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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

610 Gauge mount and protection

mtne

Husqvarna
AA Class
Paul at Highwaydirtbikes was nice enough to measure my gauge cluster to make a billet protector to mount to his handguards upper bar clamp. I'm guessing that he'll be making them available as some point or that if this is something you would like just let him know. It not only protects the gauges it locates them a bit better than when I did it myself using the stock bracket.

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Here's a side view that also shows my key mount solution for now. I told him to not bother to integrate the key with it as I figured most people would rather relocate it anyways. I'm still hoping to make something work with his switch setup and the round 7 or 8 pin key.

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I've been thinking about getting some HDB handguards for a while now, but if that billet protector becomes available for the stock guage then I'm sold.:applause:
 
I agree, Paul deserves a lot of credit for contributing to the TE610 accessories list. I'm working on what I need for the hand guards and risers and would like to include the gauge protector in the order. However, I'm thinking that it needs some kind of integration option for the key switch.
 
Just thought I'd revisit this...

DTYO- our thinking, or my thinking as I asked for the key to not be integrated was that I will eventually switch the ignition from one of the center switch ports on the top bar clamp. I think Paul may be making a generic key mount similar to what I did that can be mounted to the existing hole on the guards. That would be an easy relocate/add for any bike and now that I've had it that way for a while now I find that I rather like it.
 
Sounds reasonable. I could even imagine drilling and tapping a couple of mounting holes on the side of the mount and fabricating a bracket for the key switch.

Dan
 
If anyone is interested I made my own key switch bracket out of some thin guage aluminum I picked up from the hardware store. It was fairly easy, and I used an existing screw to mount it to the protector.
pictures can be found at the following links:
http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/meijerclassics/HDB handguards/DSC_0019.jpg
http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/meijerclassics/HDB handguards/DSC_0014.jpg
http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/meijerclassics/HDB handguards/DSC_0013.jpg
http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/meijerclassics/HDB handguards/DSC_0011.jpg
 
meijerclassics;44690 said:
If anyone is interested I made my own key switch bracket out of some thin guage aluminum I picked up from the hardware store. It was fairly easy, and I used an existing screw to mount it to the protector.
pictures can be found at the following links:
http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/meijerclassics/HDB handguards/DSC_0019.jpg
http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/meijerclassics/HDB handguards/DSC_0014.jpg
http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/meijerclassics/HDB handguards/DSC_0013.jpg
http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/meijerclassics/HDB handguards/DSC_0011.jpg

That looks great :thumbsup:
 
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