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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Skid Plate Options

krussell said:
Finally got some time to mess with the bike. Put it up on my jack, it works just fine.
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According to this link that SW Motech plate is 4mm (0.158") thick. Good to know that you can lift the bike with that thickness, and confirms that the 1/4" Motosportz skid plate that I have should never have a problem when lifting.
http://www.twistedthrottle.com/sw-motech-skidplate-engine-guard-for-husqvarna-tr650-terra-strada-13


EDIT: I see from your smugmug pics that there is a front bracket which the front of the plate is attached - no wonder you have no problems lifting the bike with that plate, because the plate is not really supporting the bike, the heavy duty brackets are:

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blaine - could you put a link to that for sale item in the classifieds?


Not sure how many times I have to explain this, but this is what happens:
  • people that discuss selling in these public threads have that information archived in the search engines forever
  • other people will find for sale discussions years from now via search engines, and they will click on the 'Contact Us' link which will send me an email - cause that is what they think they should do. (people never read, they skim, and most do not notice the date of the information)
  • dealing with things like that takes time, which I do not have. But I do my best to help them - because that is one of the things (at least in my opinion) makes this site a little different, I really try to help people instead of ignoring requests.
If you people want to help, you could do something like this:
"if anyone is interested in a Motosportz skid plate, here is a link to my ad in the classifieds:
www.cafehusky.com/linklink"

That way, when people click on that link, they will get an error - exactly the same as if they clicked on an old expired craigs list ad - then they will not bother me.
 
Rugged, your bike look cool. :thumbsup:

Our blast shields are done. Look similar to above but more coverage. Going to anodize them black. If someone wants silver let me know today if possible. Or better yet I'll just hold some out of the batch. Pictures tonight.
 
It is a vinyl wrap job....great thing about it is if you ever get tired of it, just peel it off and the finish underneath is still brand new :thumbsup:

If I can ever stop riding the TR, I am wraping all of my white plastics in "3D carbon fiber" vinyl. Looks VERY much like the real deal.

It is pretty inexpensive if you DIY, but takes a lot of patience. Vinyl shop quoted me $90 in materials, $220 total if they install.
 
I cannot begin to express how much I like my Motosportz skid plate.

Put the standard bike stand under the bike, press down with my foot, lift it up, and I can work on the TR650 just like my other bikes :)

Sadly I cannot find a picture at the moment.
 
bluegopher said:
Just got off the phone with Twisted Throttle. SW Motech crash bars and skid plate on the way. Actually have to wait a month for the crash bars though. Back ordered. Shipping Aug 1. After goofing around on the trails today I decided these items are a definite necessity. I'm going to come off this bike sooner or later and figured it needs to be protected.
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Skid plate went on easy peasy with just a little tweak on the rear mount so it would fit around the spacers. I have to say I really like it and it's quite beefy. So I took the Terra out over the weekend and this evening after work on some trails where I could thrash it a little and man is this bike sweet! I love it more and more and more every time I ride it. I have to get some more aggressive tires on it but it sure is fun ripping around on the stock Saharas trying to keep them hooked up. Now I'm just waiting on the crash bars and a few other farkly items.image.jpg
 
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