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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Best way to service bike?

dnwu

Husqvarna
Hello Husky friends. Just got an SM610 and I'm trying to figure out the best way to lift the rear wheel and get the bike level. I used to use a brick underneath the kickstand to get my old Ninja 250 level and then lifted the rear wheel using some swingarm spools. But, there isn't any place to put spools on the 610 and the kickstand obviously can't be counted on to get the bike back down.

Since I'm too wussy to lift the bike onto one of those motocross stands, I figure there are 3 options:
1. Buy a rear stand that goes underneath the swingarm and modify the kickstand somehow to make the process resemble what I used to do. Is there a quick way to modify the kickstand to behave like a sport bike?
2. Buy a stand that can lift the bike via the frame. Would the oil drain bolts be blocked in this case?
3. Buy a wheel chock and a roller. Brainstormed this while looking at motorcycle lifts/stands, not sure if this will even work.

I just need a cheap and safe way to get the bike in a position to lube the chain and change the oil. Any suggestions?
 
Looks promising. Thanks for the suggestion. Are those things difficult to install?

Very easy! Its just a threaded rod that goes through the center of the axle. The sliders are held on with nuts at the ends. Just be sure to loctite the nuts on.
 
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