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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

For those with upgraded bars...

Clete

Clete

Husqvarna
AA Class
Just curious if you upgraded the grips along with the bars, or used the factory grips

The plus for the stock grips, is they are still new, the ends are already eliminated for handguards, and no additional cost. The only down side is having to drill/tap the new bars, which isn't that big of a deal.

The plus for aftermarket grips, more comfortable
 
I re-used the stock grips.
But rather than drill/tap for the non-throttle side, I simply put in slightly oversized set screws in the stock grip carrier.
I had to cut back the grip a little in the area of the screws, but to date that grip has not budged.

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Further redneck/ace hardware engineering
I made inserts for the stock bar end weights out of well nuts with the flange trimmed off, some lock nuts/washers and really long bolts.

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Clete said:
Just curious if you upgraded the grips along with the bars, or used the factory grips
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I kept my original grips when I installed my Protaper Contours. Had to hammer on the LHD grip with some lube to put into position.
Clete said:
The only down side is having to drill/tap the new bars, which isn't that big of a deal.
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I used the expanding plug set up that came with the Barkbuster mount kit. I'm satisfied it provides good retention.
 
I also kept my original grips when installing a set of Renthal high rise fatbars. Just had to make some 18mm OD 12mm ID sleeves for the new riser clamp (ended up making it from 20mm round teflon). Also I drilled a new hole in the bars for the screw (easy done).
As for end weights, put a set Barkbusters on with their end weights and all seems ok!
 
AUS_TR650 said:
I kept my original grips when I installed my Protaper Contours. Had to hammer on the LHD grip with some lube to put into position.

I used the expanding plug set up that came with the Barkbuster mount kit. I'm satisfied it provides good retention.
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Ya, that left grip will take some tapping to get it on. I went to hardware store yesterday to get some longer bolts for the expanding plugs that came with the Cycras, and to get a tap in case I decided to tap the bar for the stock grips, and ended up losing the little screw for the stock gripper. hahaha, got one more.

Next said:
I just bought some cheap heated grips on amazon. Works like a charm.
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Im doing the Simtek heaters. I think I may just go with some Pro Taper or Renthal grips while im at it
 
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