• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

kjackbrown said:
We rode for an hour the other day and she was complaining about her butt and knees being sore.


I am going to buy an SC seat for the TR in hopes that will remedy the sore butt thing...I wonder if their gripper top material will keep her planted enough to not have to keep pushing off me like you had stated.

Thank you VERY MUCH for your input Mrs. Fab :cheers:

Kev.
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Bit the bullet and placed my order with Seat Concepts...Carbon fiber/Gripper top, with RED STITCHING****************************************
 
While all y'all are making racks for hard cases not everyone will be running those. I have some soft side bags that I don't need a frame for, but the dang bags sit against the pipe below the plastic shield. Necessity is the mother of invention... while not as fancy as some of the other fab work going on, I did come up with a simple heat shield from some scrap steel I had laying around. I cut a rectangle that I then rolled into a half cylinder with a diameter of 5.5 inches. Since the Terra mufflers are flat sided, I get a nice little airgap on the side. I drilled some holes in the top of my steel cylinder to use the mounting torx of the plastic heat shields, and then cut two slots parallel to bottom edge about a half inch in the edge. I slipped a Stainless hose clamp through the slot and around pipe. Used a bit of wadded up header wrap to pad the and separate the new steel half cylinder from the bottom of the muffler. Now I got me some big gun exhausts. The bags will probably rub the high temp paint I used, but at least they won't melt...I hope:)

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Hey if the front is open like I think it is. Allowing air flow. It should work very well. As long as the bags aren't too heavy to bend the shield.

Ingenuity at it's best.:thumbsup:
 
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BigJim said:
and then cut two slots parallel to bottom edge about a half inch in the edge. I slipped a Stainless hose clamp through the slot and around pipe.
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First, really ingenious!! Great solution to a problem many of us are having!

Second, got any pics of that bottom securement?!?
 
I don't think they will fold. I can hit hit 'em hard with my hip. They are pretty stout and solid considering it's hose clamps holding them in place. Maybe they will torque around and come up tight against the pipe if I drop the bike, but if they do, I can loosen the clamps and spin them back. No worries...I think. Here's the mount details. Don't know how long my little wads of header wrap will last, but I thought I needed something to separate the sheet metal heat shield from the body of the muffler.
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BigJim said:
I don't think they will fold. I can hit hit 'em hard with my hip. They are pretty stout and solid considering it's hose clamps holding them in place. Maybe they will torque around and come up tight against the pipe if I drop the bike, but if they do, I can loosen the clamps and spin them back. No worries...I think. Here's the mount details. Don't know how long my little wads of header wrap will last, but I thought I needed something to separate the sheet metal heat shield from the body of the muffler.
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So well done!! Thanks for the pictures!!!
 
Yea those shields look great. I have been thinking alot about using soft bags on this bike and the rack required. It would seem that the lateral force (toward the muffler) would be pretty small if you set them up correctly. plus the mufflers seem to be pretty rigid by their bolt pattern. I was thinking of just making a steel ring that would slip over the muffler and use the same bolt but be strong enough to hold up a shield like that. In other words remake the mount to the muffler to where it incorporated a strong steel ring around the muffler. This may be a really slick lightweight solution
 
BigJim said:
While all y'all are making racks for hard cases not everyone will be running those. I have some soft side bags that I don't need a frame for, but the dang bags sit against the pipe below the plastic shield. Necessity is the mother of invention... while not as fancy as some of the other fab work going on, I did come up with a simple heat shield from some scrap steel I had laying around. I cut a rectangle that I then rolled into a half cylinder with a diameter of 5.5 inches. Since the Terra mufflers are flat sided, I get a nice little airgap on the side. I drilled some holes in the top of my steel cylinder to use the mounting torx of the plastic heat shields, and then cut two slots parallel to bottom edge about a half inch in the edge. I slipped a Stainless hose clamp through the slot and around pipe. Used a bit of wadded up header wrap to pad the and separate the new steel half cylinder from the bottom of the muffler. Now I got me some big gun exhausts. The bags will probably rub the high temp paint I used, but at least they won't melt...I hope:)

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Good stuff, still just millin around about how to keep the bags off the HOTT mufflers, and they get friggin hot. Not into re-engeneering the wheel, got me thinking about weight, mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
 
Finally got my racks all done. Consider this the Executive Summary….you can get the nitty gritty details in my ADV - Stupid Questions Thread.

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I know…..should have been some music in the background. Call me lazy.

Super Thanks again to Fab1 :cheers: for making these fantastic steel bushings to get me started:

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I promised him I would post up some photos here, when I got-R-done.

Its done. Hip-hip-hooray! :banana:

HF :thumbsup:
 
Looks good RE. Are the mounting brackets for the model 60s the ones that come with them or did you have to come up with something else? I have the same handguard setup and have been wondering about that mounting.
 
spiderman said:
Looks good RE. Are the mounting brackets for the model 60s the ones that come with them or did you have to come up with something else? I have the same handguard setup and have been wondering about that mounting.
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They are the 'standard' brackets that came with the lights. Not sure what the heavy duty ones look like, but they might be worth the money.
 
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