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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Polisport Fork Guards on a 2013 TE 511

I've been searching for two days. Been to three local shops. Called the dealer I bought the bike from. No one has Husky parts. My dealer kind of snickered when I said I was looking for Husky parts. Really? It's that hard to believe we need parts? Ridiculous.

I think I'm going to try to make some from PVC pipe. Is this is a sign of things to come?
 
Just call Bills or ZipTy, or click on the sponsor list above. You'll get them just as fast as Amazon!
 
Cosmokenney said:
I've been searching for two days. Been to three local shops. Called the dealer I bought the bike from. No one has Husky parts. My dealer kind of snickered when I said I was looking for Husky parts. Really? It's that hard to believe we need parts? Ridiculous.

I think I'm going to try to make some from PVC pipe. Is this is a sign of things to come?
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Forgot to mention that. I'm trying to get them by this weekend and the window is closing for mail-order. Maybe if someone had these on Monday when I started looking I could have gone that route. But, I have a ride with a buddy of mine, this weekend, that I've been trying to get back on the bike for a long time.

I contacted Bill's they said they could get them but weren't sure when. I contacted Hall's, no reply. I looked at KTM-parts website, and their part number lookup referred me to Hall's. I looked at husky-parts website and that went nowhere.

But that's okay. My local Honda dealer (five minutes from my office) had a set of Acerbis for a CRF in stock. They look like the should fit okay, so I bought those.

For what it's worth Bill's will be my go to in the future for the TE. They have great customer service. And they are supporting the brand with their own accessories now.
 
NOTE: I should note, here, that Hall's did eventually reply, and said they have the items in stock. If I wasn't in a hurry I would have bought from them.

It's really sad that even though the forks are KYB, for Husky, the bolt pattern for the fork guard is different. Within 10 minutes of my office, I have four different motorcycle dealers: KTM/Husaberg, BMW, Yamaha/Kawasaki and Honda. All of them had fork guards for their respective brands hanging on their wall displays. I believe, with the exception of BMW, at least three or four of these brands have used KYB forks on some of their models. You would think that you could walk into any of them and get this part.
 
Pretty much standard coverage in the back. I think certain KTM ones will fit this bike. But the KTMs require fork removal to install. There is another brand, apparently, that does wrap around the back, and has a latch in back that allows easier install. It might be the Polisports. You'll just have to order the ones for the honda. Here's the Acerbis from the back:
acerbis back.jpg
 
From my notes, copy/pasted from here and elsewhere:
Honda solid white, 09 CR250F fork protectors, but you have to get the Honda
brake clamp/bolts
I want some white ones and looked up honda OEM but they were way overpriced. Now looking at the Acerbis option and more, we'll see and post the results. :cheers:
 
Huskynoobee said:
Just got some Acerbis. $31.95. Zip tied the brake line for now. Should be good to go
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Thanks! So there's some kind of tab or eye to tie to? Can't tell from the photos....

edit: okay, now I see it. I'm ordering the Polisport version, sound like they wrap around more.
 
Can you attach speedo cable in clamp too? Post up a photo if you have any boys curious to see. White looks cool
 
I used some thick zip ties. Still there 1.5 years later. BTW, I bought the Acerbis because the stock polisport guards turned to glass when cold. It just took a slow speed tip-over to shatter like a window pane.
 
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