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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Do the 2010 plastics fit the 2009 bikes?
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seanoj
Husqvarna
AA Class
I got the stickers fully off my 2009 TE 310 tank plastics and used some goof-off to remove the glue. They look pretty good with no stickers.
The new plastics will go on after the next guy asks me why the pipe is on the wrong side of my honda.
-Sean
fitness2go
Husqvarna
AA Class
mxracernumber1
Husqvarna
A Class
fitness2go
Husqvarna
AA Class
mxracernumber1
Husqvarna
A Class
seanoj;77137 said:
The new plastics get the graphics applied during h molding process. This is known as in-mold-decoration to most, but in the industry, the generally accepted term for this process is I.L.M or in-mold-labeling. The graphics will last much longer and also, will take about 1 pound off the weight of the bike. Some race teams (like James Stuarts' sponsors) order their graphics and plastics done this way direct from Cycra. ALL the graphics are hand-inserted into the mold before it closes, when the plastic is injected, the graphics are pushed against the cavity wall and subjected to about 17,000 psi. When the part comes out, the graphics are as stuck on as graphics can be and have a super glossy finish which results from the heat and pressure. They do this for each and every part that gets graphics on it. When you're talking about fenders, shrouds, side panels and front #plates, this saves about 3.5lbs over a regular stick-on graphics kit. Even the numbers are printed right onto the backgrounds just like normal. This is a custom job and most of the teams doing it order 5 or 5 sets at the time. Anyone can have this done for their bike as well, but you're talking somewhere in the $800/set range. Most of that price (99.99%) is set-up and run time for the machine, and since this is such a custom deal, it requires and operator standing at the machine sticking the graphics labels in to the mold every time it opens. There is very little material cost involved with PP. A full set of moto plastics is about $4 worth of PP and the graphics cost are negligible as well, but they would never admit that. Real cost to print the labeling (graphics) is about $8 and that is mostly the cost of the ink.
When I heard Husky was doing this for 2010, I wondered why it took someone soo long to think of doing this on factory dirtbike. Teams have been doing it for a couple of years.
mxracernumber1;81177 said:
KTM has been doing it for a while.
Wetdog
Husqvarna
AA Class
get your 2010 plastics here