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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Tail Tidy Install Problems

Motosportz said:
here is how I "Fixed" mine :D

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That will quite probably work until the OEM plastic rack breaks off. I've ridden my TR650 enough off road to decide for myself that it is a question of 'when', not 'if'.
 
i fitted my tidy tail, some holes didn't line up and the tailight bracket was missing so I had to fab one. Now I am stuck with a taillight comes on but no brake light!! I have checked the wiring and checked the brake switches. Anyone have any Ideas I don't want to take it to the dealer as they are very slow, i.e. buddies computer shorted out and it took them 5 months after he received a loaner, to get a replacement.
 
Fixed. Rear brake lever wasn't contacting the brake switch enough to close the circuit. Guess when she took a nap in Stoddard Wells it may have been bent a bit.
 
scotty said:
Abby

Stick with it, I fitted mine a few months ago its a real pita to fit
but with some bending and a bit of patience it does fit and looks
fine. I got my dealer to call R+G direct to warn them that they
would have to alter their jig we were told I was the only one that
had complained. I have fitted lots of R+G stuff to various bikes
and never had a problem but they have got this one way wrong.

Scotty
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So this is basically a really old/dead thread, but did you have to modify the plastics on your bike at all for them to fit around the Tail Tidy? Mine bolted right onto the sub-frame very easily, and the light even sits in pretty straight, unlike what some people have said.

Basically the two white tail plastic pieces and the security system cover wont go back on with the tail tidy in, leaving electronics exposed... which is pretty much unacceptable. Did you bit the bullet and modify the plastics? I'm waiting for an OEM fender to come in and would prefer to just modify it so it doesn't brake again than modify a bunch of plastics for a poorly designed fender eliminator.
 
It's two years later and I would really like to know if this guys still has his taillight installed upside down.
 
Abby said:
We got one for my bike and Brother#1 tried to install it for an hour, got pissed off, and handed it over to Brother#2.
Brother #2 tried to install it for 30 mins, got pissed off, and handed it over to Dad.

Dad looked at it for 5 minutes and said "This thing doesn't fit your bike. Send it back."
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I tried the Tail Tidy and ended up with "Dad's" suggestion and sent it back.

I bought it from Twisted Throttle and they did point out that it's designed for the Strada and I believe the 2 bikes are not the same in this area so it DOES NOT fit a Terra... at least worth a damn.

I also found the basic engineering far from acceptable in terms of how stuff was supposed to be mounted up.

I did a full boat reinforcement of the stock setup once mine broke instead.



 
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