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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

DIY Frame Tape

Burgo

Burgo

Husqvarna
A Class
Hi all,
A quick DIY solution here for those who's boot's might be scuffing your frame.
(Mine were, right through the paint to bare metal on the right upper frame.)
I love my TE310, but as all those with Italian Huskies will know, it's getting harder and harder to find hard parts and having to pay around AUD$100 (incl postage from the US) for a couple of pieces of frame tape was not an option.
Enter Croc Grip Soft textured Vinyl. (Available from Bunnings. Cheap at about $8)
Touch up paint and clean the frame, Cut Vinyl sheet to desired shape, peel off the backing and voila. Nearly as good as a bought one!
Rode 24 hours after applying and they've held up well, no lifting and not worn through.....yet. haha!
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I like it, nice finding. I searched for something similar here in Spain and could not find anything but the typical Grip Tape that is more like 60 grit sandpaper. I tried on of these tapes but the adhesive was pretty bad and only lasted about one or two rides.
 
Hurky said:
I like it, nice finding. I searched for something similar here in Spain and could not find anything but the typical Grip Tape that is more like 60 grit sandpaper. I tried on of these tapes but the adhesive was pretty bad and only lasted about one or two rides.
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Yeah Hurky, the sandpaper stuff could be tough on your boots too I'd say.

This vinyl is soft textured. Soft, but grippy.

I nicked the missus hair dryer for an hour or so and heated up the frame before applying. Plus gave the edges a warm and solid push all round once applied. (Seems to work for graphics, so fingers crossed, but not much you can do if the adhesive is bad)

We'll see how these go after a few rides. :cheers:
 
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http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/how-do-you-think-this-looks.28815/
 
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