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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Husqvarna 2016 helmets

A whole 140 without gear and 5'8. The 300 don't have to work hard at all and my 500 doesn't even know I'm there haha I'm used to not touching the ground easily as my dad gave me my 85 500 when I was 16 and it was never easy to stop so i never did haha
 
Actually I meant small! Not sure why I typed short! Haha! But I thought that was a kid riding that bike!
 
Awesome Bill. I personally like having gear that represents the brand! I even have a bunch of my dads husky products stuff still.
 
My helmet is a tad small but I heard about putting a deflated soccer ball in it and pumping it up.
 
Bigbill said:
My helmet is a tad small but I heard about putting a deflated soccer ball in it and pumping it up.
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wow, are you serious? that actually had me laughing out loud...i mean, the mental picture alone..
really talking about some bad helmet fouls in this thread...hey its only a concussion
 
The soccer ball will widen the helmet. The length is perfect it's a bit narrow. I have another new helmet with the same problem. I will ride slow I'll be fine.
 
I should buy another. I purchased a good brand of a older new husky helmet for the grandson. Still new in the box. It's a AGV for the kid.

With my accidents with the tractor and my two falls in the house my son says I need to wear my dirtbike gear all the time. Little punk kid, lmao.
 
Bigbill said:
My helmet is a tad small but I heard about putting a deflated soccer ball in it and pumping it up.
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The cushioning foam can be easily modified for a better fit without compromising safety at all (the energy absorbing foam- I don't recommend touching it... although I have in the past).

Use a dremel with a coarse stone and put small holes and grooves in the cushions (aka pads, padding). Go slow, try the fit on many times until you get a good feel for the effect. I should mention that you're taking the cushions out and working the backside of 'em.

I also do the Dick Burleson-recommended modification of removing the padding in the mouth guard. It does nothing but restrict air into your lungs and face, also it causes your goggles to fog up more in the cold. Some people have a hard time understanding how safety is not compromised by this mod: so imagine the sequence of events and the force needed for your face to impact the guard on a strapped-on helmet... and you'll realize you have way-way bigger problems at this stage of an impact than a lack of padding.

Dick is a pretty good engineer.

Bigbill- I don't recommend using a inflating soccer ball to permanently compress the energy absorbing foam (typically some kind of expanded polystyrene). I have mildly modified particular areas of a helmet eps- you might try that (sandpaper, dremel etc). OTOH, I really doubt you will loose enough energy absorbing ability to make a noticeable difference in any normal hit. Safety Nazi's will freak of course, but using reasonable judgement- you'll be good.
 
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