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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TERRAFORMERS

Here is the new bar and riser set up. I am in a nice comfortable position standing now. I will do the finishing touches on the risers after I ride the bike on Wednsday so if I can machine them lower if I feel they are too tall. I think I will just buff them out a little and clear coat them instead of painting them black or having them powder coated.

You can see the blemishes (release wax stuck in air pockets up top) in the carbon fiber rally screen pretty well in this shot. At least the blemishes are on the inside. This one is going on my buddies Terra in Palmer Lake and he can finish it if he wishes or just leave it. He is more than happy to take my practice parts! He buys me tooling for my efforts. I learned a lot from the first one and the hardest part of making the mold is already done.

I am still waiting for my tubing to make the crash bars. I called them today and they said they haven't gotten the order out and promised it would be out today.

The bike is naked so I can go through it and look for loose fasteners, wire chafing, or anything else that might cause a problem out in the middle of nowhere. Just because its a new bike doesn't mean it's good to go. I have found one problem already with the fuel pump wiring and will list everything I find.
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FabOneUp said:
Here is the new bar and riser set up. I am in a nice comfortable position standing now. I will do the finishing touches on the risers after I ride the bike on Wednsday so if I can machine them lower if I feel they are too tall. I think I will just buff them out a little and clear coat them instead of painting them black or having them powder coated.

You can see the blemishes (release wax stuck in air pockets up top) in the carbon fiber rally screen pretty well in this shot. At least the blemishes are on the inside. This one is going on my buddies Terra in Palmer Lake and he can finish it if he wishes or just leave it. He is more than happy to take my practice parts! He buys me tooling for my efforts. I learned a lot from the first one and the hardest part of making the mold is already done.

I am still waiting for my tubing to make the crash bars. I called them today and they said they haven't gotten the order out and promised it would be out today.

The bike is naked so I can go through it and look for loose fasteners, wire chafing, or anything else that might cause a problem out in the middle of nowhere. Just because its a new bike doesn't mean it's good to go. I have found one problem already with the fuel pump wiring and will list everything I find.
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Lookin' killer Fab! You can put me down for a windscreen if you decide to make a couple extra...:D Can't wait to see the crash bars you come up with. :cheers:
 
HARDER1 said:
Lookin' killer Fab! You can put me down for a windscreen if you decide to make a couple extra...:D Can't wait to see the crash bars you come up with. :cheers:
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You thought that B & B skid plate was expensive......:D. Have you gotten a chance to thrash it around a bit and test those cold welds and skidder?
 
FabOneUp said:
You thought that B & B skid plate was expensive......:D. Have you gotten a chance to thrash it around a bit and test those cold welds and skidder?
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Yeah, I put a couple hundred miles on it this over the weekend. Mostly road - went to my dealer and plugged into the MOSS tool. It made a big difference off the bottom and idle. Haven't done any major hits, but enough to believe that the welds will actually work - until I eat sh*t again! And the skid plate is bad ass. I ordered the lower black shrouds and husky logos and they were only $19 a side! At that price, I can afford some more crashes.:thumbsup:
 
HARDER1 said:
Yeah, I put a couple hundred miles on it this over the weekend. Mostly road - went to my dealer and plugged into the MOSS tool. It made a big difference off the bottom and idle. Haven't done any major hits, but enough to believe that the welds will actually work - until I eat sh*t again! And the skid plate is bad ass. I ordered the lower black shrouds and husky logos and they were only $19 a side! At that price, I can afford some more crashes.:thumbsup:
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$19...Hecks ya!
 
while you're on the screen, is there a way to put a bracket to mount GPS ABOVE the instrument cluster ? Special plate using windshield mounts ? Something like TT does for G650GS ?

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I was thinking about two aluminum dowels that go from the front of the riser to the windscreen. They would need to be shaped in a semi circle so you don't block the view of the instrument panel. Then a crossbar to connect them near the top to mount the GPS to. I have the room to do this because of the larger screen and it is also kicked forward. I will look at it again when I get back home.

Let me know what you are thinking mario33 if you have a better idea. I will pull up the Touratech part also when I get home. From what I can see it is pretty nice, but I just don't think we have a place to support to up front. Like I said, I will look again when I get back home in a few hours.
 
Ok, I did look at everything a little better mario33. It looks like that TT solution is a good one if the assembly can handle the extra stress and it would probably be easier for everyone to make. My above idea isn't a good one because the whole screen/headlight/instrument assembly is all on isolaters. I would most likely break my windscreen from all the flex. I might tackle this tonight or tomorrow while we are on the subject. Still waiting for my tubing anyway.
 
Love the rear racks guys. Only suggestion I have is to swap out the bolts at the seat with buttons or cap screws. Buttons are nice and smooth or cap screws you can add vacuum covers to stay from injury. :)

Fab - you can mount a Scotts stabilizer under those monstrous clamps you have.

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Tinken said:
Love the rear racks guys. Only suggestion I have is to swap out the bolts at the seat with buttons or cap screws. Buttons are nice and smooth or cap screws you can add vacuum covers to stay from injury. :)

Fab - you can mount a Scotts stabilizer under those monstrous clamps you have.

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We were very lucky to find these locally. I am not so concerned about those, but I am about the riser bolts. I need four zinc coated socket head bolts 8mm x 1.25 x 90mm. I would prefer at least class 10.9. Do you have any? Everywhere I look, they want me to buy large quantity.

I don't know if a steering stabilizer is in my future. I have never ridden with one, so I don't know what I'm missing.. I did seriously consider Flexx bars though.

Please let me know on the bolts Tinken. Thanks, and thanks for the kudos!
 
Screen #2. This one will have the GPS mount built in and reinforcement for the extra top weight. I originally wanted to do this, so I'm back on track. This is the cleanest way I can come up with to put the GPS exactly where I want it. I think the whole headlight/instrument assembly (what the heck should we call that...a fairing?) will hold up fine. It is also isolated, so the GPS will take less abuse.
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FabOneUp said:
Screen #2. This one will have the GPS mount built in and reinforcement for the extra top weight. I originally wanted to do this, so I'm back on track. This is the cleanest way I can come up with to put the GPS exactly where I want it. I think the whole headlight/instrument assembly (what the heck should we call that...a fairing?) will hold up fine. It is also isolated, so the GPS will take less abuse.
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I really hope your making extras for us to purchase.:cheers:
 
Hey Fab one, could you make some folding highway bars as well? I plan to be doing some serious trans continental touring this year.


Thanks
 
Terramack said:
I really hope your making extras for us to purchase.:cheers:
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Motosportz said:
yes please.
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kjackbrown said:
X3
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Terramack said:
Hey Fab one, could you make some folding highway bars as well? I plan to be doing some serious trans continental touring this year. Thanks
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Let me think about this. Are you guys liking the basic screens or wanting them with GPS mounts integrated? I have gotten PM's on this stuff as well, so it is something I will consider. Welding something together is one thing, but carbon fiber work is something I only dabble in. These would be expensive, so I would want to turn out a professional product.
 
FabOneUp said:
Let me think about this. Are you guys liking the basic screens or wanting them with GPS mounts integrated? I have gotten PM's on this stuff as well, so it is something I will consider. Welding something together is one thing, but carbon fiber work is something I only dabble in. These would be expensive, so I would want to turn out a professional product.
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I like the tall carbon screen look for sure. I have a Zumo665 and Touratech mount. Yes if you could make a tamper proof frame that would be ideal. it would be nice to have the GPS in the sight line.
If not i will bolt it to the crossbar of my new bars.
Price guestimate?

Thanks and cheers
 
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