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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

RE's top rack thread

Got a little bit of late start because of work, but I got the hard parts done:
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These damn things are the most time consuming and intricate parts, as they have to be lined up on all dimensions:
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Not only are both of the notches rotated 90* from each other, the outside one has a 7.5* offset:
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Got all four arms notched, mounted and tacked:
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And welded:
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Checking for fitment:
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Fairbanksak's rack welded and checking for fitment:
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Bluegohper's rack with Rotopax straps welded and fit on the bike:
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Tomorrow the tie-down hoops get welded on then painted:
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Ok, got a spare moment, and yes it only took a moment, to get RE's rear rack mounted. This thing is built to last and a direct replacement. I'm going to mount some crap to it and see how it takes it but I honestly can't see how it could fail. I have had to use the stock rear rack a couple times as a handle to lift the bike from precarious situations (drops) and have heard it snap, crack. That won't happen with RE's but I'll do what I can to prove it. I just love to ride this Terra like a dirt bike. Probably because I don't have a dirt bike. Anyway here are a couple quick pics. RE I'll let you know how it goes.


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faribanksak got his/mine ON WEDNESDAY!!!
He's busy at this stupid JOB thing he has, so he hasn't mounted mine yet before sending it down to me.

HOLY CRAP I'M EXCITED TO GET IT!
 
Abby said:
faribanksak got his/mine ON WEDNESDAY!!!
He's busy at this stupid JOB thing he has, so he hasn't mounted mine yet before sending it down to me.

HOLY CRAP I'M EXCITED TO GET IT!
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It's definitely worth the wait. You'll like it. Quite the beefy.
 
Dang it... I just realized I've yet to build myself one of these damn racks.

Just when I thought I was done working on this friggin Terra...
 
Awesome to see it mounted up. Glad you put the Rotopax on lengthwise. I plan on running mine turned sideways... whenever I get to building my own rack!
 
I have to say this is one damn fine rack. I got one from RE from his first batch and I've put it through the wringer. I commute to work with it almost every day loaded with about 20 lbs. I've ridden a few hundred miles on single track, two track, FS roads too with plenty of front and rear suspension bottoming landings and it's held up without a whimper. It makes a great, sturdy handle for picking up the bike in awkward situations too. It will probably outlast the bike.

Check over on ADV for more info.
 
RuggedExposure said:
Awesome to see it mounted up. Glad you put the Rotopax on lengthwise. I plan on running mine turned sideways... whenever I get to building my own rack!
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I am now in the process of becoming truly Terrafied. Looking for the best rack system and now focusing more on these beauties cf with other top racks out there.
Are you still making them? If so to order ? And what cost? Would you like some worthless Australian dollars...lol? No hurry and shipping can be thru Suez canal if it is cheaper than usual rates between old allies..
Almost cheaper for me to come over there ,help you make em and fly back with them attached to my back as a medical appliance. Hmm

I saw a comment that they fit the Wolfman side racks well. Whole system sounds great.
 
Probably the best set up out there. Now I'll need to convince the kids that getting a lump of coal for Christmas is virtuous. Wolfman/BR Moto racks just hit Australian shores. Selling for Aus $375.
 
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