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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Grip Puppies - larger grips that can be placed over existing grips

Coffee

Coffee

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http://www.casporttouring.com/cst/motorcycle/GRIPPUP/GPSMALL.html

Because my hands cramp up easily I've added an additional set of grips on top of stock grips on my 2006 TE250, but the Grip Puppies seem like a much more elegant solution to me. I will eventually order a set and try them out, but wanted to let others know.

For the record, the thickness of the additional set of grips I used was about 0.2", which was actually a bit too thick. The Grip Puppies are listed as 0.15" which will hopefully be about right.

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Update:
Ok, I've used them for a while and here is what I think, keep in mind the goal was to have physically larger grips because holding my hands around normal size grips gets painful for me after a short time - personal issue that I've seem to have developed over time. These comments are specific to my TR650, which of course is much different than other bikes:
  • Yes - they are larger in diameter, which is good for me.
  • Yes - they reduce what little vibration I have on my TR650 which is a really smooth bike to begin with, and also has bar ends.
  • On road general comment - really nice regardless of what gloves I am wearing
  • Off road: not sure. Seems to depend on what gloves I am wearing. With Mechanix gloves which are already grippy, heat seems to be generated a bit too much. With my Thor MX gloves that I bought many years ago with leather palms, no problem.
  • On road specific comment - and this will sound incredibly lame/silly/weird - they are incredibly helpful in high cross winds. I loathe wind, heights (bridges), and traffic. These grip puppies improved my riding in those, and all other conditions by at least 10x. Even riding in traffic in high wind with massive traffic at high speeds I find tolerable now - before I made every attempt to avoid those situations. Experiments will continue...
 
I want to specifically point out that I am close to the San Francisco Bay Area - it can get very windy here.

Wind may, or may not, be a problem for where you ride.
 
I am sure if anyone can tell us why they help in the wind, it you Coffee. I always liked larger grips on the street and would also be curious how you ultimately find them for off road use.
 
My first dirt bike, an old Suzuki DR350, had heated grip elements under oversized grips. They were comfortable for my big hands but when things got bumpy my hands came off the grips a couple of times. It seemed way too dangerous for the kind of riding I was going to do so I changed them to normal grips. Now I get sore hands and fore arms. Maybe these would be the perfect in between size and help with the buzzy nature of the WR300.
Thanks, Coffee!
 
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