• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 fender/license plate holder eliminator ideas

I know most of you aren't as brazen, but I get down to business. Especially after a few beers:
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It seems ages ago that my Terra was red and pretty. Not some camo'd, knobby-tire, commuter beast.
 
It may come down to doing that. I'm first going to try this 7/8" tubing and see how the bolts hold up with a Rotopax on the washboard roads around here.
If they make it without snapping (for a 3rd time), I'll make a few for others who want something other than the stock plasticrap rack.
But if I can't get any fasteners to hold up to the vibrations I'll just have to incorporate it to my panniers and you all are out of luck.
 
If I were home long enough to fab something up myself, I would have long attempted this on my own. However, seeing as how I'm hardly ever at home, I'm anxiously awaiting TCI's solution to this problem. Tom should be starting the project today. I hope they find something marketable enough to produce. I really like their stuff, and would love to have it on my TR.
 
We need some Kiwi riders to see if they can eyeball the Ventura rack setup. They seem to have a modular setup & what appears to be a standalone rear rack. They are advertising the product now & the marketing blurb states that it's built tough to survive the outback. I've asked for more info or a brochure but no further info is available from the Aussie distributor.
 
RidingDonkeys said:
If I were home long enough to fab something up myself, I would have long attempted this on my own. However, seeing as how I'm hardly ever at home, I'm anxiously awaiting TCI's solution to this problem. Tom should be starting the project today. I hope they find something marketable enough to produce. I really like their stuff, and would love to have it on my TR.
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I know the bike for the prototyping is in the shop. :thumbsup:
 
I'm tracking it. In fact, Tom emailed me today and said things were coming together nicely. No photos to leak though. :(

Thanks for donating your bike for the prototyping. :applause:
 
First post on here for me. Guess what happened to me today! My license plate flew off and the plastic mount that mounts it to the bike broke too. Just a novice trail did the deed. Looks like a lot of us are in the same boat. Now to figure out if I am going to go down to the dealer and see if I could get it replaced under warranty or buy a tail tidy kit.



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Scutler said:
First post on here for me. Guess what happened to me today! My license plate flew off and the plastic mount that mounts it to the bike broke too. Just a novice trail did the deed. Looks like a lot of us are in the same boat. Now to figure out if I am going to go down to the dealer and see if I could get it replaced under warranty or buy a tail tidy kit.
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Sorry you lost your ass! Welcome to the club.
 
RuggedExposure said:
It may come down to doing that. I'm first going to try this 7/8" tubing and see how the bolts hold up with a Rotopax on the washboard roads around here.
If they make it without snapping (for a 3rd time), I'll make a few for others who want something other than the stock plasticrap rack.
But if I can't get any fasteners to hold up to the vibrations I'll just have to incorporate it to my panniers and you all are out of luck.
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every dirt/gravel road around here is full/covers with washboards in every corner.....my fender made it almost a whole mile before the "fixes" began
 
Has anyone had any issues fitting the r&g tidy? I put mine on and the tail light is crooked and sunken in and there is about a half inch gap between the plastics where it looks like everyone else's meets nicely. I am positive I followed the instructions but I can't seem to work out any other way it could be put on?
 
Another thread showed this to be the case (Possibly earlier in this one). I heard about it and decided to get another OEM tail fender just recently. The R&G looks nice in their images, but nobody I've spoken with was able to get one in unmodified, and several other people on this forum had the same problem as you.

I'm going to fab brackets to support the fender. The fender doesn't look bad at all, so I don't mind just reinforcing it.
 
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