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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

Beefier Rear Rack Replacement Options...

I am working on a plate that bolts at the 3 on the plastic rack and extends forward to pick up the 2 bolts just behind the seat. It will have tabs around the front-sides turned down and 2 on the rear turned up. It will be cut on a water jet and have cut outs to lighten it up some. It should stiffen up the rear rack quite a bit and will be larger than the stock rack.
 
Too bad Motosportz doesn't make a rack like the one they made for my TE 250. It is a work of art.
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RidingDonkeys said:
I've always liked TCI's products, but for some reason I forgot about them when having this discussion. I just shot them an email though. Hopefully they will be interested in making something for us. I'd love to see a Sequoia type system for the TR. Here is the one of their options they did for the TE630.

https://tciproductsusa.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=144_155_197&products_id=755
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We need a TR650 for prototyping in Orange, CA. See thread below.

http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/tr650-needed-near-orange-ca.33786/
 
Ruggedexsposure over on the ADV terra thread is thinking of fabbing some rear racks and is looking for some input.
 
That looks great! Have already the BRMoto sideracks and I'm very pleased with them. Sign me up.
 
I am having an extended plate made that will cover the stock plastic plate and use the 3 holes as well as the 2 holes up front that mount the SW Motech pannier brackets. I will machine a couple of tapered spacers to let the plate sit level and have a total of 5 fasteners in it. There will be tabs at the edges to tie to. I will post up A photo when I get it from the water jet guys.
 


I don't have the measurements on me, but the OD is 7/8". Its basically the same as the handlebars but with thicker walls. You can see the thickness better in the 1st pic.
 
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