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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TR650 Crash bars

jdosher said:
I bought the Alt Rider TR650 crashbars last week (before reading this thread). Horrible, horrible design. My main issue was how they interfered with the ergonomics of the bike. My knees and the bars want to occupy the same space. One of them had to go. Yeah, it's great that they "follow the lines of the bike", but I don't give a hoot about that when I'm slid up on the front of the seat, trying to grip the tank, and the bars are digging into the side of my knee bones. Then it came time to take them off, and I thought "hey, I totally torqued these clamp bolts to spec - what's going on here? The bolts are loose!?" Then I realized the clamps had slid up the frame. Anyway, that's no new information to this thread, but I wanted to point out for prospective buyers that unless you're 5'2" you may find that the bars interfere with your body position.
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+1

They interfered with my knees too...
 
It has been a week now, no response.
Whoever handles the online aspect for Altrider has been active every day on CH, but has yet to respond to this. Has anyone received any contact from them at all regarding this issue?
Coffee, have they gotten back with you yet?

Here are the possibilities:
1. They will eventually acknowledge the concern being raised by members on here, and say the late response is due to them being loaded down with business or the CEO/president being on vacation.
2. Altrider is currently developing a new solution to this issue currently and waiting until it is finalized and say that the hose clamp was a temporary fix.
3. Or Altrider will continue to ignore this dilemma and hope that it eventually gets forgotten.

Whichever of these options it is, there still should be some response from Altrider at least acknowledging the customer's concerns. Even if it is 'Too bad'.
This silence is not a good sign.
 
RuggedExposure said:
Whichever of these options it is, there still should be some response from Altrider at least acknowledging the customer's concerns. Even if it is 'Too bad'.
This silence is not a good sign.
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They are just trying to copy the business practices of one of the greatest companies in the world right now, Apple.
 
RuggedExposure said:
It has been a week now, no response.
Whoever handles the online aspect for Altrider has been active every day on CH, but has yet to respond to this. Has anyone received any contact from them at all regarding this issue?
Coffee, have they gotten back with you yet?

Here are the possibilities:
1. They will eventually acknowledge the concern being raised by members on here, and say the late response is due to them being loaded down with business or the CEO/president being on vacation.
2. Altrider is currently developing a new solution to this issue currently and waiting until it is finalized and say that the hose clamp was a temporary fix.
3. Or Altrider will continue to ignore this dilemma and hope that it eventually gets forgotten.

Whichever of these options it is, there still should be some response from Altrider at least acknowledging the customer's concerns. Even if it is 'Too bad'.
This silence is not a good sign.
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Just wait. Coffee can do something. I'm sure of it.
 
Coffee said:
Please give me some time.
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Much work has been done.

No I really do not want to get into more details at the moment. Hopefully next week more can be said.

EDIT: I heavily edited this post, and a few other posts, so I do not get contacted in the future about something that no longer exists.
 
Coffee said:
Much work has been done.

No I really do not want to get into more details at the moment. Hopefully next week more can be said.
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I am in Connecticut, have alt rider crash bars installed which have crept up. Can install quickly.
Let me know if I can help...
 
Dinosan said:
I am in Connecticut, have alt rider crash bars installed which have crept up. Can install quickly.
Let me know if I can help...
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OK, lets give it a couple of hours to see who else can help (shipping east of the Mississippi adds another day for the shipping method I am using)... still writing the install instructions.
 
Coffee said:
OK, lets give it a couple of hours to see who else can help (shipping east of the Mississippi adds another day for the shipping method I am using)... still writing the install instructions.
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In Kansas - have the alt rider bars and would be glad to help.

Jim
 
Is this solution thru Altrider? I work a couple miles down the way from them. Either way, I'd be glad to help - in Tacoma, Washington.
- Ryan
 
Wizard said:
In Kansas - have the alt rider bars and would be glad to help.

Jim
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OK, you have the other one.

I have all the help/people I need. As I stated before, more information will be available next week.

EDIT: I edited some posts that were made in the last few hours, so I am not contacted in the future about something that no longer exists.
 
Don't worry, it was not specified. But i have a lurking suspicion it involved bailing wire, scotch tape and VHS copy of a Macgyver episode.

I was considering crash bars, but depending on the outcome of this, i may end up building my own.
 
There is a very easy, effective, and strong solution that will stop the creep up the slightly tapered front brace. Lay a small weld bead on each side flange of the Husky brace above the AltRider bracket to act as a stop to upward movement. Just the brace, not the AltRider bracket. For folks like RE, this is a 5 minute job. Drilling a hole in the brace flange and using a fastener as a stop would also work.

Adding a stop will be a permanent fix that will look good and be strong and you wouldn't need to wait for a better factory fix. The crash bars are definitely worth the effort.
 
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