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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

My scrambler project

Motosportz

Motosportz

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I've had this bike laying around for a few years. Got it for $200 with a plate and title. Did not run. Took about 2 hours to make it run and runs great. Got tired of it sitting around and thought about it and realised it would be silly easy to build a scrambler type bike out of and i have a lot of the parts needed. Hope to have it rolling for summer cruising and exploring when i have a few hours etc.

what I started with...

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2 hours later...

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mtdirtbag said:
Here; you can have two!!
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They're asking $2599
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I think the yellow 1978 Yamaha TT's look the best. This one is real nice. It needs a '79 aluminum swing arm to go with that disk front end.

Kelly with your TT, with a plate, I would polish it up and list it for $1k, someone may haggle you down to $750-$800. A big bore plated thumper can fetch some $, but you know that.
 
Thats a nice TT.

XLEnduroMan said:
Kelly with your TT, with a plate, I would polish it up and list it for $1k, someone may haggle you down to $750-$800. A big bore plated thumper can fetch some $, but you know that.
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Well yeah but the exhaust was a rusted mess, the fenders are gone or crap, the seat foam is gone, the tank is a dented mess... really there is a good frame and motor and suspension is fine. Which led me to hack it and do it up. Going to be a really easy project for the most part then can make it real nice down the road if I like it. Figured it might be a fun back road exploring bike of which there is a lot of right from my house. Want to get a disk brake on the front so might be doing a swap there. It was doing nothing and just thought it would be a fun and funky project. I have ridden it around, should make a great small street bike. I had a mint SR500 back in the day and this is faster for sure. Motorcycles are fun.
 
had a tt for a few years...easy starter, great torque. very odd, confused handling..i dont think the tt knows if its supposed to be on the street or off. i had mine set up with first gen husky ohlins, but it really needed a leading axle front end...other than the odd steering was a great bike and didnt feel heavy even tho it was..
mine had a mikuni vm swapped on (always had lots of those around) and pulled well, dont wait around to get different forks on. i had an offer i couldnt refuse before i had the chance to realize my tt dream..
 
I had an orange tank TT 500 and graded out a short track here on the farm and had a blast with it play flat tracking. They have a big following in the vintage flat track classes but the steering head angle needs to be tightened up for best results.
Our friend here Les Tinus (LTR suspension) has a TT500 project bike with a very rare Dick Mann frame.
 
My buddy and i built a 84 TT 600 for moto once crazy motor hole shotted John Desoto at an AHMRA race in Texas on a full house wheelsmith 490 Maico wouldn't have believed it but i saw it twice i bet my buddy had 4k in that bike:eek: but DAMN
 
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