• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     FE = 4st Enduro & FC = 4st 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

FE/FC Tired Of Melted Riding Pants.

Dirtdame

Dirtdame

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Like the title says....I'm tired of melting my expensive riding pants on the exhaust in a low speed tip over. If you are as short as I am, most likely you will have plenty of those when you try to stop and miss your mark for the high spot to plant your foot on. I am baffled that Japanese manufacturers always seem to put a heat shield on all their 4 stroke dirt models, but Euro bikes never get them. These shields don't add much cost or weight or ruin the esthetics of the machine.
I found a universal heat shield on-line for 25 bucks.

 
I don't have a photo to show, but I made mine out of 1/8" steel solid bars cut, bent and welded together with 2 mounting tabs on them. I used stainless hose clamps to fasten to header pipe. Then painted it all black. It has worked great for 5 years now with no issues. I did this as there were no heat shields available for my 2013 TC449 at the time and after burning through a good set of riding pants on my first ride on the bike. It only took about an hour to make. Cost was about $2.00 for the clamps.

Paw Paw
 
It's not just a short person problem, my 6'8" son has many pairs of pants with burned patches, they are just lower down on the shin. If a 4 stroke race engine is running correctly the exhaust temp is around 1025-1050 degrees F so you're pretty much riding a branding iron. Leather is really the best most practical material to use, I'm not sure who thought nylon was a good idea. Having melted plastic in a 3rd degree burn is no picnic.
 
I like the rounded oval and edge design of these newer ones. I used to use a CF one that was more of a rectangle plate style and sometimes my pants would get caught on it.
 
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