• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

Upper Fork Guard - DIY

KXcam22

KXcam22

Husqvarna
AA Class
If anyone has spend a frustrating evening polishing out a upper fork fork dent with a broom handle and some emery, the following guards might help. I have put these on every bike I have owned in the last 20 years. It is a simple 10-1/2" long 2" ID piece of ABS or PVC drain pipe with a 1-3/4" slot cut in one side (so you can snap it on). I fall a lot in rocks so I like the security that these offer. A whole 2' of pipe make a pair. This latest pair are on my 300. Hope this idea helps someone. Cam.

PS:a as an additional note, I use a white PVC one to mount my bikes sticker-type licence plate. Removable and transferable from bike to bike, like a reg license plate.


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That looks top shelf KX. Give your self the day off, well done.
What did you spray the piping with, did you prime first, how many top coats. Asking as I am going to copy-cat you.
 
It's super easy. I cut the gap with a saber saw and then file the edges nice and smooth. It takes about 15 minutes. I used some plastic paint on this one which was not the best and kept running, so it took way more coats than usual. I made these guards in 2007 and this is their 12th year in service. Took some sanding to get rid of the divots and in the end it would have taken less time to make new ones. Other ones I used tremclad with great results. The only caution is to make sure the inside edges (next to the fork) of the plastic are nicely smooth and beveled. If you leave them sharp it can scratch the fork anodizing when putting them on. Sand them smooth and radiused and no issues. No primer, usually tremclad or on this one some gold plastic paint. Cam.
 
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