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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Dirt Bagz received...

C

ContraHusky

Husqvarna
A Class
Got my Dirt Bagz mounted up tonight. Well, the racks anyway...hung the bags temporarily to make sure all was good. And it is...

As we thought, they mount right into the passenger grabber holes. You actually NEED to keep the grab rails on the bike, as the bolts thread into them. You could, however, go buy 4 nylock nuts and lose the grab rails. I am keeping the grabbers since they're a handy tie-down for a duffel. If you have the Husky OEM rack, that would also work as an anchor for the bolts.
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Racks clear the muffler by 2" or so. I did not keep the passenger footpegs since the rack has a tie-down built into it in about that location.
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Anyhoo...They're nice, they're light and the fit is perfect.
 
Well, I spoke too soon. It turns out the left side passenger peg bracket needs to stay on as a spacer. I don't want the pegs, and will call the company tomorrow to see if they have a suggestion for me.

otherwise, all fitted up very nicely. Would hate to have just the left side passenger pegs, though...
 
That looks nice. Can you take a photo from the rear? I want to see if there's room there for a rotopax (I have the FMF single muffler).
 
Fast1 said:
+1

Do they have a suggested weight limit (the rack) per side?
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Not near a camera or the bike right now, but it looks like there's room for a RotoPax, though i don't know if the bracket is strong enough as-is. IIRC, the Dirt-Bagz website says the bags themselves are good for 15# each offroad, and infer that they'll handle more on the street.

However, the yoke of the bags are supporting most of the weight on the fender and seat . Dirt-Bagz says that the brackets are only to locate the bags, and keep them out of the exhaust, tire, etc.

I was hoping to be able to mount a Rotopax there myself, but without some strengthening, i don't think that's a great idea. I will probably get a fender rack, and mount a Rotopax there, and tie my tent and sleeping back on top of it. I don't like the peg mount gas can, and I'm not dishing out $750 for the Safari tank.
 
ContraHusky said:
Well, I spoke too soon. It turns out the left side passenger peg bracket needs to stay on as a spacer. I don't want the pegs, and will call the company tomorrow to see if they have a suggestion for me.

otherwise, all fitted up very nicely. Would hate to have just the left side passenger pegs, though...
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I made a spacer out of a deep socket that I cut down to fit. Works perfect.
 
These are the bigger ones -- Ranger?. They really hold a lotta stuff. I did a trip with these bags on a 610 last summer. I took my camping gear (tent, bag, pad, etc.), clothes for 4 days, two sets of riding gear AND my son's gear for the week that the idiot forgot to put in the truck that took him to Scout camp. I had a large drybag and a smaller duffel strapped across the top. The bike rode great. I left the DB's on the bike for the day trips through the forest roads.

I'm going to skip a top rack. This works just fine. A duffel or drybag just bungees right across.
 
I cut off the black plastic piece to which the signals are mounted just aft of the signals. Put little bolts in to hold it in place.

I just got my license tag in the mail this week. I went to the TAP plastics store, told them what I was going to do and they gave me a piece of some kinda plastic to make a plate holder. The guy said I can shape it with a heat gun and it will stay stiff and tough. $1.67 with tax. I'll fab something up this weekend and post pics. I'm going to put the plate as tight up under the tail as I can get away with.
 
I re-purposed the existing plate mount, cut off the aft end of the black plastic, and re-mounted it to what was left. Complete with a pair of LED plate illumination lights. :thumbsup:

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Thanks for the picture. That looks like plenty of room for a 2Gal rotopax. There are 3 potential support points/bolts on the right side for it: grab handle, muffler (no longer there), and footpeg. Something can be fabbed up I think. Time to order the rotopax and dirt bagz.

ContraHusky said:
Rear view. I'll eventually remove that left passenger peg when I work out a proper bit of tube for a spacer.

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CJBROWN said:
I re-purposed the existing plate mount, cut off the aft end of the black plastic, and re-mounted it to what was left. Complete with a pair of LED plate illumination lights. :thumbsup:

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Side profile:

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Where did you get those cool little LED plate lights??
 
Huskyfly said:
Where did you get those cool little LED plate lights??
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You'll find them listed under this ebay seller: http://myworld.ebay.com/mlochridge/&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2754
They have black billet ones, chrome, and stainless. Cheap price, good quality. Click on his 'ebay store' and search for 'license'. There are about 50 varieties.

I had one snap at the bolt when I tightened it down, emailed him and he sent me a new pair immediately. No problems with any of the others. The black ones are powder coated aluminum. I wired them into where the original license light plugged into the harness.

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CJBROWN said:
You'll find them listed under this ebay seller: http://myworld.ebay.com/mlochridge/&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2754
They have black billet ones, chrome, and stainless. Cheap price, good quality. Click on his 'ebay store' and search for 'license'. There are about 50 varieties.

I had one snap at the bolt when I tightened it down, emailed him and he sent me a new pair immediately. No problems with any of the others. The black ones are powder coated aluminum. I wired them into where the original license light plugged into the harness.

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VERY COOL!!:thumbsup: On order.
 
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