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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Vit pilen inspired strada

C

Charlie Cruz

Husqvarna
C Class
Hi, i just want to share my strada which we modified by cutting about 3 inches from the rear frame, changed the whole body panels, modified the seats, custom exhaust and swapped all the lights. Lowered with 1&3/4 lowering link, dropped the front as well and fitted clip on handle bars. We also changed the rims to spoked wheels. I used the original 18 inch rear rim for the front and bought a 17 inch takasago 4.25 rim for the rear2016-06-28 04.47.16.jpg 2016-06-28 04.53.15.jpg
 
I stripped all the body panels, lights etc until the frame... I basically cut about 3 inches from the tail end to proportion the profile. We fashioned the shape with two part foam. Once theI was happy with the shape, fiberglass was laid out and sanded. Brackets for the headlamp and gauge was fabricated with 3mm steel plates. The tail light was an aftermarket DRL light for cars. We fabricated a radiator guard and imbedded a flexible DRL/signal.light. the body is now one piece and is painted and we added brushed aluminium stickers for the stripes. I also took out the side mirrors and installed a rear camera and a 3.5 inch lcd up front. I swapped the strada mags for terra rims then took out the hubs, I placed the original rear rim to the front hub (18×3.5) and installed pirelli 120/70/18. I had to buy a 4.5 rwide takasago 17 inch rim for the rear and paired it w a pirelli mt60 160/60/17.
 
I had the pipe fabricated with sinless steel. The seat was done by making a copy of the oem seat frame then we bent it and had it upholstered.
 
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