• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

mag00 said:
Jeeze Luoise, that is retarded. How many of you want Crash Bars? I'll friggin setup a jig and make 10 sets. It's all about the numbers. It will take me a set amount of time to design and fit one set, a bit of time to set up a jig to assemble quantity. If I farm out the bending, I can get the costs down with quantity. If I batch powder coat, I can get the cost down.

What is a fair price point?
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I'm in.
 
If you can do it fast I'm in, but they need to be nice. Thinking about cancellation on my altrider order. What is your location.
 
I need em nice too. I'm sure that that butt ugly bash plate for the TR650 is strong, but for that money, I would like something that accentuates the bike.

I haven't made my supply inroads here in Tucson. In CA and CO, I knew who to use and where to get my supplies. I dropped out of fabrication when I moved here.

What do you need the bars to protect? How stout you want them. I'll go shopping for the tubing tomorrow. I'll source out a powder coater, or if you want, they can be bare and you paint any color you want. I do not know what lead time is on the coatings.

For a bash plate, I'm thinking a nice 1/8 steel plate. Some reading on aluminum vs steel, there is no weight advantage for strength on the bash plate. But the fact that steel is a bit more friendly to work with, I think it is better. I may gauge the steel thinner, if it looks like it will work.

I need to get these going for my summer riding, and maybe this will light the fire under me. The Rack is my first priority. Well, maybe the bash plate, but I really need a good rack.
 
mag00 said:
...How many of you want Crash Bars? I'll friggin setup a jig and make 10 sets....
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That puts this site in an awkward situation.

The additional load on the cafehusky server caused by the TR650 discussions caused me to upgrade the server months ago - which is being partially funded by the TR650 sponsors.

Think I will sleep on this topic. Though I certainly share everyones frustration because I am waiting for the ALTrider crash bars too.
 
Coffee sorry for the problem but sponsors that don't produce don't help. You may loose more than you gain. People will loose confidence if we sponsor companies that don't produce. Just my opinion. I will help if I can. Contributing now. Please help coffee if you agree.
 
Coffee said:
The additional load on the cafehusky server caused by the TR650 discussions caused me to upgrade the server months ago - which is being partially funded by the TR650 sponsors.
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So, like if you need money and stuff to make the web site keep running, i'd totally be willing to give you wahtever. i know my brothers doneated like $5000 last year to some john deere site so it would stay running. i'd totally be up for that.
 
roscotom said:
I will help if I can. Contributing now. Please help coffee if you agree.
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+1 ... I just contributed

mag00... I would have thought a replacement rear rack setup would be the place to start. A product not yet available (as far as I can tell) which might get sufficient interest for you to help recover some costs of machinery.
 
I am waiting for my altrider order also, and i'm a bit disappointed that the delivery date is pushed back, but I think this badmouthing of altrider is unwarranted. We're all been in the same boat with all sorts of parts from many manufacturers over the past 6-8 months. The people who bought the first 1 or 2 shipments of TR650s didn't even have any accessories to choose from, and then the talk of the KTM takeover made it seem possible that accessory makers might drop the model completely. I presume that Altrider are pushing back the delivery date for a good reason, and not just to piss people off, so reacting as if they're doing something intentionally to punish you for wanting to be their customer is probably unwarranted and unfair, and given that Altrider probably keeps tabs on these threads, probably isn't going to help any either.

I think if you're not prepared to wait, then go right ahead and cancel your order and buy some alternative, but as far as I know the TR650 crash bars market isn't exactly awash with alternatives.
 
nev.. said:
I am waiting for my altrider order also, and i'm a bit disappointed that the delivery date is pushed back, but I think this badmouthing of altrider is unwarranted.
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+1

And comparison to 1200LC is somehow unfortunate as BMW is going to sell several times more of them. We need to learn how to live with niche bike, I'm afraid.
 
mag00 said:
For a bash plate, I'm thinking a nice 1/8 steel plate. Some reading on aluminum vs steel, there is no weight advantage for strength on the bash plate. But the fact that steel is a bit more friendly to work with, I think it is better. I may gauge the steel thinner, if it looks like it will work.

I need to get these going for my summer riding, and maybe this will light the fire under me. The Rack is my first priority. Well, maybe the bash plate, but I really need a good rack.
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I think you'll find that there are actually quite a few good bash plate designs readily available already. I'm not saying there isn't room for improvement, but between Touratech, Motosportz, SW-Motech, B&B, and Ricochet, there are some good options in every price point.

It seems SW-Motech is the only crash bar in the game though. FabOneUp made a great set for his Terra. I'd love to see something like that available for purchase.
 
It isn't a TR650 thing, a niche bike thing, or an Altrider thing. It is a bad business thing. The most fundamental benchmark of a business is delivering product on time. Quality is subjective, but deadlines are not. If you can't deliver product on time, then your business is going to suffer. If you can't deliver product to me on time, then I'm not going to continue to do business with you.

I am anxiously awaiting Happy Trails to release their luggage racks. However, Happy Trails has been very up front about the fact that they are in development, and they cannot release a projected production date. I'm cool with that. I haven't missed out on anything else and I have made plans accordingly.

AltRider said that they would take pre-orders for a crash bar, and would be shipping them on a specific timeframe. That timeframe keeps shifting. I have made plans around that timeframe. I even built in time for delays. But now we are even beyond that buffer zone. Now it is to the point that I simply don't want to spend my money with them. If they can't meet the deadline that they promised me, then why should I spend my money with them? If they are having supply chain issues, then that is on them to sort out. It is Business 101.
 
Most likely there unforeseen circumstances we're just not aware of.
I know with dealing with many vendors and supplier in the industrial business, delivery dates vary...lots.
Plus you have to keep in mind we're not talking 1000-2000 items here...right. Few dozen at best.
But it would be nice if we did here a reason for the delay.

Enquiring minds want to know!

:cheers:
 
Why not buy it at Walmart? <----sarcasm

I was really steamed last night, and my GF said, "Please don't get into it with them".

That was last night, today is a new day. But I'm still puzzled. I also extend my thanks and gratitude to those who had faith in my abilities. New products will emerge where there is a need, whether it is me or somebody else providing them. That is the beauty of this nation. You have the choice to support whom you wish to.
 
Abby said:
So, like if you need money and stuff to make the web site keep running, i'd totally be willing to give you wahtever. i know my brothers doneated like $5000 last year to some john deere site so it would stay running. i'd totally be up for that.
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Abby,
I can certainly use some money to keep my growing addiction moving along. I ride a Husky & John Deere so I'm hoping that will convince you to help me out.

thanks
 
Got the SW-Motech crash bars installed. Straight forward bolt on.

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I had to trim the Ricochet skid plate to clear the crash bar.

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