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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

2014 FE 511 Footpegs

Guys - got the $50 pegs - bottom line - FANTASTIC!

I took some detailed pictures and will post when I have a few spare mins. The quality looks pretty darn good. If I paid $120-150 I would have been satisfied. But, I didnt - I paid $50 shipped! Weight was 6 oz per peg with steel peg inserts.

Fit is spot on. Whatever Italian engineer designed a bike that the whole brake lever assembly has to come off to change a footpeg should be hung! Install was a no-brainer (sans the brake lever). My only concern is that if fully deflected, they get hung on my Hyde skidplate - but the stockers did that too - so not a big deal.

Time will tell of course, but so far very pleased. I will take a stab in the dark these came from China. They machined a "R" and "L" in a font that is almost always unique to China. Quality of the aluminum? Hard to say - but the machining looks quite good. Pins are standard too and the leftovers from my Fastways appear to fit.
 
I wanted to do a quick update as I finally got around to some spring maintenance. The yard may not be ready, but my 449 is!

I have to tell you, these little footpegs are quite nice. I took some close up pics so you can see what you get for your $50 (shipped). Overall, I could not be more pleased. I actually got some time on the bike this weekend and they are worlds better than the stock pegs. I have my first good dirt thrashing in two weeks.

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I had a set of those. Keep an eye on the pins, I had several fall out. Also when I layed the bike down I found some of them contacted the frame. I just installed some Apico pegs from the UK. They are nice but I had to do a little grinding to clear the kickstarter.
 
PowerKord said:
I had a set of those. Keep an eye on the pins, I had several fall out. Also when I layed the bike down I found some of them contacted the frame. I just installed some Apico pegs from the UK. They are nice but I had to do a little grinding to clear the kickstarter.
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First ride one came out - I put red locktite on and none came out after several hundred miles offroad now. I have thrashed them on the rocks quite well and they are holding up perfectly.

They are pegs - not exactly something the Chinese cannot make. I dare to guess how many other of my Husky parts were from China...things probably way more complex than a hung of aluminum!
 
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