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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Up-Tite Throttle Tube

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Husqvarna
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Just got this in the mail. George likes to send packages COD. He is definitely Old School. I called him and ordered it and he needed the ID of the handle bar because he needs to machine the insert for the end of the handle bar (silver thing in the picture). Basically the insert has a barring on the end of so the end of the throttle tracks nice and smooth. After cracking my throttle tube in Baja, hs showed me the one on his bike and let me feel it and it feels WAY smoother than the stocker. I'll let you all know what I think about it after this weekend's ride.

-Blake
 

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You will love it! It takes all the numbness out of the throttle hand. Just be careful and grab to much of it....that tube will throw you for a loop.
 
It removes vibration? Sorry if that's a dumb question.

How much is it if you don't mind me asking?
 
gandalf;23326 said:
It removes vibration? Sorry if that's a dumb question.

How much is it if you don't mind me asking?
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drastically removes vibs.

I cannot remember the exact amount. Call George and he will fill you in on the rest. This tube is a work of art.
 
fitness2go;23352 said:
Can you use it with wrap around hand guards?
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Ask George...he was working on something. I removed the bearing on mine and the tube is still better on vibes than the stocker. I cut the last 1/8" off mine and it works great. Maybe he can sell it without the bearing and let you do the mod yourself.
 
I would think a bushing and sleeve with the through bolt would work with hand guards. Looks like it is tapped in the center already or is that for mounting it?

Nice looking part and makes sence.
 
I have a bearing tube, not Georges, and use hand guards. I also use A-TEK threaded insert in the bars for mounting the guards, I don't use the bushing and use a bolt in it's place. I run a shim on the inside of the center race and a bushing with a flanged end on the outside for the guard to bolt against. It pinches the center race and allows the tube to ride on the outer race.

You can actually put a bearing in any throttle tube. I used one with the stock plastic tube, but you'll get the most if it has a teflon or delrin bushing toward the cable end.
 
I was able to keep the bearing arrangement when I put my Zeat X3 handgaurds on but it took a bit of creative engineering to make it all work. I love the throttle tube, not so much because of the vibration reduction (610's don't vibrate to much) , what I like is that the ramp it better suited to me. Before I put the Uptite tube on I almost had to grab the throttle in two steps, otherwise my wrist was over extending to maintain full throttle and since I like being at full throttle for lengthy periods it just works better for me.:D
 
I have a brand new unused George tube identical to the one pictured on my shelf beside the computer.

Not to jack a thread, I'd barter it for something...perhaps an air filter?
 
This weekend was AWESOME! I just got my bike back together after having the suspension redone by Les at LTR. I completely went through the bike while the suspension was off, lubed everything up and cleaned everything, etc. The new Throttle tube worked AMAZING! I couldn't believe the difference after putting it on. The throttle is sooooo smooth now and because of the way George designed it I can go from idle to WOT with the flick of my wrist. Between the new throttle tube and the new suspension I have fallen in love with this bike all over again. When we got back last night, I had to convince my girlfriend to go out again with me next weekend. I really had a blast on my "new" bike.

-Blake
 
Someone has to walk me through putting this thing on with my wrap around Cycra's! Sounds great Blake and thanks for the heads up.

David
 
David,

I'm not sure how that would work. I'm not running hand guards right now. I think you would have to loose the bearing and cut off the end of the tube. Even though the center of the insert is tapped to hold the bearing, It's not a very big hole for the bolt to hold the guard on, and I think one good whack with a tree/rock/ground on that hand guard, could really screw up some stuff and possibly leave you with a stuck throttle to get back to the truck. Give George a call. He may be able to do something custom for you. The big difference is the shortened distance from idle to WOT. It took about 30 seconds of riding for me to get used to it, but now I have precision control.

-Blake
 
Have any of you guys ridden in tight tech stuff with that tube yet( I'm talking about 1st gear mud covered rock zones and going over 2 foot dia logs and scraping your handle bars going between trees everywhere you go. Thats what I consider tight). It would probably be OK on smaller bikes in the tight stuff, but it seems it would be really hard to control a 450 in the tight stuff with that throttle tube.
 
scoobywrx05;23872 said:
Have any of you guys ridden in tight tech stuff with that tube yet( I'm talking about 1st gear mud covered rock zones and going over 2 foot dia logs and scraping your handle bars going between trees everywhere you go. Thats what I consider tight). It would probably be OK on smaller bikes in the tight stuff, but it seems it would be really hard to control a 450 in the tight stuff with that throttle tube.
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No no no, you misunderstood what we were saying. It's not just a short throw throttle, it's the way that George has it ramped that makes it work so well. It's a non linear throttle. The ramp starts off slower than the factory and ends up faster acting by the time you reach about half throttle so you actually have much more control at smaller throttle openings. Hope that makes sense to everyone.
 
fitness2go;23862 said:
Someone has to walk me through putting this thing on with my wrap around Cycra's! Sounds great Blake and thanks for the heads up.

David
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I cut the last 1/8" off mine. The end of the throttle tube needs to be indexed a little. It works great and after two races I have had no issues.
 
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