yellow-jacket in the helmet...

MorrisBetter

MorrisBetter

Husqvarna
AA Class
I took a yellow-jacket into my helmet the other day. It managed to slip in on the left side of my goggles and wedged between my cheek and the helmet pad. I poked my finger in there a few times trying to dislodge it, and BAM, I got stung. By the time I hit the ground I had three more hits, and I had donated my pay-check to the cuss-jar. Now the left side of my face looks like I gained about 40 Lbs. on that side.

Other than going with a street/dual-sport type helmet, is there a solution to the gaps that a traditional dirt helmet & goggles have? I know these little buzz-bombs live everywhere. This has to be a common problem. Somebody must have a fix.
 
I have been stung too many time by those dang things. They usually hit me in the neck and I don't notice that they are still there till they crawl down under the neck line of my riding jersey, where they promptly stab me in the wind pipe. A couple of months ago, I was riding at a motocross track following a friend over a jump. I thought that all that hit my face was some roost, but there was a yellowjacket hidden in the roost. He bumped the side of my head and got himself wedged between the helmet padding and my temple. He got me twice before leaving. It was the end of my riding for the weekend.:( Very painful, and I couldn't wear my helmet for a week, waiting for all the pain and swelling to go down. It seems to me that in my area, they are most prevalent between late July and early September. I don't usually get stung any other time of year besides late summer.
 
I feel your pain. I get stung every year or two, but it's usually on my arms or hands when I'm working outside. In most cases I can limit the stings to one by swatting or squashing the bug. In this case it was like being locked in a cage with with the damn thing. The swelling has gone down enough to see five individual stings. No fun. I really don't want to do that again.
 
MorrisBetter said:
I took a yellow-jacket into my helmet the other day. It managed to slip in on the left side of my goggles and wedged between my cheek and the helmet pad. I poked my finger in there a few times trying to dislodge it, and BAM, I got stung. By the time I hit the ground I had three more hits, and I had donated my pay-check to the cuss-jar. Now the left side of my face looks like I gained about 40 Lbs. on that side.

Other than going with a street/dual-sport type helmet, is there a solution to the gaps that a traditional dirt helmet & goggles have? I know these little buzz-bombs live everywhere. This has to be a common problem. Somebody must have a fix.
Click to expand...

I want to see some pictures.
 
I've been stung 3 times in the last two years, always on my neck just below my helmet and above the jersey.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top