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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Round two of the "other" carb types - Lectron

Motosportz said:
if your serious I will do that.
Click to expand...
I was just kidding around but I would be happy to be the guiny pig and try it out. I do nice write ups and I'm pretty open minded. I've used a Posa-Fuel before with no AC pump on a 350 thumper and it worked out OK after some pretty pain staking tuning of it. The Lectron should be much less trouble to get dialed in and with the guys at the factory doing their part to set things up I think it might be a good choice.
 
Joe Chod said:
Dwight~Rudder~GS~175~1975~ISDT.jpg


Lectron carb secret testing hidden by riders leg
Click to expand...

LOL, Winning a ISDT Qualifier in the 175 Class against Rod Bush. This bike was a 1975 6 speed with a 30mm Bing. My 1976 7 speed 125 had a 30mm Lectron.
 
Vinduro said:
LOL, Winning a ISDT Qualifier in the 175 Class against Rod Bush. This bike was a 1975 6 speed with a 30mm Bing. My 1976 7 speed 125 had a 30mm Lectron.
Click to expand...


penton GS no?
Thought it was at a qualifier in 75 since I saw no skunk stripes
 
Joe Chod said:
penton GS no?
Thought it was at a qualifier in 75 since I saw no skunk stripes
Click to expand...

Rod was on a Penton GS175 . The event was early 1976. Before we got the 7 speeders. I had only ridden once on the prototype GS175/7a in early Sept 1975. This was my next to last ride on this bike.
 
Vinduro said:
I have long said that these type carbs are the best comprimise between carbs and EFI. FI without the complexity and simplier than a carb.
Click to expand...

I'm starting to see the light ... These devices are better than the main stream CARBS we are using today and for the last ~40 yrs ...

This is a meaningless question really, but why did the bike companies not adopt them on all their bikes?
 
ray_ray said:
I'm starting to see the light ... These devices are better than the main stream CARBS we are using today and for the last ~40 yrs ...

This is a meaningless question really, but why did the bike companies not adopt them on all their bikes?
Click to expand...

There is a bunch of back story on all this (metering rod carbs going way back) that is very interesting. To much to go into but interesting stuff. As for factories they are hard to get to change, very focused, don't like out of the box, have strong supplier agreements, etc. . Smaller factories (TM, GG, Sherco, Beta etc.) and non japanese factories are more flexible it seems and you can gain some inroads there. Marketing is probably a big part of it. You have to force this stuff on OEM and you might have to sell it inexpensively so like everything in life it is a trade off. I have been offered some seemingly sweet deals for biz but when you look at the whole picture is it really good? Sometime the math to work ratio is skewed. On top of all this metering rod evolution progresses because it is smaller and USA derived. Tinker away. My opinion on the matter. I like the carbs, like how they work, simple and effective, like that they are made here, just do, not found a down side yet. Can hardly wait to ride again.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top