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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Fitting a windscreen from a 250 Ninja

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lewo

Husqvarna
AA Class
I thought I would share this in case anyone was interested.

I just finished fitting a 250 Ninja screen to the SWM for a bit better comfort on the highway. The screen was 20 bucks on ebay (new from China) and the brackets were made from scrap aluminium sheet. I've bodged up screens before and the key to stopping the plastic from cracking is to soft mount them with plastic or rubber between the screen and any metal fittings. The styling might not be to everyones tastes but for 20 bucks I reckon it's alright

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Have you already tried it? Does it noticeably relieve the aerodynamic stress of your body?
 
Screen looks good. Could you kindly give me your opinion on the tyres off road please.
 
Yesterday I went out for a blast and the wind was howling. Good news is the screen takes all the wind pressure off the chest. The air stream hits about chin height but is pretty smooth so no annoying head wobble. I'm happy enough to leave it how it is.
 
The standard tyres are OK in the dry but I reckon they would cake up with mud pretty quick with the narrow tread spacings. They move around a bit on the Perth ball bearing gravel but that just makes it more fun. Drop a foot down and slide it round!
 
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