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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

JonDirt

JonDirt

Husqvarna
AA Class
In the world of suspension, there are lots of measurement-based articles out there for setting up your bike. But when it comes to handlebars most articles seem to follow an 'adjust to taste' rule. Given the huge range of different handlebar designs, risers, lengths, etc., does anyone know of a more evidence-driven answer for optimizing handlebar setup - e.g. based on arm length, torso length, height, ride style etc? I'm not 100% happy with my 610 handlebars, but its expensive to buy e.g. risers or longer bars only to find they are the wrong answer. Barring an empirical answer, perhaps folks can post their own experiences.
 
My rule of thumb is to experiment and use whatever is most comfortable in your most common riding position and narrow enough not to catch every tree on the way by...

Experimenting usually involves having someone hold the bars from the front, floating them in space to find your best position...
 
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