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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Short Levers?

So if I wanted to source levers from George, and I need them shipped, how do I pay him, out of curiosity?

I know he's a cash-only guy and I have to call him on the telephone. Do I just mail him a check?

EDIT: Just going to give him a call and see what he says.
 
Ok, calling George was a bad idea. Great guy, but I'm going to go broke. :D

ARC levers, throttle tube, and he's going to make me something up to lower my rear brake lever.
 
Just ordered the levers from George. Strange transaction - gave him my information, then I asked how to pay him. 'When you get the parts send me a check'. Wow, he has my business for life.
 
Travis Shrey said:
Just ordered the levers from George. Strange transaction - gave him my information, then I asked how to pay him. 'When you get the parts send me a check'. Wow, he has my business for life.
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Yep, same thing he did to me. He's old school. "A handshake and a man's word is how I do business", he said.
 
Travis Shrey said:
Just ordered the levers from George. Strange transaction - gave him my information, then I asked how to pay him. 'When you get the parts send me a check'. Wow, he has my business for life.
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how much were you quoted? i have sent an email but no reply as yet. do you know if he deals with O/S orders?
 
Xcuvator said:
Have you looked at making a new eccentric adjuster with more offset?
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Just a new eccentric won't do it. You also need a shorter clevis. kirbybikes did one himself and has a pretty good writeup here: http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/630-rear-brake-foot-pad-adjustment.23305/

I want to see what George sends me for this foot pad. Something that just bolts on would be my preference. If I don't like it, I'll do what kirbybikes did.

bensl said:
how much were you quoted? i have sent an email but no reply as yet. do you know if he deals with O/S orders?
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If you want something from George, you have to call him. He's old school. (714) 540-2920
 
jtemple said:
Just a new eccentric won't do it. You also need a shorter clevis. kirbybikes did one himself and has a pretty good writeup here: http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/630-rear-brake-foot-pad-adjustment.23305/

I want to see what George sends me for this foot pad. Something that just bolts on would be my preference. If I don't like it, I'll do what kirbybikes did.
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I see what you mean.
A modified clevis wouldn't be hard to do. The thing about a lowered foot pad is that the edge of your boot could still contact and push the arm that the pad bolts to?
Unless he's talking about a different arm altogether.
I'm sure he has it figured out.
 
Xcuvator said:
I see what you mean.
A modified clevis wouldn't be hard to do. The thing about a lowered foot pad is that the edge of your boot could still contact and push the arm that the pad bolts to?
Unless he's talking about a different arm altogether.
I'm sure he has it figured out.
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He was just talking about a lower footpad. I do know what you mean about my boot catching the arm.
 
jtemple said:
He was just talking about a lower footpad. I do know what you mean about my boot catching the arm.
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If I recall without going and looking the foodpad is rivetted on so would need to drill old one off if there is a replacement?
 
BiG DoM said:
If I recall without going and looking the foodpad is rivetted on so would need to drill old one off if there is a replacement?
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Yep. Then you bolt the new one on. Countersunk bolt head on the inside, nut on the outside.
 
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