• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Blinkers. How to Protect Them?

I'll go with the remove them option. If your concerned about being legal, most all of the integrated type don't qualify. I think somewhere in the DOT rules there is a minimum separation between the running/brake light and the signals as well as a minimum distance from center of bike that they must be. Been running mine like that for years........

That said I used a flexable LED strip from Radiantz.com
http://www.radiantz.com/index1.html?c85.html&1
when I made my own license plate bracket after my stock turd broke off. And no not legal. One strip is too little too, I had planned on three strips but it was stolen and stripped before I could add the other two...... Not sure what set up I'll use when I put it back together. Since I have two already I'm sure I'll incorporate them in some manner.
 
I've sat at intersections a couple times with my HDB blinkers on with a cop behind me. If they are not DOT compliant, then apparently they don't care.
 
They don't care.

In general, in a city, unless your specifically spotted by traffic division AND they feel like making a point you would never get noticed. OHV rangers...... maybe. State troopers...... maybe. Doing something stupid worthy of being stopped...... maybe if they know enough to tack it on a ticket. Same goes for a crash, or a hip insurance adjuster trying to avoid a payout.

My take is in an urban environment, you can have almost nothing and it won't matter enough to get pulled over in and of itself.

I know that Paul HDB know's DOT rules and either they are DOT compliant with proper installation (beyond his control) or are labeled as for in addition to...... I know his mirrors are DOT compliant :)

Actually I think Paul might carry a copy of the relevant DOT regulations with him too...... He's like that.
 
I know from personal experience that the minimum distance between them has to be 11 inches and the surface area of the lens has to be a minimum of 3 square inches , of course this may have changed since I took my bike through inspection the last time and is for the state inspection in the small wonder state. I have also been shot down for too slow/fast turn signals ,it seems to me that some inspectors don't like anything but the brand of bike they ride so they nit pick anything they can find. I usually run the Baja Designs flexible stalk with pretty good luck but the aluminum mounting rack under the fender on my 09 510 usually bends before the signals break .
 
I broke my right rear signal the day I brought my te511 home from the dealer. I replaced the rear signals with extreme dual sport signals. They have held up well and are very tough.
 
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