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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

New Bike

Farkling? Haven't heard that one before. So what happens to the license plate once I remove the bracket?
 
"Farkles" is our term for all the fun accessories we add. There have been several methods to removing that bracket, but gravity and inertia seem to be the most effective and ruthless methods, and they tend to take the fender with the bracket when they strike.

The problem is that plate is HEAVY, and it hangs several inches out on a plastic fender. You just want to get the weight off, and that is all. I took a hard plastic liner from a soft bag and used it to make my own bracket.

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showpost.php?p=23195454&postcount=2689

Lots of ideas here too:
http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/13-tr650-strada-license-plate-mounting-bracket.41093/
 
You could try Bill's, they toss on a plastic license plate holder/backer to the TRs before they go out the door.
They may be from a 630 or something. Probably have them in stock. Can't imagine costing much
 
That's exactly what I did. I think it was less than $15 shipped. Not dirt cheap, but a clean install that allows the retention of the side marker reflectors. Can get the husky part num if interested.
 
Oh & make sure the chain is loosey goosey b/c when the swing-arm travels up it will tighten & stress engine components.
 
Thanks for the heads up! I'll have to tI take care of that ASAP. Is it just me or is the radiator fluid clear?
 
hasenpfeffer said:
That's exactly what I did. I think it was less than $15 shipped. Not dirt cheap, but a clean install that allows the retention of the side marker reflectors. Can get the husky part num if interested.
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I'm continually intrigued by the fascination you Americans have with side marker reflectors. On a moving bike, I can't see what function, if any, that they perform. Care to explain ?
 
nev.. said:
I'm continually intrigued by the fascination you Americans have with side marker reflectors. On a moving bike, I can't see what function, if any, that they perform. Care to explain ?
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Federal law requires at least one red rear reflector on a motorcycle. If I recall correctly, it requires one amber reflector on each side. Some states go further to require more reflectors. However, most states and cops don't seem to care.
 
RidingDonkeys said:
Federal law requires at least one red rear reflector on a motorcycle. If I recall correctly, it requires one amber reflector on each side. Some states go further to require more reflectors. However, most states and cops don't seem to care.
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Fair enough. It seems that in order to satisfy US regulations, the bike manufacturers litter our bikes with stupid looking little yellow reflectors. Husqvarna didn't seem to worry much about those reflectors though, the fork reflectors looked to be held on with a mixture of glue and wishful thoughts.
 
nev.. said:
Fair enough. It seems that in order to satisfy US regulations, the bike manufacturers litter our bikes with stupid looking little yellow reflectors. Husqvarna didn't seem to worry much about those reflectors though, the fork reflectors looked to be held on with a mixture of glue and wishful thoughts.
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One of mine fell off on the trip home from the dealers first day! Just held on with double sided tape.
 
FreddoFrog said:
One of mine fell off on the trip home from the dealers first day! Just held on with double sided tape.
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I was the first person to ride the first demo Terra that my dealer got his hands on. The odometer said 2km when I rolled it down their drive and 3km when one of the reflectors fell off. I didn't know about it, but my wife was following on her bike and saw it go.
 
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