• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

  • 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

?? Who's Workstand Works Wonders ??

i think he wanted something comparable to a stand you would lift the bike onto . eg a swappa crate, but a lazy mans one . not table lifts guys . doesnt fit in the ute too well
 
mnb said:
The scissor lifts are nice, but the minimum height is often a bit too much, you have to grunt lift it onto the stand.

The ATV jacks are great if you don't need to bring it with you when riding.

Table jacks are great for major work, but you need a jack to put on the table if you want to remove wheels. Or a different stand for just that, but sometimes you want to work on the bike at a height with the wheels off. They make scissor jacks just for this purpose, but they aren't cheap.
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I can relate to the min height issue. I got my Torin to get my Road Star of the floor for oil changes.I put a Progressive spring on the rear shock to make the ride stiffer and get rid of the sag from it's own weight. I notice when I changed the oil last spring the shocked sagged enough I had to unweight the rear and have my daughter roll the jack under it. Not supposed to be a 2 person job when you have the "tools" I am hoping the Craftman sits lower. Will find out in a month or so
 
1982 XC 430 said:
Hello, I might be a bit off topic here but I see a lot of Pictures with Bikes on Workstands that have a foot jack to lift the bike. I think I am in the market for one of my own, as I'm getting to lazy to lift my bikes onto the stand that I have. So dose any stand stand out as a better one ? I would rather pay more for a good one than get a good deal on a cheap one. As I have some XC-WR Frames and they have the added bar below dose any one work better there. Yes I can Fab a couple of blocks to work like I did on the Stand I have now. Thanx....
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I have 1 similar to the what Auto has suggested but it lifts to 1300mm, they are great for the shed as once you are finished working on your bike it can be pushed out of the way even if it's still in peices, I also use it when I'm wasing the bike & is probably the best thing I've bought to help me in the shed.
 
silverstreakNZ said:
i think he wanted something comparable to a stand you would lift the bike onto . eg a swappa crate, but a lazy mans one . not table lifts guys . doesnt fit in the ute too well
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True some of these are a little off my original question but I am interested in them all. As a matter of fact since my original post I have built an addapter to mount a Dirt Bike frame to my Engine Stand. This I am useing to build a bike from the frame up, and everything is very accesable, when the bike is complete I will have to lift the bike off the stand with my overhead lift, and then bolt the Foot Pegs on. So I have built a stand that is off my original topic, and yet to buy one that is.
 
My P-12 lift stand showed up today and it looks good. It went into service right away. If there is anything I don't like about its that its frustrating to know that somebody can build it in a foreign country for less than what the materials would cost me if I wanted to build it myself. Thanx for everybody's advice.....
 
310huskyTE said:
i have one of these.:banghead:
http://www.mastersofmx.com/drc-hc2-lift-stand-bike-stand-p-1297.html

Absolute piece of crap do not buy one :thumbsdown:
i must add that i did not buy it from that website
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I agree: these are a wobbly POS and will tip over with your bike on it, especially if you try to lift to higher limit of the stand.
I modded mine to make it more stable with some scrap lumber and tie-downs.
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What is your Scorpa set up for. Knobbies with studs on a trials bike with a seat. Is that one of those new crossover bikes. It's sweet!
 
268fords said:
What is your Scorpa set up for. Knobbies with studs on a trials bike with a seat. Is that one of those new crossover bikes. It's sweet!
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It's 10 years old, not exactly new.
Using it for winter trail riding, was out Saturday in about a foot of snow, churning up the hills.
Fun. Exhausting.
It's light and easy to ride.
Standing all the time is a bit tiring, not used to that.
(don't let the seat fool you; it's nice for a rest with your feet on the ground but I can't ride sitting on it)
142 cc of blistering power... actually makes decent torque for such a tiny thumper.
Here's a vid from couple weeks ago:
View: http://youtu.be/zJyX5_BOexs
 
Man that's cool. My 510 would have been trying to swing her butt around to show me her back tire. What a tractor
 
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