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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Handguard Question

rocko

rocko

Husqvarna
AA Class
I am going to be buying handguards soon but was thinking it through and had questions.

I know there are the kinds that mount to the handlebar only and ones that mount to the triple clamp.

I can think of pros and cons to both
handlebar mount-
pros - cheaper
cons - maybe not as sturdy in a crash and can result in bent handlebars and possibly damaged radiators

triple clamp mount
pros - sturdier, distributes force of crash over more parts so each is stressed less
cons - more expensive, slightly heavier?, distributes force of crash to more parts so more parts can be damaged

I would like to know your experiences with crashing with each of these types of handguards. These are just thoughts in my head, not anything I have any proof of. I imagine many have crashed and had their handlebars bent but has anyone damaged any triple clamp parts or worse when crashing with triple clamp mounted guards? Is radiator damage common in crashes with handlebar only mounts?
 
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