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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Mirrors...Whaddaya Got?

RDTCU said:
Haha, just how many times have you been down??? :p
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I think 4 times on tarmac, I'm riding on parking lots like 50% of the time. And I only crashed there.. the last highsider while backing it in did a gooood hit on the handguard. The other 2 were lowsiders.. the other one was just overspeeding the turn and hitting a curbstone, had to get a new speed sensor for my Koso speedometer after that :lol:

Yeah.. hitting the ground on farm roads with like 70km/h when you suddenly encounter sand(!) in a turn doesn't do much damage though :D It just sucks to clean the air filter after that.. and your sand filled boots :rolleyes:
 
Ketek said:
I think 4 times on tarmac, I'm riding on parking lots like 50% of the time. And I only crashed there.. the last highsider while backing it in did a gooood hit on the handguard. The other 2 were lowsiders.. the other one was just overspeeding the turn and hitting a curbstone, had to get a new speed sensor for my Koso speedometer after that :lol:

Yeah.. hitting the ground on farm roads with like 70km/h when you suddenly encounter sand(!) in a turn doesn't do much damage though :D It just sucks to clean the air filter after that.. and your sand filled boots :rolleyes:
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Haha the closest I've come is a few good near-highsides, like you said, backing it in hard, or stepping it out on the way out. One of the best things about an SM over a streetbike is the fact that you have some droop travel, so a minor slip isn't an instant drop or highside. I once found a smeared opossum in the middle of a blind sweeper in the mountains when I was almost knee-dragging. Stepped out on me pretty good, but I stayed in it and didn't try to pop up, and it bit and kept going. If I HAD dropped it or highsided, it would have been off a pretty good piece of mountain...
 
Now for something completely different...
from http://www.bugeyes.com/


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Never tried them, but an interesting alternative.

- JJ
 
johngil said:
KTM w/ short arm. Not great for on road visibility, but I didn't care for the long arm.
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Was just searching for mirrors for my 310 (doubletake does list Husky now) and got an email from Natalie at Doubletake. I asked whether the long or short was preferred and she felt the long better. Decisions, decisions... Have these held up well and would you still get the short arm if you purchased again? Appreciate the feedback.
http://www.doubletakemirror.com/
 
The mirrors are great and holding up well. I am running the longer arm for better rear view.
I would run the short arm if I only was concerned with staying legal.
 
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