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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

  • 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     TE = 2st Enduro & TC = 2st Cross

TE/TC TE300 handlebar width

Old school way is to do push ups and when you get your hands in the most comfortable position then measure the width and cut your bars to that. I've run narrow for the woods but went back to wide for easier cornering and moving the bike around in the air. In other words there is no set "good" width just cut them how you like them.
 
Yes i realize its all personal ergos but just wanted to hear feed back. Windham width? Whats this?
 
I cut my OEM bars down to 30" to fit between the trees on the tight single track here. Otherwise I'd need to stop and swim the bike through wasting time and energy. The controls fit fine at 30 but if you go shorter, you may have issues with your lever mounts hitting the bend. It depends on the brand and sweep you run.
 
reveille said:
I cut my OEM bars down to 30" to fit between the trees on the tight single track here. Otherwise I'd need to stop and swim the bike through wasting time and energy. The controls fit fine at 30 but if you go shorter, you may have issues with your lever mounts hitting the bend. It depends on the brand and sweep you run.
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Same here, except I cut off 1" from each end of the oem bars which = 29 1/2" and throttle side is cramped for space, but ok. Add handguards and you're back to @ 31" :rolleyes:
 
I use Pastrana bend bars and leave them full width mounted on top of a sub bar BRP steering dampener mount. I had narrow bars a few years back and they were better for the tight trees but not so good for other things as I mention above. Once your brain learns your bar width you will compensate for the trees without having to think about it. I should add that I'm 6'6" tall with a 6'9" arm span so it's doubtful you will like what I like.
 
My shoulders are wider than 32" so why have bars that are 30? If you have skill you can go thru thin trees pretty fast without trimming bars...
 
I run Flexx bars and use Mini Bike 29" bars. It's not about being narrow to fit through trees, it's about what fits me. I actually used to run 27.5" bars in the old days. I've run wider bars and they don't give me more leverage, just feel uncomfortable to me. If you want more leverage on the bike, start using your feet on the pegs and knees against the shrouds.
 
I agree, it's not only about seeming to fit through narrow places easier, it's basic ergos. I've always liked my bars a little narrow, I just got a set of Tag Mini-High bars to hopefully open up the cockpit of the tiddler a little.
 
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