• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

whats in ya back pack

S

spyshadow

Husqvarna
AA Class
What equipment, gadgets, track side "stuff" do you have in your back pack to get you back home?
Every one has the basics, tool kit, tire levers, cable ties, tow rope..... etc.
Whats the item, the Holy Grail, you don't leave home without??

I've been doing a service on the crf (have a ride coming up and the Husky is mid operation) I have electronic fans on both sides of the radiators, one of which is burnt out, I decided to remove and delete the wiring. Did all that and fired the old girl up, all good for about 45 seconds then coolant started spitting out. Found a rub through, where the frame of the fan had ruptured one of the core fins, too close to the reservoir to solder with out making it worse, had a look through the shelves and found a tube of Selleys multipurpose KNEAD-IT polymer 2 part mix, cut off a small section of product (cleaned the area first, and roughed it up a bit with some emery cloth and flat blade screwdriver) Mixed the two parts together, moulded it around the fracture, 5 min later passed the pressure test and ready to rock. I could easily have done this on the side of the track. As long as I could get to water again.

I also then tried it on a jam tin, poked a hole in the bottom, repaired it and then put fuel in the tin.
No problem.

Resealed the tube, now takes pride of place in my kit.

This is now my favorite "pull me out of the shite" stuff

spyshadow
 
honestly, not enough but living on the east coast the riding is a bit different vs the west coast / and I usually ride with my son
multi - tool
cell phone
water
ID
spare spark plugs and appropriate sized spark plug wrench (for the 2 strokes)
small screw driver to adjust air screw (for the 2 strokes)
Camelbak Mule - really a very good pack, love it / always rates well in reviews
 
All of the usual stuff, but two of my "holy grail" items are a roll of self-fusing silicone tape, and a 2m/70cm handheld radio.
 
My must haves are a chain joiner(which I've never used on my own bike, always my mates) and a 20mm long cut off section of 12mm Allen key. I can use this in my 12mm spanner to undo the TE449 in-hex front axle nut without needing a socket and heavy ratchet.
 
Zip ties, vise grips, spark plug, 8mm/10mm wrench, plug wrench, electrical tape, a few bolts and nuts, chain link and water.
 
In addition to above-referenced items:
  • Quick Steel
  • Emergency poncho (the plastic-bag kind)
  • Lighter
  • Anti-fog wipes
As for tools - I do most of my maintenance at home with the tools I carry when I ride. That's a good way to make sure you carry everything you're likely to need.
 
JonXX said:
All of the usual stuff, but two of my "holy grail" items are a roll of self-fusing silicone tape, and a 2m/70cm handheld radio.
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Baofeng radio is your remote friend. Easy to set up for local district gmrs and rescue radio for personal/pit crew use. Handy for those 100mi+ races
 
Yep that's exactly what I (and a few of us) have, with upgraded whip antennas and speaker mics. Our club is buying 6 of them for safety equipment with a grant from Oregon Parks and Recreation. Which reminds me, I need to make myself a repeater/frequency flash card.
 
Sometimes I carry one cold beer on my camel back.. good for the soul after a hard technical section.
 
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