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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

What did you do to your bike today?

feef

feef

Husqvarna
A Class
As in the pics thread, I removed the keyed ignition switch and mounted a toggle switch on my nav tower instead.

I also rerouted the seat release cable so I can pop it without using the key

My boy (only 3) was fiddling with the foot pegs yesterday and as a result I spotted that they were loose. Removed the bolts on the right hand side, cleaned them up and refitted them, no problem.
Removed one bolt on the left hand side peg, the other snapped off leaving next to nothing to work with.

Lots of drilling, hammering swearing and sweating later, I had enough of the bolt removed that I could chase the hole with my 8mm tap and cut and clean the threads. I've replaced the bolts with some nice stainless steel ones, hopefully that should do the trick.

Finally, I installed some pressure release valves on the fork legs. The little screws were getting chewed up as they are right underneath the bracket for my hand-guards and were difficult to get at.


What have you done to your bike today?
 
Put a new Vee Rubber GNCC rear tire on.
Installed an ARC shorty clutch lever.
Installed a new rear sprocket...
Aaand rode the ol 1990 RT180 I rebuilt for my girlfriend.
Cosmetically its still a work in progress but mechanically its almost all new. Completely rebuilt motor, powdercoated frame, exhaust, and swingarm, new wheel/steering/swingarm bearings. Grips, chain, handle bars, rebuilt forks...etcimage.jpg
 
It was yesterday, not today, but I repaired some crash damage :(

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Kinda gave it a sideways glance as I walked past it in the garage beat to shit tired from work.
 
K5PL5 said:
Put a new Vee Rubber GNCC rear tire on.
Installed an ARC shorty clutch lever.
Installed a new rear sprocket...
Aaand rode the ol 1990 RT180 I rebuilt for my girlfriend.
Cosmetically its still a work in progress but mechanically its almost all new. Completely rebuilt motor, powdercoated frame, exhaust, and swingarm, new wheel/steering/swingarm bearings. Grips, chain, handle bars, rebuilt forks...etcView attachment 30517
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Why do you hang your bike from the ceiling? :busted:
 
Added Ironman 14/52 sprockets set, welded in autotune bung onto megabomb header and mirror polished the swing arm.
 
-Stripped the bike down to check all the wiring. Found 3 partailly frayed wires, removed the hack job wiring the PO installed and re-installed it...the right way!
-Cleaned all the connectors and added dielectric grease to each one...turns out it fixed the neutral switch blinking too!
-Notched the clutch cable bracket
-Bled the brakes (probably need a front brake rebuild. BTW, anyone know where to get that?)
-Installed a Uni breather filter on the tranny/engine breather

Finally, I took it for a rip!! :banana:
 
K5PL5 said:
haha shameless plug..
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LOL...Not really...That's exactly what it is! I actually thought about buying a cigar and using the tube as a forming base for
310huskyTE said:
Maybe you could use that liquid steel to extend your shifter tip!!:D
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doing exactly that ^^^

But, as it turns out, the county road department will be buying me a bunch of new bits and pieces to replace the crash-damaged parts. :)
 
Opened shed, looked at bike, realised I am in need of chain and sprockets, oil and filter, front tyre, checked wallet, closed shed, will come back next month.
 
After i took off the OEM exhaust and mount the FMF Q4 i also needed to change the rear spring
from 6.4 to 6.0
It is now mountet, and i will test it in the dirt this weekend. 20130823_082859.jpeg
Perfect colour to :)
 
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