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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Sorry have to disagree, without wrap around protection they are just a stick guard and please explain how the Front mounted 'Spigot Guard' would have prevented the damage below (image from Trail Tech Ad), which has clearly been damaged in a downward/forward manner? Come on we are not all mugs ....did the camera man do that? Certainly has the bling factor though if that's your bag. From an engineering point of view a wrap around guard incorporating rod cross bracing front and back such as the 7602 pictured provides the greatest strength with the least restriction to air flow no matter what brand it is, the pressed flat bracing style's pictured in some posts have far less strength and much higher flow restriction (overcome with a excellent Trail Tech Fan of-course) but are much cheaper to produce and easier to fit. Other examples of solid cross rod wrap around designs that come to mind are Unabiker and Force. The Force guards also generally have a support at the rear angled across to the frame on perimeter frame bikes such as TM, Honda etc. On conventional down tube frames such as Beta etc this angled brace has a pad to bear on the tank. All helps in that oh f@&k moment!You are all wrong, there Trail Tech ones are the best
Here is the left side of the FE 501 and it shows that the spigot comes out of the bottom. So a guard could help or just inflict damage. ? Who knows? It comes off the bottom of the right side as well.
On the design side of things have you considered vertical ventilation slots as opposed to diagonal, the reason for mentioning this is minimalising that "1 in a million type event". Over here our bush is almost all hardwood, and its just that - hard, and a stick small enough to pass through those ventilation slots is plenty strong enough to take out a core tube. Properly spaced vertical slots minimise the chance of this happening as does having a healthy forward set from the radiator, which you have nailed nicely by the way. I know ripping fins can also damage the core tubes, but is less likely to be a 'game over event', particularly for the well prepared.
