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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Cold weather commuting

deb

deb

Husqvarna
B Class
Well about ready to turn 1,000 miles and all well so far on my replacement strada so decided time to accessorize. The bulk of my riding is in the cold and crazy enough to venture out in 10 degree weather.
Last weekend pulled out the oxford heated grips and set up wasn't too painful. Although I showed it to my husband who is an electrical engineer and he quickly took over. I did trim and glue on the grips. They are a tight fit but easy. Do yourself a favor on the left there is are two screws just under the grip that take the whole grip off the handlebar. the controller plate takes some bending to fit on.
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wires somewhat bulky and not easy to hide on strada. Overall work well and 75% works great in lower 30's with wind.
The other essential for me is a heated jacket liner by gerber and heated glove liners for those below 30 days. My husband likes the red and black connecters as the don't easily come apart and he has helped me convert my plug in gear to these. He attached a multi connector to the battery fused of course and was able to bring it up through the left side panel.
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I also found out that dual exhaust acts nicely as a seat warmer and the touratech handguards are essential for wind block. Overall set up for nice cold weather commuting. Plastic ziplock back to put my thermal starbucks cup and well most of the other stuff in the topcase is frozen by work and my eyelids are usually frosted but man am I awake for the first hour.

deb
 
thought I would show you the other commute stuff. I have had bad luck on other bike with engine guards and stress fractures so actually prefer sliders. liked the front and rear sliders so here is r and g set up.
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Have a really bumpy road that shakes the rear bumper hard so decided to get rid of the boat anchor that holds the license plate. I got a thin one inch plate holder from a yamaha dealer and had to remove posts as too wide and drilled a couple holes and what a great fit light and bottom fender supported by license. so far so good.
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deb
 
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