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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Mechanical "hicc ups" ?

gavcan01

gavcan01

Husqvarna
B Class
Ok. Not sure if I should even post this but I think it will be good for me as part of the cleansing process. I'm a bit pedantic when it comes to servicing my bikes and its important to make sure everything is within tolerance and torqued up to spec for the riders upmost safety, although it would seem.
Below is the result of "rushing" your supermoto conversion on your TE449 to blap around the streets after work. After changing the front wheel and thinking "I'll come back to that after the changing the rear" some nameless idiot (me) forgot to torque up the calliper adapter bolts.IMG_0483.JPG

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Bottom bolt came loose first and the calliper adapter wedged in the rotor causing front wheel to lock up causing a bit of catapult action. Lucky enough to walk away with no skin off and the most part so did the bike. Only a nasty scratch on the fork tube which needs replacing and a bent subframe which is bent back.
So please answer me this. Is there anyone else out there who may have had a bit of a monumental f up due to rushing or just plain numnutism. :doh:
 
Glad you are ok after that! I myself at 54 now have had a few of those "I'll get back to it" later moments or just rushing and forget to do something oversites. Posting it here may be a good reminder to fellow members and guest that we ALL need to be careful and finish things before we forget and pay with our hides. Thanks for posting it up :cheers:.
 
I am also quite pedantic with maintenance. During my recent valve clearance check I used a clean rag on the open top end and sat the valve cover back on to keep everything clean until I could finish the job. It nearly got put back together until I realised I had a missing rag. I'd say I would have killed the motor had I have started and test rode it.
 
Also. A long time ago the bike stopped running when deep in the bush with the new bike and a few very "husqvarna critical" friends. Couldn't figure but what was wrong as the fuel pump primed , starter ran well. Commenced to remove the spark plug which was also tested fine. Got my very unhappy wife to retrieve me and the bike in the 4*4. After significant investigation at home the "repair" ended up consisting of a small volume of fuel inserted into the fuel tank....
I forgot that last ride I used the trip meter for something other than keeping track of fuel but didn't fill up the tank.
 
You're a brave and honest man! Most, me included, would have never taken the pictures, not even considered posting the pictures I never took and blamed the faliure due to metal fatigue on the conveniently missing 10mm bolt, repaired the damage the same day in secret buying parts with used notes and pretended it never happened and never told anyone what didn't happen!
 
Freaky said:
blamed the faliure due to metal fatigue on the conveniently missing 10mm bolt, repaired the damage the same day in secret buying parts with used notes and pretended it never happened and never told anyone what didn't happen!
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Trust me that thought was the first thing that came to mind!
 
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