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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Crash Bar Bags

To clarify, this is not turning into a group buy, so you will need to order individually. Maybe if he gets a lot of orders at once he can cut us a break, but I haven't asked for that. www.stormind.net to select your color, etc. Hope these are as good as I think they will be, but nobody has seen them yet as I am the test mule, or rather, my bike is!
 
I understand that. Just letting you and him know that there are a lot us interested his Crash Bar Bags.
 
Crashbar bags ordered - they should be ready in one-two weeks. I will postpics, as soon as I have them but this should be a great place to keep tubes, tire repair kit etc.
 
ozav8r said:
Crashbar bags ordered - they should be ready in one-two weeks. I will postpics, as soon as I have them but this should be a great place to keep tubes, tire repair kit etc.
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Did you get black bags? I am thinking of having the gunsight logo on mine.
 
Received an e-mail from Brady yesterday. He said he planned on "..doing a run of Husky bar bags early this next week. Should have them ready to ship by end of next week..."
 
$82.00 with shipping. That was the cost without the Husky logo. I think Ken was looking into having the logo added, so his may be a bit more.
 
My crashbar bags have just been delivered to my SoCal address. Only problem - I'm 7000 miles away in Oz and can't get to to it until my next LAX trip on the 30th. Sooo, - looks like someone's gonna beat me to it then.....
 
I am just back from my border to border to border trail ride and have asked Brady to go ahead and ship my bags now. I guess nobody has received theirs and fitted them yet. Anxious to see how they work . On my recent ride I used tank panniers for the first time and they were a great way to carry some readily accessible items, about 8 pounds worth.

On that note, when we got home on Sunday the first thing we did was to weigh all our packed bags and ourselves to find out exactly how much we were carrying in our WR250Rs.

Saddle bags, duffel with camp gear, tank panniers and bar carryall was 65 pounds. Riding gear 11 pounds. Hydration pack 9 pounds. All three of us were in the same close range.
 
I received my Crash Bar Bags Friday but didn't have a chance to check them out till today. Here's how they look and what I plan on carrying in them. I won't be able to trail test them for another week but they look like they will do great. Thanks for getting this started Ken.

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You designed a good size. The left side holds both the rear and front tubes as well as the air pump and misc. patches, etc. The tubes are the original "thin" stock tubes not the thicker heavy duty tubes I replaced them with. My tire irons, bead breaker and trail stand are wrapped in a section of tubing and tucked under the engine on the left side of the AltRider skid plate.
 
Hope everyone is enjoying the bags. Man are they convenient and so useful. Ill credit BigDog for giving me the idea after looking at his tank pannier set up. The bags are near the most shake free part of the bike when off road and any weight is in the perfect place.
 
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