Khaaf162
Husqvarna
AA Class
Has anyone used or know anything about this little winch think for bikes. Looks like it could come in handy. Here is a little video about it.
View: http://youtu.be/oXwRcnqXWUk
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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
FE/FC Stuckmate
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Husqvarna
justintendo
klotz super techniplate junkie
interesting, never heard of it! not really specific to austrian husqvarna however
bikesparky
Husqvarna
AA Class
LOL Totally agree!
Here you get help when you stuck under the bike, not to drag your lazy ass up a hill.
Only use I can see would be on a big adv bike and then they should have made it electric so you can pull yourself out of trouble when camping remotely.
They tried to post on a local FB page to sell them, didn't get any replies or likes.
ohmygewd
Husqvarna
Pro Class
When's the auto version with remote control being released...might order me a lightbar and a 3inch lift too as well
The idea is sound if you like to ride solo a lot but defeats the purpose of laughing at your mate trying to get up a gnarly hill before going to help them...the sense of "Com'on mate, have a dip and pull the finger out!!"
The idea is sound if you like to ride solo a lot but defeats the purpose of laughing at your mate trying to get up a gnarly hill before going to help them...the sense of "Com'on mate, have a dip and pull the finger out!!"
Brapman629
Husqvarna
A Class
Ahh for the bike the breaks down a lot and needs towed home!
XLEnduroMan
Heroes Ride Huskys. The others follow.
I can not believe you guys that are bashing this. This is a great product! I take it you bashers have never really encountered "that" hill that you can not get back up with out looping out because it is so f*****g tight and steep.
This last summer a friend on his '10 690R and I on my '08 TE 510 were ripping along some new to us single track and I followed the leader down a WTF were you thinking hill. We both had our bikes on their sides (not by choice) before we had a spot we could straighten the bikes and make the call to turn around or keep going down in to the abyss of the forest. It kept going down out of sight and looked to be as steep or maybe steeper. We decided to turn around. We had no run at it, we were committed, he hit it first and looped out his 690 and barley missed it coming back at him. It was pointing back down the hill with a leg size tree between its front fender and tire, rubber side up. It took us several minutes to extract it, a 690 is no lightweight when you can barley stand your self up on a hill. My turn, I make it a little farther and my bike goes to loop by I saved it. We both reset and each tried it a couple more times. It was either pin it and loop out or slow it down and dig a trench from the lack of speed. It was clear we were not going to clear this hill any normal way. I had a 15 foot MSR tow strap and he had a length of climbing rope and a section of a tow strap that probably totaled another 15 feet. We joined them together and to the forks like a tugger strap and used the alternating trees on the side like pulleys. Make some ground with the bikes while the other pulled the strap and anchored our bodies to kept the bikes from looping and loosing ground as we fought the loop out. It took us probably 2 hours to get back up about 150 feet of hill. It was crazy fun!
Since then I now carry two 15 foot MSR tow straps in my pack. I continually tell my riding buddies they need to always carry at least 1 tow strap apiece. The "Stuckmate" could have saved us more then an hour that day. That's an hour of sweet single track with your buddy you can not replace.
This last summer a friend on his '10 690R and I on my '08 TE 510 were ripping along some new to us single track and I followed the leader down a WTF were you thinking hill. We both had our bikes on their sides (not by choice) before we had a spot we could straighten the bikes and make the call to turn around or keep going down in to the abyss of the forest. It kept going down out of sight and looked to be as steep or maybe steeper. We decided to turn around. We had no run at it, we were committed, he hit it first and looped out his 690 and barley missed it coming back at him. It was pointing back down the hill with a leg size tree between its front fender and tire, rubber side up. It took us several minutes to extract it, a 690 is no lightweight when you can barley stand your self up on a hill. My turn, I make it a little farther and my bike goes to loop by I saved it. We both reset and each tried it a couple more times. It was either pin it and loop out or slow it down and dig a trench from the lack of speed. It was clear we were not going to clear this hill any normal way. I had a 15 foot MSR tow strap and he had a length of climbing rope and a section of a tow strap that probably totaled another 15 feet. We joined them together and to the forks like a tugger strap and used the alternating trees on the side like pulleys. Make some ground with the bikes while the other pulled the strap and anchored our bodies to kept the bikes from looping and loosing ground as we fought the loop out. It took us probably 2 hours to get back up about 150 feet of hill. It was crazy fun!
Since then I now carry two 15 foot MSR tow straps in my pack. I continually tell my riding buddies they need to always carry at least 1 tow strap apiece. The "Stuckmate" could have saved us more then an hour that day. That's an hour of sweet single track with your buddy you can not replace.
juicypips
Husqvarna
Pro Class
In that case you should think before you follow your mate, i was stuck at the bottom of a hill on my 360 no clutch cable tried it 3 times in first no joy selected second and motored out straight to the pits to fix the issue. Was fun
A winch? Get a smaller bike or ride smart wont be adding weight to my bike with a rusty winch.
Yes we are bashing cus its stoopid and made in france!
Would look good on a hog incase you get stuck on that gravel carpark.
A winch? Get a smaller bike or ride smart wont be adding weight to my bike with a rusty winch.
Yes we are bashing cus its stoopid and made in france!
Would look good on a hog incase you get stuck on that gravel carpark.