• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

450 510 Centerstand

thehusk

thehusk

Husqvarna
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I realize the 450/510 is not a big dualsport bike but I'm thinking a center stand for my bike would be nice. So lets hear what you think about weight added to the bike is the frame with only the 4 mounting points going to be strong enough to support a centerstand? Cause i'm thinking if I can have a skidplate made of aluminum and the centerstand mounted to that. Being made of aluminum or steel..........what do you think?
 
Some where on here I posted a thread on here about this topic but can't find it. Bottom line the consensus was that nope, there isn't one out there and most people thought it was a waste. There is one guy who makes custom ones for the 600's but when I contacted him he said he hadn't mocked one up and didn't have any plans to make one.
 
WOW!! like being shot down by a chick at the bar. I was just curious to see if anyone else had some +/- ideas about it. To me it would be a tool that you never use until you do then your happy you have it. Not a tool worth carring with me apprently, I'll just find a stump or something.
 
I just purchased a regular dirt bike stand for under $100. I have a cheap-o telescoping one, but wanted something a bit more stable. Honestly I could never see interest in a 'centerstand'. There's no mounting tabs nor enough room to bolt clamps to the frame.
 
I wasn't talking in the comfort of my garage. Some of the places I go there are no stumps, logs, rocks. Apparently I just need to conform to everyone elses ideals.
 
It would be a good idea for a long dual sport ride, but the other 98% of the time wouldn't be wanted or used. What I've seen & thought was an awesome idea is, use the kick stand and an adjustable stand on the other side. Think a length adjustable cane or crutch, cut to length, with a "U" on the top.
Place it under the frame when needed & in a back pack or other suitable storage when not needed.
You stick it near the rear for rear wheel use & near the front for front end use.

I used such a gizmo last year from a fellow rider & thought it was awesome to have.
Made changing a flat so, so much easier. It would be great for lubing your chain on a trip also.

When you don't need it, leave it home, no excess weight from a much more complicated centre stand.

P.S.

I'll be making my own in a couple weeks. Just in case I go on a trip someday :)
 
When I've had flats and nothing was around to put under the skid I just laid the bike on its side on the ground. Worked fine for me.
 
Fast1 said:
When I've had flats and nothing was around to put under the skid I just laid the bike on its side on the ground. Worked fine for me.
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There's solutions to almost every need, some are just a little more convenient than others.
After a long hard day of riding in sweltering heat, this little gizmo (trail stand, or home made version) makes flat fixing a lot easier.
I was fully prepared to put my bike on it's side last year to fix my flat when this co-rider pulled out this gizmo (made out of an old cane with a "U" bolt on the top)
It worked like a dream and made the job much easier.
So much easier that I wrote myself a note to make my own version. Got a lot of notes on what to do & what not to do LOL.
Just in case I'm able to finish my trip this year :) :cheers:
 
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