• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st Cross

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

All 2st Storing stuff under seat / in airbox

N

NWRider

Husqvarna
AA Class
I am looking for a way to carry a tube/tire irons/ axel wrench.

I tried a MSR fender pack yesterday and it made it about 3 miles before falling off and getting destroyed in my rear brake.

It looks like the rear seat has enough room in the center of it to hold a tube. I think I could just tape the levers and wrench to the subframe in the airbox.

Has anyone done this? Are there any downsides I am overlooking?

Thanks
 
The only thing I could think of is that I wouldn't want anything getting loose and tearing a hole in the air filter. I carry all that crap in my backpack/hydration pack.
 
Beerfix;38637 said:
The only thing I could think of is that I wouldn't want anything getting loose and tearing a hole in the air filter. I carry all that crap in my backpack/hydration pack.
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same here. I'd only worry about stuff getting loose. I used to carry stuff on my fenders. The tube pack on the front fender... eventually fell off. I've noticed that people in my area don't seem to do that any more so maybe I wasn't the only one?? I stopped carrying a tool pack on my rear fender after I saw what the weight does to a fender. riding behind another rider I noticed his rear fender flexed like a hinge under the weight of his fender mounted tool pack. Now I carry every thing on my back for long rides and in a fanny pack for the shorter stuff. I don't really like fanny packs though.
 
I've put a tube behind the headlight-works if you have it packed well. they sell a fanny pack for handlebars that works great for that stuff too-think it was an ATV item. taping the tire irons to the frame member lasted thru an enduro fine but I did a good tape job:)
 
Somewhere on TT there is a post where a guy used a pvc tube, capped the ends and wrapped his irons, tube, tools inside and used a hose clamp to mount it high on the front of his uptite skid plate. I can't seem to find it though. I like the idea of that location though as it's accessible and the weight is low.
 
I zip tie the irons and axle nut wrench to the sub-frame under the seat and a patch kit in the back pack. I've never carried a spare tube. I guess I like living on the edge.:D
 
I have a little rear fender pack from Wolfman. I use the straps and an extra boat strap to keep it from bouncing around. The base can be screwed on, but my tail lights help keep it on. It did great on an 80 mile trail ride.
 
Haven't thought about the fender flexing. The frame comes right up to the front of the pack.
 

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my drz did not have much fender support from the subframe. I noticed the gasser and husky seem to have a little more metal back there. I ride pretty rough terrain and did not like my butt hitting the pack either when I had to slide my rear over the back fender. Just have some one ride behind you for a bit over the roughest terrain you can find see what they say. Keep an I on the area for fatigue if you keep there. I could see the tress marks in the yellow zookie fender.
 
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