• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

AltRider LLC said:
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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Thank you for the feedback. It really helps manage peoples expectations. I think most here understand delays happen.
 
I have made many orders with them and never ever had an issue. Just gotta remember that this is a brand new part and there are huge differences between prototyping vs production processes. Working in engineering for a manufacturing company...I deal with this almost daily :banghead: so I feel their pain.

These first couple batches of bars are basically beta production runs which is meant to address all of the "bugs" in the production process. Unfortunatly for us (and them), they have been hit with several "bugs" causing ship dates to be pushed back.

That being said...lets pretend for a second that this part had been out on the market for a while (many months or even years) and then they started having these same types delays with that part....then that would be unacceptable :thumbsdown:...but this isn't the case.

Suck's, but it is what it is. I just happen to be in a position to where I am not in immediate need of the bars, so I can wait a little longer.
 
I called them last Tuesday and was told they had one (silver) on the shelf. Seeing as I live just south of Seattle an hour and a half later it was mine. The installation was a breeze, it only took about 30 minutes to put it on.

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any further word on the alt rider bars being compatible (or not compatible) with the B&B skidplate? that will be my (hopeful) setup once the bars arrive...
 
infinitipearl said:
any further word on the alt rider bars being compatible (or not compatible) with the B&B skidplate? that will be my (hopeful) setup once the bars arrive...
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I have a B&B too and am confident they will be fine. They mount way higher up with their own bolts instead of relying on an egine bolt. In CRSAM's pic, the mount is as high as that botom bar - they clamp themselves together from each side. I like the way they did it.
 
infinitipearl said:
any further word on the alt rider bars being compatible (or not compatible) with the B&B skidplate? that will be my (hopeful) setup once the bars arrive...
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I reckon you'll be ok. I thought there may have been a problem since I went to fit my SW-Motech bars, but looking closer to the mounting point, it looks higher than the SWM ones. SW-Motech use the same engine mounting bolt that the B&B plate uses for the upper front bracket. I'll post up some pics when I make the mods
 
AltRider LLC said:
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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Thanks for the update. Please let us know if anything changes..
 
Dinosan said:
Nice set up! What is that skid plate, ricochet?
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It's the Husky skid plate. What I like about it is that I only need to remove one bolt to take it off so when I change the oil I can also clean the babies bottom and the gunk and mud off the plate.
 
Finally! Got the call that I can come pick them up! :applause: I think the black bars are gonna look sweeeeeet.
 
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