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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Kickstand Stretching

M

mikebru

Husqvarna
AA Class
Bought a 12 yr old Yamaha TTR-90 for my 9 yr old son.

Left peg bracket is bent I now realize. It didn't come with a kickstand.

I bought the correct one from Yamaha. However, the bike leans over at an almost 45 degree angle on the stand. I think the bent peg bracket is the culprit.

It needs about 1-1/2" to 2" added to it. Without it, the bike wants to sink in the Jersey sand.

Any good ideas? The main problem is I'm not a a welder or metal worker.

Screw a block of wood to the base plate? That's too ham and egg I think.
 
Mike take some pictures of it and post it. If I can see what the frame and foot peg looks like I may be able to help you with a solution. With out seeing it, I can not tell you whats going on here. I am a welder by trade and I hope I can offer you some advice.
 
Thanks Jersey.

I started making a simple extension bracket but then quickly saw it would be too rigged up to work well. I would need a longer spring, stops on the kickstand and new bracket. Then who knows how sturdy it would be.

So I was able to bend the mounting tab out some and that helped a little.

I bought a length of 1" square aluminum tube. Going to cut it and shape it with a grinder and bolt it under the stock stand footplate. I'll see how that works then add a base if needed to spread the load.

Thanks for the offer of help, though!
 
So here's 3/4 of the fix. Square tube bolted to the stand plate.

Haven't tried it in the dirt but the tube reduces the footprint of the stock stand.

I'll probably add a plate to spread the load and then spray everything black.image.jpg image.jpg image.jpg
 
Looks like a simple enough fix with out straightening what ever caused the stand to roll up. If it works and it's does not cause you a major heart ache, it's all good.
 
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