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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Cheap mod for using Ultimate MX carrier

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funmachines

Husqvarna
AA Class
I was not able to use my Ultimate MX carrier with my 04 TC450 without making some sort of change. When I called the company that makes it they said to just use the strap from the handlebars and make it tight. It did not work for me because it flopped around too much. A piece of 1.25 x 2 hardwood with two holes drilled in it solved the problem for me - might help someone else.
 

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I was not able to use my Ultimate MX carrier with my 04 TC450 without making some sort of change. When I called the company that makes it they said to just use the strap from the handlebars and make it tight. It did not work for me because it flopped around too much. A piece of 1.25 x 2 hardwood with two holes drilled in it solved the problem for me - might help someone else.
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It's amazing how ingenious people are on the forum.:thumbsup:
Thanx for sharing.
 
I have been looking to get one of these units. Do you like it and feel safe hauling your bike all the time? Aprez mod of course. Thanks for the info.

Alex
 
I have one for my 2008 TE 450 and at first I was a bit concerned, but I use two tie-down straps to keep the bike from wiggling around. The unit has been nothing short of perfect and I love it! I saw the above MOD and that will simply not work for my '08 TE 450 as the footpeg mounting posts are barely long enough to wrench...especially with the added thickness of an Uptite bash/skid plate.
 
Ultimate MX carriers are nice. They save you the grief of running your bike up ramps into the back of a tall pick-up (I have a 4WD 2500HD that's pretty high stock). It works perfectly for my Cannondale with it's flat skid plate, but the 04 TC450 has a gap under the footpegs and can't be tightened down all the way without raising the front in the air. I would have welded up longer footpeg bolt/clamps, but that would not have fixed the problem. Another nice thing about the Ultimate carriers is that you can use them as a bike stand when you are out somewhere.
 
08 TE 250 and mine works fine stock. Put a couple of straps on too. It does bob a little when the ground is bumpy but mine didn't loosen up anytime so no real worries.

I've thought about the Sprinter Van but I've only got 150,000 on my truck.
 
Good mode.:thumbsup:

I have an Ultimate MX carrier and use a strap around the seat. And one from the handle bars to bottom of my jeep to stop the bike from moving.

I worry about the bike falling off, so far it has not. I use it for short trips. I also have a small toy hauler for longer trips.
 
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