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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

really cheepo moto-stand

pvduke

Husqvarna
Pro Class
got this at home depot bout 10 mins ago...a 10$ step stool. spprox 15.5" high, 11" wide. 300# rating, not sure i'd go there, but my little buddy "squirt" seems happy enough on it.

good enough for a light 2T on flat, hard ground. for a 4T double them up as they are stackable.

also could come in handy for a dead-engine start step-box. it weighs nothing and you could ride to the line with it on your arm if you were soloing. paint yer # on the inside bottom for retreval later and good to go.

just be careful if yer wrenching etc. it is NOT a metal stand. but doubled up, esp with a few pop-rivets, it would be pretty robust.

YMMV.
 

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This almost looks better than the "P.O.S" FmF stand I'm using now (sometimes I just use the milk crate and I think that is better than the FMF junk).
I might go to Home Depot after work tomorrow and try to find that stand.

Thanks
 
for those short of leg ..... it can double as a nice step stool for when your pushing the bike up into the truck
 
skid;132337 said:
for those short of leg ..... it can double as a nice step stool for when your pushing the bike up into the truck

Yes, I have a 2 step plastic folding one that I have used for that purpose for a few years now. Im not short though, I am just old....:lol:
 
Yep, some things just work out well for unknown and unwarranted reasons to the benefit of the few that stumble across such a device and see the true purpose of said device ...
 
great idea, thanks for sharing... i was looking for a stand for my pitbike this wknd but didnt want to spend the dough on a 'fancy' one... this plastic stand will work mint!
 
skid;132337 said:
for those short of leg ..... it can double as a nice step stool for when your pushing the bike up into the truck

Agreed!

And for people that have 'tall bikes', they could carry one on the trail to climb back on the bike if they every fall. :)
 
I got a bunch of these type of plastic 5gal water bottle crates,,,super cheepo---free . They are the perfect height to get 1 or both wheels up and double as carrying crates for xtra pit stuff. (just for another idea for bike lift/stand possibilties)
http://www.askplastics.com/aquamax.html

Some moto retailers sell them for @25 bucks ea
 
that aquamax 5 is badass rob.

guys- the stool i pic'd migh not be good for use with a running start- ie, helping the bike up into the truck. it's legs in the back are kinda spindly, sames why i said caution when wrenching...dont wanna see anyone take a spill loading...its better for stationary stuff. def double it up if yer gonna get physical with them.

i use an ice chest for the "midget-needs-a-leg-up-anna-runnin-start" loading method. :busted:
 
typeone;132387 said:
great idea, thanks for sharing... i was looking for a stand for my pitbike this wknd but didnt want to spend the dough on a 'fancy' one... this plastic stand will work mint!

bingo- bet that will work a treat with a pitter. lemme know how it goes. good idea!
 
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