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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Ok, so I think I just lost third gear...

What bike and year are those numbers from? The SMS or the TE. I called him this morning and he will do a Canada search. Cam.
 
You could email Husky Sport in the UK to see if they have the Gears in stock.
They have pretty much everything in stock on the shelf.
reece.hoar ' at ' huskysport.co.uk

They should ship to the other side of the pond if you ask nice.

Gav
 
Gav said:
You could email Husky Sport in the UK to see if they have the Gears in stock.
They have pretty much everything in stock on the shelf.
reece.hoar ' at ' huskysport.co.uk

They should ship to the other side of the pond if you ask nice.

Gav
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Done, we'll see what they say.
 
I got a call back from my local guy. No answer yet, but he did tell me he uses the US network. Should hear more tomorrow. Cam.
 
Gav said:
You could email Husky Sport in the UK to see if they have the Gears in stock.
They have pretty much everything in stock on the shelf.
reece.hoar ' at ' huskysport.co.uk

They should ship to the other side of the pond if you ask nice.

Gav
Click to expand...

Just heard back from Reece at Husky Sport, they have them! :O
 
Did you get your bike back together? Do you think the shift forks could be bent In a garage drop situation? Having just had mine fall off the rearstand and bend the hell out of the shifter tip and stuff the arm into the engine case cover it makes me worry.
 
Just got the rest of the parts to my engine guy yesterday, should have the motor back tomorrow, and of course I won't stop til it's in...

You might be OK, mine was a sliding impact in some hardpack that jammed the shifter upwards pretty hard, not to mention the subsequent low-side on pavement that tore the flimsy Hammerhead shift tip off.

I've got to learn to play nice when the salt and sand trucks have been through recently...
 
Well good to hear yours is going back together. I hope it could handle a garage drop. It hit me first then the handlebar end hit the ground as the were straight, that took a lot of it just surprised at how bent the shifter tip is and how stupid expensive the stock replacement shifter is...
 
The whole shifter or just the tip?

Surely you could beat the stock sheetmetal shift tip back into shape well enough...
 
I did get it back semi into shape, it was pretty well flattened tho. And thats the thing I cant really tell if the whole arm is bent or not, it sort of seems like it is to me. there is a mark in the case behind the shift arm tip where the arm flexed and pushed it into the case. Ive been trying to find pics online to see if it is or not but its hard to tell. Rode it, seems to shift the same, seems like there is more gear whine than there was when decelerating, but you know how it is after you drop a bike, super critical of every noise. Didnt you say you had a hammerhead tip on your shifter? which did you use? Ill just try to stop worrying and ride the damn thing. Funny how I lowside my GSXR racebike at over 50 mph and dont care but i drop this thing in the garage and im like gahh. Prob cuz it has less than a 1000 miles on it...
 
I had the +15 tip, but I wasn't a fan of the profile and how far it stuck away from the bike.
The head was pretty beefy, but the area around the pivot pin is pretty spindly and weak.
They give you a 5/16's steel pivot pin, and there's only two little ~1/8" ribbons of aluminum wrapped around it.
 
So any of the HH tips work it's just about shimming correct? What are the other alternatives? Stock levers are stupid expensive and I can't seem to find anything else available out there. I saw a post where somebody took a driven shifter for a Kim but it looked like quite the pita and didn't sound like he was happy with the results. I got tip bent back mostly to round but its bent up a bit and I'm afraid any more bending its gonna break due to work hardening.
 
Well it's been either hot as blazes or torrential downpours for most of the last month, so I wasn't missing quite as much. It gave me a chance to get a little work done on some of my other projects that I've been putting off to ride...
 
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