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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Show us your TR650 ready to CAMP!

tm250 112.jpg Heres one we built .TRS 650 with Heidenau tires,Husky bags and rack,Leo Vince exhaust with USFS spark arrestors.Looks and sounds great ,the owner did put a booster plug on it also. This is $8645 OTD package.Hes still deciding on wich windshield.[
 

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cbxtc6 said:
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that's a big tank bag what kind is it? how is it held on?
 
BILLF said:
View attachment 30445 Heres one we built .TRS 650 with Heidenau tires,Husky bags and rack,Leo Vince exhaust with USFS spark arrestors.Looks and sounds great ,the owner did put a booster plug on it also. This is $8645 OTD package.Hes still deciding on wich windshield.[
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that's bad ass. the cases look a little big for trail riding,but do they can come easily?
 
Thehowell71 said:
Thanks Bill. Picked it up yesterday. Can't say enough about the high level of service at Bill's Husky. The bike looks and sounds mean.
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krider59 said:
that's bad ass. the cases look a little big for trail riding,but do they can come easily?
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Thanks I didn't say whos bike it was just in case ,sometimes significant others don't actually know about it until its in the garage and the?? honey is that a new bike?
That's the one great thing about owning a bike shop ,Mrs billf has no clue most of the time {all of} whats in my stall.Not everyone can be so lucky.
 
BILLF said:
Thanks I didn't say whos bike it was just in case ,sometimes significant others don't actually know about it until its in the garage and the?? honey is that a new bike?
That's the one great thing about owning a bike shop ,Mrs billf has no clue most of the time {all of} whats in my stall.Not everyone can be so lucky.
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Thanks Bill. This purchase was cleared by the ministry of finance.

What's the saying: "bros before significant others"? I think that's it.
 
Friend (DRZ400 SM(!)) and Me (Strada) hit up Harrison Lake in BC a few weeks ago. We set up camp about 35 km up the logging road on the west side of the lake.

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The Factory bags look the business! I want to buy some for Christmas but I doubt they will be available. Any one have side panniers close to the look of the factory ones?
 
Not a great pic of the set up but the best one I have before removing the side bags. I sold my Ortlieb soft bags once I got the factory Husky (Givi) hard bags and regretted not having a set of soft bags. I saw a pic on ADVrider of a guy who had attached ALICE packs to his bike. The local military surplus store had these used bags for $10 each and while they aren't aren't waterproof I already had a few cheap dry stuff sacks. There are lots of straps on the bags and I had to do no modifications to them to mount them to my existing side racks.
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Riding Again said:
The Factory bags look the business! I want to buy some for Christmas but I doubt they will be available. Any one have side panniers close to the look of the factory ones?
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I'm in agreement with the OP about soft bags.

My plan is to use the factory racks for two 1 gallon RotoPax and then soft bags over top of the fuel.

The hard cases are nice. They are as mentioned, Givi Trekker bags. Although when I called Givi USA for spare parts they swore up and down they weren't made by Givi...

I'll still use them for road trips but for off roading and especially creek crossings, I'd rather have soft bags to absorb any possible impacts.

One particularly deep crossing at Akers Ferry in Mark Twain National Forest...



It hit 3'-3.5' deep and the current on the right bag acted like a sheet of plywood in the wind. It spun me 180 degrees pretty quickly. Definitely an "Oh sh*t" moment as I thought I was going swimming with Strada.
 
DanD said:
The hard cases are nice. They are as mentioned, Givi Trekker bags. Although when I called Givi USA for spare parts they swore up and down they weren't made by Givi...
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I can confirm they are Givi. I low sided last year and damaged one of the factory hard bags. I was able to order new parts from Givi. Not cheap. You can't get the outside plate with the husky logo, though.
 
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