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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TE/SM sidestand mod, hockey puck pad

B

bushwa

Husqvarna
AA Class
I have SM wheels for my TE. I had my side stand shortened so it would work with the 17's. Now it perfect when in SM mode, but the bike teeters on the edge of falling over with the TE wheels on. So, using a 99cent hockey puck, I fashioned an extension.

The shortened stand.

Traced around the foot on the puck.

cut with a saw

Trimmed with a knife.

drilled some holes and counter sunk

Drilled and tapped matching holes in the foot, and bolted on with some M6 bolts.


Haven't tried with the TE wheels yet, I may have to adjust the thickness a little and taper the bottom of the foot so it sits nice and flush, but it should work. It also a bit bigger at the bottom than the stock foot, and the puck hits the swing arm rather than the aluminium when putting the stand up, which is a bonus.
 
That's great man- exactly what I've been envisioning for some time, but have been too lazy to do it. Nice job.
 
Was originally planning on aluminium, but someone in another sides stand tread mentioned puck and stand in the same post, and a light bulb went off. The rubber was real easy to work with.
 
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