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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

I just Buelled

There is a mod somewhere to get both of those headlights on at the same time.
 
Clay is right about American Sport Bikes. Talk to them about your pulsing front brake. You did say they were getting better, but what your doing is probably burning away those hot spots slowly. ASB will sell you a rotor hone (a great low cost addition to your tool collection) and a set of their premium brake pads. Also get new rotor mounting blocks or bushings (I forgot what they were). It is important to replace the hardware. You can layer up some exhaust wrap and get rid of some of the heat on your leg. It looks cool too if you get it in black.

I think it is really cool that you "get" this bike. What year is it?
 
FabOneUp said:
Clay is right about American Sport Bikes. Talk to them about your pulsing front brake. You did say they were getting better, but what your doing is probably burning away those hot spots slowly. ASB will sell you a rotor hone (a great low cost addition to your tool collection) and a set of their premium brake pads. Also get new rotor mounting blocks or bushings (I forgot what they were). It is important to replace the hardware. You can layer up some exhaust wrap and get rid of some of the heat on your leg. It looks cool too if you get it in black.

I think it is really cool that you "get" this bike. What year is it?
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Thanks, read all about the front brake pulsing on a forum last night. Got some things to try. Thankfully I don't think it needs a rotor. its a 2006
 
I had Buell Rotors on my old GPz and they were all warped! Always pulsed and my Grimeca calipers had no anti rattle springs so they rattled like hell at slow speeds. These were his special stainless clad aluminum rotors in the early '80s. Maybe they are just designed to do that :rolleyes:
 
Johnrg said:
I had Buell Rotors on my old GPz
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How did you do that? Did you put the whole front end one it?

Anyway no, they pulse mainly because they need cleaned. I don't think they are warped at all. Basically you clean / sand the rotor and make sure the floating part is clean and allowing it to float. I believe it is a cleaning the rotor issue because it is almost gone now that the rotor has been cleaned by the pads for 647 miles since I got it. I did a quick ride on it last night and it is almost gone. Still going to do the recommended cleaning, losing up mounts.
 
He was making rotors back then and a distributor of parts... He may have been the Dymag distributor at the time. My GPz was a track bike but with stock fork that had Dymags and custom hangers for the lockheed style calipers. Ran an 18 instead of the 19 stocker as well. A moriwaki kitted motor with CR carbs, kerker, etc... A few crashes and never quite handled as well as stock but was a beautiful machine as was set up. Unfortunately sold it as it ran open stacks, had no speedo drive and those rattling calipers.

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Yes, Just standard rotors at the time but not like you could take any material off to get them flat being clad as they were.
 
Still loving the bike and racking up the miles. Yesterday did 276 miles as it was to hot out to trail ride. Did the Cascade trifecta... Mt Hood, Mt Adams, Mt St Helens. fun. BTW as I become more comfortable the reputation for this bike as a wheelie monster is starting to become obvious. Roll on wheelies up to about 50 mph are fun and EZ.

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Very cool Kelly. Was just at that overlook last week. Just purchased my first road bike (Fz1)ever.....after riding dirt only for 40 years. Can't believe I made the move. I'm still afraid of the pavement and cars, but getting used to it.




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Johnrg said:
He was making rotors back then and a distributor of parts... He may have been the Dymag distributor at the time. My GPz was a track bike but with stock fork that had Dymags and custom hangers for the lockheed style calipers. Ran an 18 instead of the 19 stocker as well. A moriwaki kitted motor with CR carbs, kerker, etc... A few crashes and never quite handled as well as stock but was a beautiful machine as was set up. Unfortunately sold it as it ran open stacks, had no speedo drive and those rattling calipers.

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awesome ass moriwaki kaw!
 
Xriderdown said:
Just purchased my first road bike (Fz1)
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I had one of those but mine was a few years older with the steel frame. Was so stinking fast so EZ I sold it swear to not have street bikes. Then this Buell dropped in my lap. the FZ1 felt like it would do 90 in first and was stopped at 60. This Buell is more fun for me under 70 which is good. Have not had it over 100 where the FZ1 would do 100 by accident and feel like 50. Have fun, ride like no one sees you and super defensively. See ya out there.
 
Kelly, I told you it was a wheelie monster. like riding a 500lb dirt bike. and it stops too.
 
Looks good in red. ;)
I would have kept mine if I had better roads to ride it on and a cooler climate.
When it was fun it was VERY fun, but not the best choice for hot/flat Florida.

One of the very few 2010's that got out before they shut the factory down.
 
Some good looking bikes. I inherited a black S1 with the steel frame and the big motor. Its a hoot. Congrats on the new scoot Ride. Buells are a lot of fun.
 
Mike Kay said:
Some good looking bikes. I inherited a black S1 with the steel frame and the big motor. Its a hoot. Congrats on the new scoot Ride. Buells are a lot of fun.
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Um….where are the photo's?! S1's are badass!! Sorry for your loss, but congrats on the gain. I just wound up with a Triumph Bonneville the same way unfortunately. I am very thankful for the Triumph and I will keep it forever, but I am tired of loosing family members.
 
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