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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Simple Green, Simply The Best!

Coffee said:
Guess I don't really understand what the 'drain pan' is for? Assuming the stuff will not hurt the driveway / yard, then why not use a rag or newspaper instead of having to have (and store) the extremely large plastic thingamajig?
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I just buy the chemicals. The palstic thingamajig is something that they sell separately, old news paper works just fine.
 
Zomby woof said:
I use purple power to clean cylinder heads that I rebuild, and tried it once on a bike. That stuff is nasty. Maybe diluted (by a lot) it's ok, but it will definitely etch aluminum, and left permanent marks on my swing arm.
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thats was my findings too. Found Simple green strong enough but not to strong.
 
Nobody wastes more time cleaning than me. I can say as fact, MEAN GREEN works better than Simple Green, and is far cheaper. $5 per gallon. Trust me. Thank me later.
 
Coffee said:
I've tried using it on my bike before, but did not think it was significantly better than Dawn dishwashing liquid...

However this year it has come to my attention that Simple Green is about the only cleaner I have ever tried that will remove tree sap from my hands.
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Try pork fat next time!
 
I used simple green for many years. I did have some etching of aluminum if left to soak for too long. This year I tried Shout. cleans just as good as Simple Green IMO, is cheaper, smells good and no etching!
 
firffighter said:
I used simple green for many years. I did have some etching of aluminum if left to soak for too long. This year I tried Shout. cleans just as good as Simple Green IMO, is cheaper, smells good and no etching!
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Shout is probably the best (non mortorcycle specific) cleaner that I've used.
 
rocko said:
They still offer it because I just bought some :D
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Cycle Gear has many items that don't show on their website. But even more items on the website that are not stocked in the stores. Really strange almost like two different companies. I only shop there to get something today that I need today so always call in advance to make sure it's in stock. Then when you're there walk the aisles good so you know whats available on a Sunday or Monday when every other m/c shop or dealer is closed. Often online sale prices are not shown in the stores also and you need to have them verify to get the lower price. More than a few times I've picked something off the shelf and get surprised to find price rung up at register is only approx half of stickered price.
 
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