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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

added skid plate and rad braces

dirtriderwjc2000

dirtriderwjc2000

Husqvarna
A Class
I just added these, picked up off eBay from a guy in Israel. They seem like good products plus they were red. And onyl $169 plus $12 shipping for the braces, plate and rear brake guard. I bought on 3-12 and at my house 3-16 amazing:applause: I know I need to attached one bolt to the brace and the scratches are from me:banghead: I was going to order the up-tight plate but I could not do the COD, no one is home to pay and now he has paypal option and the OFG braces but I really like the red.

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george will be thrilled that his plate has been more or less copied. it doesn't have the ventilations holes the uptite one's do.... :banghead::banghead:
 
huskyfrk;24475 said:
george will be thrilled that his plate has been more or less copied. it doesn't have the ventilations holes the uptite one's do.... :banghead::banghead:
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Just some food for thought here. I know for a fact that George actually researched and experimented with different grades of aluminum to determine which ones were best suited to absorbing impact shocks and not transferring them to the rider while still being durable enough that they are not just sacrificial crumple zones. Yes, I believe that the holes are big part of engine durability because the engine case radiates as much heat away from the engine as the radiators do. One final point is to look at the quality of the build, the welds on the import plate are MIG welded while George's welds are very nice TIG welds that look like a stack of dimes laid on there side.
I'm not trying to take anything away from Dirtriders new protection, I'm sure that it is very nice and will do its' job but please don't compare it to the Uptite pieces, theres a lot more that goes into a quality skid plate than just covering up the engine.

This rant was not directed at anyone in particular I just want people to think about all the effort that goes into the design and fabrication of custom parts and often times when they are copied you lose many of the design aspects.
 
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