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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Strada - My Way Part II

Jughead

Jughead

Husqvarna
AA Class
Phase I involved getting the bike to fit me.

http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/strada-my-way.32867/#post-308431

Phase II is all about adding the little touches that make the bike yours.

I've had a set of BMW gauges sitting on the shelf for years just waiting for the right bike to mount them to. I REALLY like having an analog clock (the digital is too hard to read) and having a voltmeter is a plus.

I set-up the dash to have a switched 12v Hella outlet that I can use for accessories and/or for charging the battery. The other switch simply turns the illumination for the gauges on and off.


The stock horn is pitiful and I like having LOUD horns when I need them. I bought a pair of the Hi/Low note Fiamms (130 dB). The front one mounts using the stock bracket. I made a bracket to mount the second horn that attaches to the rear foot peg/luggage mount. I mounted the relay inside the body work.



This pretty well gets the bike to where I want it for the rest of the riding season. There is a Phase III planned (center stand and front fender), but that will have to wait for winter.
 
Nice Dash piece. The clipons really open up the area quite well. How did you run the cable for the 12v outlet? From the rider position pic it looks like it goes into the head stem, but the side pic it looks higher?
 
Awesome work, very tidy. Did you machine up the dash yourself? Looks pro. Way better than any hacksaw job I'd be able to achieve in my shed
 
I was a machinist by trade for many years but have long since lost access to the shop equipment. I did manufacture the dash using a band saw and a drill press. For the slots I drilled a "start" and a "finish" hole. I then used a rotary file in the drill press and took very light cuts (maybe .015) and pushed it through by hand. I sure do miss having a milling machine for my govi jobs!
 
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