• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TE250Guy said:
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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I've been thinking about this, and there seems to be 2 issues. First, there's the problem of the bars creeping up during day to day use. The set-screw or the bead of weld would take care of that. What worries me, is what happens in the event of a tip-over. I would be afraid that the brackets may be able to jump over the bead, or set-screw and still manage to damage the exhaust or not fully protect the bike. I think the idea of the bracket that works as a sleeve and hooks into the frame would be the most secure in the event of a crash. (providing it was stout enough) and isn't that why you would put these things on your bike to begin with?

Just my $0.02


--Chris
 
so if youre going to weld a bead, why not just weld them on with like a tiny little weld? then it could break if you crash TOO hard, but hold if it's not a super hard crash.
 
Abby said:
so if youre going to weld a bead, why not just weld them on with like a tiny little weld? then it could break if you crash TOO hard, but hold if it's not a super hard crash.
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I would want my crash bars removable for maintenance. But you could drill through both the AdvRider bracket and the Husky brace and bolt them together. Looks like the flange is wide enough at the bottom to do this.
 
Well I did the hose clamp fix temporarily, which seems to work.. Although it does not appear to be sufficient for a crash situation.. Hoping for a good permanent solution soon, like before a crash....
 
"Is this a fix from Alt...or is it something we have to purchase from someone else?"

And can I get it installed before my trip next weekend?
 
I believe it is a permanent fix from Alt. We should have an official word from them very shortly...
Just have a little more patience.
:cheers:
 
FWIW, I used my Altrider crash bars for their intended purpose: crashing. I took a low speed but focused impact to the left side by a big rock. My radiator would've been toast without them. The bars did creep up and touch the header pipe, but there is no damage to the pipe at all. I too would like to see a better solution to the creeping issue, but it's not as dramatic of an issue as some are making it out to be IMHO. :cheers:
 
My bars have been on for almost 3000 miles, much of it rough, and they have not moved. They would if I went down though. Looking forward to the fix.
 
Mine moved during normal use. Used the hose clamp for a temporary fix. If altrider doesn't come up with a good solution I'll solve it myself this winter.
 
This option is also available now from Happy Trails.

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