• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

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My first two mods:

-Axio tail bag. Hue of red is surprisingly close.
-trickle charger dongle, since the bike's home will be our vacation cabin
 
mario33 said:
v12gte - i love that 'WYJŚCIE AWARYJNE' sign ;) any closer connections to Poland ?
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guilty as charged. Grew up in Wroclaw (pop 750K), and came to the USA for college. Liked it and stayed (legally, even !)
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The other sign next to it is "Wal smialo, wioze tesciowa", which means "Go ahead and hit me, I am transporting my mother-in-law"
 
First time ever posting to any forum. Bought terra from Dan @ Exotica last Friday.Dropped bike in parking lot; thought "suicide" kickstand was down. Next morning cut off pin holding kickstand spring,drilled hole and installed bolt about 1/2" forward of old pin and attachted spring. kickstand snaps into place up and down now. Has new bars and bark busters. Has husky tail bag. First want is front sprocket;gears way too high for me. Fun,easy bike to ride. will post pics when I find out how. Dan took pic of mod.
 
redridnhood said:
First time ever posting to any forum. Bought terra from Dan @ Exotica last Friday.Dropped bike in parking lot; thought "suicide" kickstand was down. Next morning cut off pin holding kickstand spring,drilled hole and installed bolt about 1/2" forward of old pin and attachted spring. kickstand snaps into place up and down now. Has new bars and bark busters. Has husky tail bag. First want is front sprocket;gears way too high for me. Fun,easy bike to ride. will post pics when I find out how. Dan took pic of mod.
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Welcome! Don't be shy! :cheers:
redridnhood said:
First time ever posting to any forum...
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Some information here might save you some frustration:
If you click 'reply' then type in the box at the bottom of the page, you will quote that person - like I did with you. And you will receive an 'Alert' which should bring you right to this post..
Here is more information, including how to put up pictures, post #4.
http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/creating-posts-threads-read-this-one.16262/

FYI - this entry I am making is referred to as a 'post', the lists of posts you are reading is called a 'thread' (also called a discussion). So this thing you are reading '650 terra farkles' is called a thread.

Hope that helps.
 
Heard from my dealer yesterday. Looks like 2 or 3 items are available now thru Husky in the way of accessories. The skid plate and the hand guards and I think the headed grips was the third. The bags are available December first and come only as a set. they were in the 800-850 dollar range. I was hoping to be able to grab the bag mounts and the rear rack and adapt my own bags but so far no part numbers available to order each rack individually. That has to change I am sure. Personally waiting for Motosports skid plate. Windscreen will be avail in November as well. Will try to get a list and prices and date availability if interested.
 
Anyone got the tupperware off the sides? I made a quick attempt last night but ran into a plastic fastener at the lower front edges that I can't figure out. It looks like a press fit thing that would come out with reasonable force, but I went past reasonable a ways and it wouldn't budge. Before I ruin it I thought I'd see if anyone had them off. I want run GPS power up to the front, and maybe put a powerlet in the plastic on the left side.
 
krussell said:
Anyone got the tupperware off the sides? I made a quick attempt last night but ran into a plastic fastener at the lower front edges that I can't figure out. It looks like a press fit thing that would come out with reasonable force, but I went past reasonable a ways and it wouldn't budge. Before I ruin it I thought I'd see if anyone had them off. I want run GPS power up to the front, and maybe put a powerlet in the plastic on the left side.
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After you get all the screws out,pull out the black plastic dart(looks like a little black button) on the inside,then pull the red plastic out at the top until you can get to the place where the red and black are sandwiched together at the very front.Using a screw driver CAREFULLY pop the two apart from the top.One is just interlocked with the other.Could have been a better design.
 
big-t said:
After you get all the screws out,pull out the black plastic dart(looks like a little black button) on the inside,then pull the red plastic out at the top until you can get to the place where the red and black are sandwiched together at the very front.Using a screw driver CAREFULLY pop the two apart from the top.One is just interlocked with the other.Could have been a better design.
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Thanks, that worked. I was concerned about the "pull out the black plastic dart" part, but it worked fine. Plenty of space on the left side for a powerlet socket, I ordered one.
 
I'm a top case fan, and thought I'd give a Pelican a try. It came today, here's some shots of the test fit. It's just sitting on bubble wrap to keep it from sliding off the rack while I take the pictures. Case is a Pelican 2450 Storm model, not huge, not small. I'm liking it enough to start drilling, but before I do thought I'd make sure I wasn't missing anything. Your comments welcome. I'm thinking of mounting it just far enough back to get at the two rear rack screws, which looks right to throw my tent bag between me and the case. The rack is plastic, but seems strong enough. I'm thinking I'm just going to use the three wholes in the rack, they are cut out for holding a nut on the bottom. The top taper or the wholes is interesting, not sure what if anything to do about it. I was thinking, from the bottom:

Nylock nut - rack - fender washer - bottom of case - fender washer - head of bolt.

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Just got the release ,got the skid pan for the Terra going to china hat. Have got to put it on and hand guards right now.Bags and cases or due for release from Husky 12/01/12
 
Someone suggested milk crate over on advrider. I happened to have one that almost matches the husky black:

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Giant Loop Fandango tank bag. Waterproof if you use included sealer. Fits this bike perfectly, almost like it was made for it. Not tons of storage, but enough. Only one big pocket with an adjustable divider and top see through map pocket. I thought it would bother me that it did not have outside pockets, but it turned out not to be a problem at all. It was never in my way standing or sitting. It does not interfere with steering at all as long as you install it correctly. I am 100% happy with this bag!
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Toyboy said:
Heard from my dealer yesterday. Looks like 2 or 3 items are available now thru Husky in the way of accessories. The skid plate and the hand guards and I think the headed grips was the third. The bags are available December first and come only as a set. they were in the 800-850 dollar range. I was hoping to be able to grab the bag mounts and the rear rack and adapt my own bags but so far no part numbers available to order each rack individually. That has to change I am sure. Personally waiting for Motosports skid plate. Windscreen will be avail in November as well. Will try to get a list and prices and date availability if interested.
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Might be interested in the heated grips. It is getting darn cold up here at 9000 ft.!
 
A buddy of mine and I would ride into work even under 20 degrees and he had heated gear and heated handgrips. He said he only used the gear and even in those temps it would get to hot. Just something else for you guys to think about
 
LandofMotards said:
A buddy of mine and I would ride into work even under 20 degrees and he had heated gear and heated handgrips. He said he only used the gear and even in those temps it would get to hot. Just something else for you guys to think about
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I think you are way tougher than me!
 
Posting a few pics of the completed bar swap using Motosports bar mounts. Really happy with the quality of the mounts Kelly. They look great! I happen to have a set of these bars from a BMW G650X cross country. I went with these because they still use the bar end weights. Did some weighing too to get an idea of what I had changed weight wise.
Stock bars weigh 2.5 pounds and the fat bars weigh 1.4 pounds. Just over a pound difference. I am going with the BMW bar ends and they are actually .425 pounds versus the .625. With the bar end inserts, they are kind of a wash so no real gain here so using the BMW stuff with inserts would be essentially the same weight.
Did weigh the stock battery versus the Shorai and will post under " Mods" thread as well but the Shorai weighs in at 2.3 pounds versus the OEM at 9.2 pounds. 6.9 pounds just in the battery swap. Pretty amazing. Did not weigh the cross bar but it is for a 1200 GS and is a from Touratech.huskybars.jpghuskybars2.jpg
 
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