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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

650 Terra Farkles

FYI Standard universal bar/fat bar adapters/risers won't work on the bike. Ordered parts weeks ago and just picked the bike up yesterday(finally!). Front of bottom clamp is taller than back = not level for adapters. I'll get some from motorsportz. Thought this might save someone from doing it twice like me!
 
FWIW another riser/adapter option is the Powermadd PoweRiser 475.
I love this system as you not only raise the bar, but can postion it forward or back as well.
Similar to Rox risers but being a 1 piece design they a lot more soild.
I have both and I can twist the ROX set up, but not the PoweRiser.

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Any of you guys have any luck with non-factory handguards? I'm looking for some that fit without removing the bar end weights. Preferably with an aluminum rail in them (not over priced touratech.)
 
blaine.hale said:
Any of you guys have any luck with non-factory handguards? I'm looking for some that fit without removing the bar end weights. Preferably with an aluminum rail in them (not over priced touratech.)
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My guess, and it is a guess, is that you won't be succesful. However, I think Cycra makes a Center Reach handguard which is longer than standard and is designed to go all the way to the bar mounts on the tripple clamp. You would have to experiment to see if thes will work, maybe with the Cycra fork mounts. Other than that, no ideas.
 
Ogre_fl said:
FWIW another riser/adapter option is the Powermadd PoweRiser 475.
I love this system as you not only raise the bar, but can postion it forward or back as well.
Similar to Rox risers but being a 1 piece design they a lot more soild.
I have both and I can twist the ROX set up, but not the PoweRiser.

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Ogre, do you have to use a ring or open ended spanner to tighten the two bolts on the front of the oem bar clamp holding those PoweRisers? I have the Rox as well and found they twisted a bit, those PoweRiser look great.
 
Xch said:
Ogre, do you have to use a ring or open ended spanner to tighten the two bolts on the front of the oem bar clamp holding those PoweRisers? I have the Rox as well and found they twisted a bit, those PoweRiser look great.
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On the DRZ I use an open end wrench to tighten the forward bolts.
On other bikes that have alan head bolts I rotate the mount back,
tighten the front enough so I can just barely rotate the mount, then rotate it forward and only torque the back ones.

I had to do the same with the rox.
 
blaine.hale said:
Any of you guys have any luck with non-factory handguards? I'm looking for some that fit without removing the bar end weights. Preferably with an aluminum rail in them (not over priced touratech.)
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I added these PowerMadd Star series handguards for wind protection. No aluminim rail, but simple to install/uninstall. They seems to do a fair job. I went for a 30 min ride at 37F and it was tolerable.
 

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I added these PowerMadd Star series handguards for wind protection. No aluminim rail, but simple to install/uninstall. They seems to do a fair job. I went for a 30 min ride at 37F and it was tolerable.
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They look great! Was the install straight forward? any modifications to the bar ends or the handguards required ?
 
Thanks! They were easy to install. Requires a 10mm socket and wrench, and a 3mm allen wrench. It took maybe 30-45 minutes, including reading the instructions all the way through. The instructions were helpful because there are 8 possible configurations for mounting, but only 2 of them will work. I put them on in the gap immediately adjacent to the hand grips. There's a minor clearance issue with the brake fluid reservoir on the right mount -- it's no big deal. The quality of materials is good, but because there's only the one point of attachment for each guard, and no rail, they're not going to provide any protection when I drop the bike. They do give some protection from the wind and small objects.
 
Going for it. I ordered the HDB guards, top clamp, bars and anti-vibe inserts. Now I need the risers from Motosportz and that is in progress, I hope. HDB stuff is really top, and I'll be returning my Acerbis guards which just arrived this evening. I have HDB on the 630 and I don't think there is anything better (or more expensive!). I took IPA Brewer's lead and got the Henry Reed bend, almost the same as CR High. Ordering bars and guards thru HDB means they are pre drilled and tapped for the inserts, and the guards should fit pretty well. One problem coming up though is the key access. The HDB top clamp will cover it partially but I think trimming the key head will take care of that. I hope! The heated grips will follow, even though they may not work very well on the aluminum bars.
 
Kenneth Webb said:
Going for it. I ordered the HDB guards, top clamp, bars and anti-vibe inserts. Now I need the risers from Motosportz and that is in progress, I hope. HDB stuff is really top, and I'll be returning my Acerbis guards which just arrived this evening. I have HDB on the 630 and I don't think there is anything better (or more expensive!). I took IPA Brewer's lead and got the Henry Reed bend, almost the same as CR High. Ordering bars and guards thru HDB means they are pre drilled and tapped for the inserts, and the guards should fit pretty well. One problem coming up though is the key access. The HDB top clamp will cover it partially but I think trimming the key head will take care of that. I hope! The heated grips will follow, even though they may not work very well on the aluminum bars.
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Let us know how those handguards fit! I took the Terra on single track and ATV trails yesterday and desperately needed hand guards. Already broke the brake lever :)
I'll do a ride report with videos later.
 
Just got the Touratech handguards. Easy installation and don't need to cut the levers nor reroute or move anything. I ordered the white handguards plus the red spoilers. They are all plastic but they look good anyways...

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