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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Carrying a Pillion

D

drooh

Husqvarna
I am looking at buying a Tera when they arrive here in Bali. I want to carry my girlfriend on the back but am not sure how hot the exhausts get. Does anyone have experience as a passenger on the Terra ?
 
This is a great question drooh. My wife was on the bike for about 45 miles and her nylon pants were melted all over the pipes on both sides. Pants are ruined and the pipes will need to be heated and scraped with something and will probably never look the same again. So there you go...lots of heat.

The Terra in stock form is not good for a pillion. My wife is only 5'1" and her knees were cramped and she kept sliding forward and having to pull herself back. The bike still performed as well as ever, but rider comfort is not good.

Here is what you could do if you are set on the Terra. Fabricate something to lower the passenger pegs, pull the seat apart and remove some foam from the rear of the seat pad or add to the front of the passenger section, and add heat shields to the pipes. All these modifications would be very inexpensive as long as you did them all yourself.
 
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