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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
In some ways, I like the idea of the portion of the bar that hits the ground the hardest not being directly mounted to the frame. That way the bar should spring a bit and not bend the frame.I think tube steel is stronger than you think.
I think tube steel is stronger than you think.
In some ways, I like the idea of the portion of the bar that hits the ground the hardest not being directly mounted to the frame. That way the bar should spring a bit and not bend the frame.
Maybe.
I've seen the Altrider prototype in person and It is plenty strong. There's a lot of subtle precision in their design. The welds, cuts, bends etc are top shelf.
I am enjoying this conversation, but think that there really is no way to truly evaluate these types of products until some are in the hands of TR650 owners.
Yeah, but we love speculating around here. Without it, we'd have nothing to do. I might be willing to tip my bike over in the name of science when the bars arrive.![]()
This might be useful - but the pictures look like the bar is pretty close to the fairing.
On the SW-Motech bars I like the crossmember but there is a piece of flat stock connecting the to the frame above the engine, this would bend easily. It seems like the ALTrider connection there is stronger.
I would need several beers in me first!
I see your point, but looks like there is a bit of room for a bit of flex. Pluse, the plastic isn't going to break (hopefully) if the bar deflects into it a bit. Going for too rigid is often as bad as too weak. Forces have to go somewhere, afterall. I would rather the bars be sacrificial than the frame.
I am torn between the better radiator coverage of the Altrider bars v. the x-bar on the SW-Motech bars. Also, I will want to mount some lights to the bars, so maybe getting a light/x-bar welded between the Altrider bars would work.
Very nice! Thank you for sharing
I'm having trouble visualizing how this would be used. Pic somewhere?