• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

RuggedExposure said:
Vinyl wrapped the Terra:

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Can this be the new official bike of the US army?
 
Highfive said:
Finally got my racks all done.

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:
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Well done HF! Glad I could help.
 
Kenneth, Beautiful work, I know I speak for a lot of 650 owners out there. I'm sorry to jump out of the thread topic so far - bare with me I'm just getting started but, where did you get your fat bar mounts. I'm headed down to the machinist in the morning to bore out the OEM 7/8' champs but I like yours with the single top plate. Thanks, Ken
 
Hey Ken, Thank you again for sharing with us. I just noticed you have upgraded your shift lever, gotta have one. Aftermarket or just something you knocked out in your spare time? I hope to reciprocate your generosity in the near future. I am working on cleaning up the fuel curve and exhaust note on my Strata. It's getting hot down here in FL and the lean fuel fixture is cooking my legs. I have a power commander five coming next week and I'm getting close to a set of slip -on's that will help with the sewing machine exhaust note and the 15 lbs of catalyst we're carrying around now.
 
Ken Linn said:
Hey Ken, Thank you again for sharing with us. I just noticed you have upgraded your shift lever, gotta have one. Aftermarket or just something you knocked out in your spare time? I hope to reciprocate your generosity in the near future. I am working on cleaning up the fuel curve and exhaust note on my Strata. It's getting hot down here in FL and the lean fuel fixture is cooking my legs. I have a power commander five coming next week and I'm getting close to a set of slip -on's that will help with the sewing machine exhaust note and the 15 lbs of catalyst we're carrying around now.
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More info on the exhaust please!
 
Who did you get your PCV from? DynoJet has been shipping them for a few weeks now but stores like Motorcycle Superstore and Revzilla (both about $100 cheaper tha DJ) dont have them yet.
 
Kenneth Webb said:
Skid plate back from the welder and I am doing a few things to it. Have to drill holes to allow insertion of the lower engine mounting bolt, and probably trim a little at the top for the same reason. I also drilled holes in the right side to allow insertion of my trail stand to allow taking off the front and rear wheel trailside. Note that I did not have the plate welded to the engine mounting lugs as they need to squeeze together when torquing the bolts. It's plenty strong with just the bottom edge welded to the lower plate. We used 1/8" plate for the wings.


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Which model of trail stand is that or did you make it yourself? Can you remove the front wheel with it in that position or did you drill another hole up front?
 
RuggedExposure said:
Which model of trail stand is that or did you make it yourself? Can you remove the front wheel with it in that position or did you drill another hole up front?
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I drilled a hole up front too so that I can remove the front wheel as well. The Terra is heavy, and with the side stand not really locking forward (almost a suicide side stand), before I tried to lift the rear I would use a strap or stront line to tie the side stand forward so that it can't collapse. Not a problem on most bikes, but I don't trust this one. This is not generally an issue when lifting the front wheel for removal. Use your judgment on the rear, and maybe have a second person give you a hand the first time you try it. Like I said, heavy bike!

As to the trail stand, I found it on the WR250 Forum and don't know if they are still made or not. I found the maker recently and forwarded his email to a friend, but I'll need to dig that up again. When I do, I'll post. Meanwhile, there are other trail stand makers, but I like this one a lot. It's all aluminum and has done a great job on all my bikes, and quite a few of my friends too!
 
My latest addition is the small Husky accessory windscreen. I tried a taller screen and it was not quite what I wanted; pushed the air too high for me. The Husky screen, although short and relatively expensive, seems to do just what I need. It pushes the "hole" behind the screen up to my shoulders/neck and leaves my helmet in clear air. It's amazingly effective for such a short screen and I think it's the little lip at the top that does the trick. It won't be for everyone, I know, but it doesn't affect my view forward at all and definitely keeps the blast off of my chest. In a strong cross wind it won't do as well, especially compared to my previous road bike, a BMW R1200RT, but I don't expect it to. All in all, I like!
 
Kenneth Webb said:
It's amazingly effective for such a short screen and I think it's the little lip at the top that does the trick. It won't be for everyone, I know, but it doesn't affect my view forward at all and definitely keeps the blast off of my chest.
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I'm sure the OEM windscreen was air tunnel tested to get just the right angle to accomplish this.:thumbsup:
 
chickabee said:
Did you ever get your seat installed? And how does your wife like it?
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She went from 20 minutes till she compained - to - about an hour now. The problem is there is really not enough perch up there for her to sit on. I am a big guy and apparently I invade a bit of her space. If she had a nother inch or two before her rear makes contact with the rack, she would be fine.

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Ok, I'm at the point where I've got some projects I'd like to get going on, going to see if I can't add to this thread shortly with a top rack.

This is still related to terraformers, so don't take it as a thread jack. What I'm looking at doing for the top rack is using some 1/2" steel tube. Bending and welding it to give a strong base. Using probably some 1/8 solid round to bend into tie points. Then either making my own aluminum or HDPE plate for it, or picking up something that looks reasonable and bolting it to the frame. I'd like to go with probably a smaller pelican style case up there for commuting (most of the time), but I want to build it functional enough to handle week long camping trips.

For the side racks, I'll either make my own from the br-moto parts, or buy the pre-made one. I like the style of it and the price is good, so I'll likely just buy it pre-fabbed and call it good.

With that in mind, there are a couple tools I'll need to pick up:
  1. Bender - I was thinking this http://www.harborfreight.com/bench-top-bar-and-rod-bender-38471.html
  2. Welder - I have access to a MIG I've used quite a bit at my dad's house, but I'd like to get set up in my own shop a bit. I don't have a 230v access in my garage, so I'm looking for a 115v arc (possibly with tig option) setup. Yeah, it's not the best setup, but I can't think of a time I've needed to weld thicker than what one of these can handle. There are several of these out there, and there is a wide range of price (and quality, I assume). HF has an 80 amp inverter arc ($150), Northern tool has their st80i arc ($180) with a tig option for $80 extra, and there is the Thermal Arc 95s stick/tig setup that runs around $450, but includes some needed extras as well.
**To minimize the thread jack, if you've got any recommendations, PM me and I'll just update this post with any recommendations for a terraformer starter setup.
 
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