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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Bike Stands

HuskyDude

HuskyDude

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OK I have a couple (that don't work on the TR) and really till I get a skid plate under her...
I have a feeling all work will be done from the side stand.:banghead:

I have one that raises the bike off the floor from the engine/frame (or lack of on the TR) and puts it about waist height, but it doesn't fit under the bike. I really hate bending down to work on my bikes.
Has anyone come up with a easy way to lift this
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without breaking your back.
Might have to just get a different stand I guess.

:cheers:
 
I've had to run the rear tire of my 630 up on few 2x4s to get enough clearance for the stand to slide under... might work for the TR
 
I use this from Harbor Frieght for $99.00. I have a bigger table stand if I really have to get crazy on stuff:cheers:
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we use one of these:

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adapted to fit on this:

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when that doesnt work, we've been known to hang the bike from the hoist via a couple tie downs and the handelbars/rear frame.
 
Guys,
When I pulled my first service I just rolled it up onto my H/F table cinched it down and did my thing....When I wanted to service the chain a light weight jack under the rear suspension bits and up it went....easy peasy
 
When I get my Motosportz skid plate I will be all set... but needed to get it off the ground to do a tire repair 1-2 weeks ago, so I needed to improvise.

Took 2 ratchet straps and attached one to each end of the handle bars, then to the garage ceiling - that was to keep it from falling over. Then used a standard automotive floor jack under the rear suspension linkage.

If I really needed to lift the bike with a stand, I would probably fab up some type of spacer, possibly out of wood, irregularly shaped, which would allow a standard bike lift to be used.
 
HuskyDude said:
OK I have a couple (that don't work on the TR) and really till I get a skid plate under her...
I have a feeling all work will be done from the side stand.:banghead:

I have one that raises the bike off the floor from the engine/frame (or lack of on the TR) and puts it about waist height, but it doesn't fit under the bike. I really hate bending down to work on my bikes.
Has anyone come up with a easy way to lift this
a36.gif
without breaking your back.
Might have to just get a different stand I guess.

:cheers:
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