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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Handlebar Clamp

zilly

zilly

Husqvarna
AA Class
So in looking at the handlebars on my son's bike (04 cr125) they looked tweaked. On closer inspection it is the top clamp which has twisted/bent and so when I crank it down it twists the bars slightly.

My question is has anyone else bent this? Do you think I would have any luck bending it back in a vise?

Are there suggsestions for aftermarket clamps which bolt directly up? The ones which I have seen are two part clamps rather than the one solid unit which spans the gap between the bolts-I think they would work...

I would rather make the old one work but if its weakened I don't want to take a chance with it.

Any advice would be great.
 
I bent mine on my WR 250. I put new bolts in. One was bent a little and the other was bent the other way. You couldn't hardly tell it till you rolled them on a flat surface. Then I took the Aluminum top piece, put it in a vice protected against vise bits (Marks) and bent it back slowly. I figured I had nothing to loose except buy a new piece.
 
thank you, I actually have the BRP bushings in because I thought that was the problem initially and I think to a certain extent it was.

I don't know why I didn't notice the bent clamp, but I didn't until now.

I will try to bend tonight.
 
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