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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Crash Bar Fittment

Kenneth Webb

Kenneth Webb

Livin' It Up!
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Chances are that just about everyone knows this, and takes the time to do it, except for me in the past. But just in case, I thought I would post a quick comment. I have new Highway Dirt Bike crash bars for my 310R, and will be installing them soon. But first, I had a set to install on my WRR for a big trip coming up in a few days. The HDB guards are tough, heavy aluminum, and they just never fit up right at the end of the bars. I could always cold bend other brands to be workable, but not HDB so I just got by the way they came. I finally decided to take the time to do it right and borrowed an oxy/acetylene rig, heated the guards just behind the bar end for only a few seconds (10 or so) and bent and twisted to fit. SO easy! No more wonky fitment at the end of the bars!
 
If they are heat treated (tempered) heating is not a good thing. I assume they are aluminum alloy. The "T" in aluminum alloys is the temper that the material is heat treated to. For instance, 6062T6 is harder than 6061T3. The alloy is the same, but the tempering or "draw back" is different. Heat higher than the original draw back will soften the part.
 
The bars are very thick and I don't know if they are formed cold or hot. Heating the end probably annealed them in that area but not elsewhere. I think they will remain plenty tough and having them actually fit is a benefit.
 
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