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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

heated grips

MotoXotica said:
so what are the pros and cons of specific heated grip brands?which ones are the best?dan
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Dual Star and Symtech (sp) seem to be very popular and recommended by the hard core guys/gals up here. Reason being the elements are specific to clutch and throttle side installation and don't require the ceramic resistor inline like the cheap versions. Clutch side needs insulated with heatshrink or electrical tape to help prevent the heatsink effect of the metal handle bar and thus a cooler grip. Throttle side is easy. All I know is it's a damn good feeling having your cold wet hands being dried by the handgrips! Pretty neat.
 
ioneater said:
Dual Star and Symtech (sp) seem to be very popular and recommended by the hard core guys/gals up here. Reason being the elements are specific to clutch and throttle side installation and don't require the ceramic resistor inline like the cheap versions. Clutch side needs insulated with heatshrink or electrical tape to help prevent the heatsink effect of the metal handle bar and thus a cooler grip. Throttle side is easy. All I know is it's a damn good feeling having your cold wet hands being dried by the handgrips! Pretty neat.
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+1

Kimpex are the cheap ones, they have the resistor, draw full power at all times and dump it to the resistor for low.

I think the moose ones are repackaged symtech elements. Make sure you order the ones for bikes, not the ones for ATV's. The ATV ones use the same elements from side to side.

Later,
 
BreakingPoint said:
Does anyone of you guys know if the alternator is good for it? I wouldn't like to end up with a dead battery... :D
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I would guess if you have a newer (08-12) TE you should be fine but you would
need the specific numbers from the Service Manual and go from there. 200 watt stator in TE IIRC
 
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