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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
If I get my kit from HDB and their bottom clamps dont work I will definitely take you up on that offer.Jon - I went with a powermadd riser and fat bar setup. Or, if you want the motosportz clamps (no riser - just fat bar conversion), let me know. Bought them in black and never used them.
Thanks Motosportz, but the $35 Pro Tapers are 1-1/8 or Contours. I can get your adapters from a friend but I'm not sure if the Touratech hand guards will still fit.Good aluminum 7/8ths with a crossbar are very strong. The fatbar gives a little more and removes some impact and vibs. Enough for me so make it worth it but not a huge deal. The crossbar give you a place to mount stuff. ProTaper is very good and $35 is cheap and you don't need adaptors. Go get them.
Maybe I should be adding the $35 Touratech crossbar as a preventive measure and pick up a place to mount goodies in the bargain? http://www.touratech-usa.com/Store/...8-2013-R1200GS-ADV-oil-cooled-Husqvarna-TE630 or http://www.touratech-usa.com/Store/PN-040-0601/Cross-Bar-320mmGood aluminum 7/8ths with a crossbar are very strong. The fatbar gives a little more and removes some impact and vibs. Enough for me so make it worth it but not a huge deal. The crossbar give you a place to mount stuff. ProTaper is very good and $35 is cheap and you don't need adaptors. Go get them.
Maybe I should be adding the $35 Touratech crossbar as a preventive measure and pick up a place to mount goodies in the bargain? http://www.touratech-usa.com/Store/...8-2013-R1200GS-ADV-oil-cooled-Husqvarna-TE630 or http://www.touratech-usa.com/Store/PN-040-0601/Cross-Bar-320mm
Two screws top and bottom. I have the stock bar for you want to go that route...7 hrs away tho, you can have it for free. Pm me if you would like it.On the subject of bar replacement, how do you remove the left grip that has the plastic part underneath from the bar?
Is it glued on?
Do you just have to twist it hard or pry it to break the bond?
I assume I can just drill a couple holes just a hair smaller that the ones in the stock bars and thread the screws into them to remount the left grip. Unless anyone has any better ideas.Thanks for the offer, but I am not the guy who bent his bars.
I am doing the powermadd/fat bar swap but the grip had me stymied.
Duh, I didnt think to pull it back and look.
BTW did you see the link I posted for the powermadd risers?
You mentioned on Saturday @ Paul's that you could not find the 2" rise 7/8 - 1 1/8
Thanks for the ADV link too.
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I sent you a PM, in interested in getting those mounts from you.Jon - I went with a powermadd riser and fat bar setup. Or, if you want the motosportz clamps (no riser - just fat bar conversion), let me know. Bought them in black and never used them.
Cheapest I found Protaper SE was $58. Ebay and thats delivered to Defiance. More husky's in Defiance, MO? Nice.Hey Masterpotter, where did you find Protaper 7/8 bars for $35
Every place I have looked they are around $65
Thanks