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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Tank Bags

Sorry for resurrecting this old thread, but I thought I'd share another tank bag option.
I had a Famsa Enduro-Max Touring lying around that I used on my Tenere which looked like it would also fit the Terra So I decided to just try it out.
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The bag is a roomy 13L and expands to 19L if desired. It has a built-in map pocket, but I use an additional map pocket from SW Motech as that nicely fits a map with 2 "fold bands" showing. The bag zips off the base plate which has a hole for the fuel cap. The base plate is made for the more domed fuel tank of the Tenere, but fits well enough on the TR.
The straps towards the rear subframe are designed for thicker frame tubes though, so the velcroed leather straps don't work well. I couldn't be bothered with getting out the sowing kit, I just cut them off and replaced them with some tie wraps.
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It's a pretty big bag and the side pockets stick out a bit just above my leg, but it doesn't interfere with my riding. Standing up I am closer to the bag, really touching it, especially when working my weight in the corners, but it doesn't bother me.
 
What really is needed is a tank bag with possibly attachable front panniers that stay forward of knees. Perhaps with attachment points to any guards. I gotta Gert a serious sewing machine and start my own business. Reckon it would be fun.
 
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