• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Installed my SW Motech bars last night. Followed the directions, but I am not sure about the spacing. It seems like in most of the pics I can find on the SWmotech site the "circles" sit flush with the frame. However the directions show that you use all the spacers and this keeps the bars from touching/meeting at the frame. Here is a picture of mine installed, it looks just like the install paperwork, and I am not sure if the top crossbar would even align if I moved the spacers to get the "circles" to meet the frame. Is this how the bars should look, or did I screw up in my haste?
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dangslow said:
Received my SW Motech crash bars today. I had been a little concerned about how they would work with my Motosportz skid plate. No problem at all. :banana:(Finally, I get to use the dancing banana) The bars come with a spacer that is used if there is nothing attached to the top front bolt. Leave out the spacer, which is the same width as the Motosportz bracket, and it is a perfect fit. My only issue was trimming my home made splash guard to clear the crossbar.
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Based on this pic it looks like that big space is correct. Seems odd, but it just goes to show ya, read the WHOLE thread--don't know how I missed em. :) I am off to search for electrical gremlins.
 
Next said:
Installed my SW Motech bars last night. Is this how the bars should look, or did I screw up in my haste?
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I don't have my instructions handy but here is mine. I also installed the Skidplate and left out the corresponding spacer that came with the bars "if that makes sence"
The bars do need a big spacer on the right facing the bike though.

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Come on guys........lets see those Altrider crash bars. Somebody on the west coast must have them by now.
 
Bugger.

Just picked up my SW-Motech crash bars this evening. Went to fit them tonight and they don't fit with the B&B bashplate :mad:

Will have to make some mods to the B&B. The plate comes up too far and is in the way of the lower engine mount for the bar. Will need to ponder it a bit more
 
Message from altrider regarding their crash bars as of yesterday approximately 1pm est...

"Hello Dean,
Thank you for your interest in AltRider. We currently have 1 set of silver in stock. We are expecting the black early next week and we have 3 sets still available.
Please let me know if I can help with anything else."

I placed an order for a set of the black bars yesterday..
 
Concerning the SW-Motech bars, they come with zinc plated hardware for mounting. With the skid plate in place, the lower mounts are not seen. However the upper mounts are visible, and that shiny annoys me. It also helps that I ruined one of the bolts. :banghead:

The good news is that they are easy to replace. They are M10x1.5 low profile hex bolts, in 60mm and 80mm lengths, one for each side. Fastenal carries them in powdercoat black, which is much more appealing to the eye. My new bolts arrive tomorrow. I will post up pics when I get them installed.
 
Below pics show the conflict between B&B Bashplate and SW-Motech crash bars. It is possible that the Altrider bars may have the same issue. I'm going to have to trim 10-15mm off the top of the plate and the top of the bracket, and lower the mounting holes. Clips turned sideways 90 degrees

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"A manufacturing process has delayed the bars until this Friday."

Will just have to wait a few more days I guess :excuseme:
 
My silver bars should be at the dealer today, I will try to get them ASAP and installed so inquiring minds can view the pics!
 
Latest update on the black Husky crash bars: They are being powder coated today, and should be ready to ship Friday. As we have already informed you, the original ship date was today but unfortunately the manufacturing took a little longer than expected. We apologize for the delay-- we appreciate you sticking with us while we get this sorted out.
 
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