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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
that picture makes me glad we bought the ones from sw-moto.
are they kidding? at first i was thinking it was a joke--like, something where they're syaing "screw you, stop complaining"
maybe i'm being too girly, but that's just butt-ugly.
I just checked the calender. Sadly, it is not April 1st.
Darn it TE250Guy, I wish I had seen your post before I put my brain into gear. Your 'fix' wouldn't have cut into my beer drinking time so much. I went with a link between the upper motor mount and the lower hole in the Altrider bracket. That and M10 bolts instead of the supplied hardware put everything where I wanted it.
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I just spit beer everywhere when I saw that pic.
My wife is going to be pissed.
Agree completely. Or Dangslow should fab a bunch and sell them for 15 bucks a pop. I'm a buyer at that price. I wonder if he can do them in the same high quality stainless as the super special alt rider clamp? Probably not. ;-)What they should be doing is making up straps like Danslow's, with a spacer to install on the engine mount bolt for if you don't have a bash plate. One for either side. Surely that wouldn't cost them that much to add to the new bars and send out to all the unhappy customers? A pipe clamp is a quick and dirty interim trail fix, not an engineered, long term solution
The crash bars will now utilize a high quality stainless steel hose clamp to connect the lower bolt to the frame. The stainless steel hose clamps were specifically chosen to maintain the strength and weather resistance of the crash bar system.
or fabricate a tube held in place with the bolt that has a latch that hooks into frame that prevents it from rising, and send it out to everyone that ordered this product.
i don't think it's that tough of a room.
i mean, if i had these bars and soembody told me that i needed to put a crappy redneck hose clamp on them to keep them in place, i'd be demanding a refund. ESPECIALLY after the total screwups they were with the delivery of these things in the first place.