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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Add tie down points on Exhaust heat shields

kswaid

kswaid

Husqvarna
A Class
While breaking in my Terra this weekend I decided to go grab a TAPP USB port from Twisted Throttle, who are about 30 miles away. I didn't feel like wearing my backpack there, so I attempted to strap it down on the back seat and rack with some Rok straps, but there are simply no good attachment points forward of the rack to do this. So, I decided to add my own to the muffler heat shields. As you can see in the pictures below I simply drilled a couple of holes in line with the existing fastener locations and screwed in a stainless steel drawer handle from the hardware store. I used a smoothly curved handle so that you won't catch a boot or anything on it while mounting or dismounting the bike. It works great and matches the mufflers so well that it looks stock. Just thought I would throw this idea out there in case anybody is having this same dilemma.



 
Well! My wife did not want me removing a Kitchen Drawer Handle so I found some Bungee Cord Bits that I never used on my 98 KLR. So just measured and cut some aluminum sheet for internal support, poked some holes and all is OK.

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I also just did a Round Trip of about 700 k's in the Philippines from Tagaytay, Cavite to Daet, Camarines Norte with 32 lbs of Cargo Bag attached and no issues. Just an Idea! Regards to All Here - In Terra, Terra Land. Chris
 
Hi Scott, Heck I really do not exactly remember. I think that I found them at a Cycle Gear shop in San Diego back in 2006 / OR at APEX MC Shop in Colorado Springs, CO in 1999 ? I just never used them on the KLR but with the Terra with the twin shields I am glad I kept them. Sorry for not being able to provide you or other riders a source. Regards, Chris
 
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