• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

I checked in with Altrider on shipping date for their bars. The 26th is the new date. :mad: Cancelled my order. Ordered a set of Motech bars from Twisted Throttle. None in stock but more expected the 14th. I like the idea of the cross bar anyway and a more traditional look.
 
dangslow said:
I checked in with Altrider on shipping date for their bars. The 26th is the new date. :mad: Cancelled my order. Ordered a set of Motech bars from Twisted Throttle. None in stock but more expected the 14th. I like the idea of the cross bar anyway and a more traditional look.
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Just a heads up, the dates from Twisted are ESTIMATES. They make them sound like they are solid, but as soon as they miss them they emphasize they are ESTIMATES. My crash bars were shipped 13 days after the date I was told when I ordered. Hopefully yours and others will be on time or better, but be careful to not get your expectations up again!
 
Good point krussell. I placed my Altrider order Mar. 21st, shortly after they started accepting preorders. After watching several shipping dates come and go I started to get that old "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me" feeling. And is June 26th the last 'adjustment'. Who knows? Anyway, it felt good to pull the plug on that deal. And hey, it helped out all my Café Husky brothers and sisters by moving everyone up in the waiting list.
 
For what it's worth, I'm going to stick with the Altriders. Looking at the SW bars they appear not to protect the bike at the most vulnerable part, the leading edge of plastic on the plastic "tank". I've dropped mine twice off road and the tank is the contact point. The SW's appear to protect the engine and not the plastics. The Altriders will accomplish both based on points of contact.
 
I agree with Kawagumby and Wolftrax about the additional protection provided by the Altrider bars. But I've got trips planned and some protection is better than none. There is a good reason I have the name dangslow. Most of my 'oops' moments are at dangslow speed and I think I can deal with the protection offered by the Motech product. I understand Touratech is working on some crash bars also. Be interesting to see what they come up with.
 
dangslow said:
Looks good William42. However, it doesn't make me feel any better about ordering the Altrider bars.
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Hope these pics answer your question

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William,

Is there a place on the Motech bars to mount 2" dia driving lights in such a way that they are protected. I am leaning towards mounting them on the forks.
 
socalrob said:
William,

Is there a place on the Motech bars to mount 2" dia driving lights in such a way that they are protected. I am leaning towards mounting them on the forks.
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The higher the better for lights. BigDog has some very nice lights with handlebar mounts. that might be the way to go if you have room there.
 
Wolftrax said:
For what it's worth, I'm going to stick with the Altriders. Looking at the SW bars they appear not to protect the bike at the most vulnerable part, the leading edge of plastic on the plastic "tank". I've dropped mine twice off road and the tank is the contact point. The SW's appear to protect the engine and not the plastics. The Altriders will accomplish both based on points of contact.
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I believe the idea behind the SWM bars is that they flare out lower than where that tank contact point is. Therefore resting on the bars before that tank plastic can hit the ground.

I am sure William will give us a pic of the bike laying down :D...
 
Mounted my Sw-Motech's today. Bars and hardware are 8 lbs 3 oz. Went on easy, although I routed my clutch cable under instead of over the first time and that didn't work out. :-) I've got the Sw-Motech skid plate, that all went together just fine as expected. Full gallery of bar and plate install at http://krussell.smugmug.com/Other/husky-sw-motech/29889922_BSrbn3.



Here's some highlights, hopefully not dups...

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socalrob said:
William,

Is there a place on the Motech bars to mount 2" dia driving lights in such a way that they are protected. I am leaning towards mounting them on the forks.
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I stared at mine a while, and I don't see how you would get lights mounted with any protection at all. I guess in under the cross bar MIGHT be possible, but I think that's too low personally.
 
krussell said:
Mounted my Sw-Motech's today. Bars and hardware are 8 lbs 3 oz. Went on easy, although I routed my clutch cable under instead of over the first time and that didn't work out. :-) I've got the Sw-Motech skid plate, that all went together just fine as expected. Full gallery of bar and plate install at http://krussell.smugmug.com/Other/husky-sw-motech/29889922_BSrbn3.
Here's some highlights, hopefully not dups...
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WOW - Thanks for those pics - really a wealth of information. I think you have added a lot to this thread. Answered a lot of my questions about the SWM bars.

When it is on its side - is the weight still down low or does it feel like it is teeter-tottering on the bar? How do the bars feel - flex at all? do they flex when they are down on its side?

Really a great post thanks a bunch!
 
Allen said:
WOW - Thanks for those pics - really a wealth of information. I think you have added a lot to this thread. Answered a lot of my questions about the SWM bars.

When it is on its side - is the weight still down low or does it feel like it is teeter-tottering on the bar? How do the bars feel - flex at all? do they flex when they are down on its side?

Really a great post thanks a bunch!
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It's teeter tottering on the bar, you can see the front wheel is a bit off the ground. That's a piece of 3/4" plywood that I layed it on, perhaps not the best example but even without that the handlebars are going to be in the air.

There is zero flex in the bars. Granted I didn't throw it over, or otherwise torment it, but it's an extremely solid assembly.
 
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