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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Terra Tool Tube

SnackAZ

SnackAZ

Husqvarna
AA Class
Here is my solution for adding a Tool Tube on my Terra. The Tool Tube came from Twisted Throttle and the side racks are very tough BR-Moto units. My goal was to have the tool tube tucked under the rack as much as possible while maintaining the same up-angled alignment as the beautiful TR650 muffler. It's easy to access, clears the swing-arm/brake unit, and fairly well-protected in a fall.

I used 1 1/4" x 3/16" aluminum bar stock for the bracket and a lap-joint exhaust clamp for hanging the tube. I chose not to use the integrated mounting brackets and just ground/sanded them away.
The end result you can see for yourself. Clean install, very sturdy, and doesn't interfere with my Wolfman "hoops" bags, Expedition saddle bags, or side-mount Rotopax plate.

And, yes, I will make another unit to match on the other side.
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I have a couple of those tool tubes which I had attached to my other bike. I did go on a long ride with a 1 litre fuel container in one tube, and after about 2500km the lid had come off and I had lost my fuel.
By the way, Twisted Throttle sell them with TT branding, but you can buy them from any farm machinery place like John Deere. The manufacturer actually makes them for waterproof storage of operator manuals on farm machinery and you can buy them for about a third of the TT price.
 
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