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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

ZipTy Shark Fins - THE Factory Choice!

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ZipTy Shark Fins are recognized by the top Factory and privateer racers around the world for being the BEST rear rotor protection you can get for your bike. Factory Husqvarna and KTM won't use anything else. If that's not enough to convince you, here's a couple thousand words, by none other than Graham Jarvis himself...GrJarvisSharkFin.1.jpg
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Constructed with 78,000psi Zicral, light like titanium, and tougher than A56 steel. It's also the only design with a replaceable fin. The other guys use lower grade aluminium alloys that are easier and cheaper to machine, but the trade off is a weaker product that just won't stand up to the abuse. The other brands are just cheap knock offs.:thumbsdown:
 
Material Properties Data: 7075-T6 Aluminum. 7075 has been sold under various trade names including "Zicral", "Ergal", and "Fortal Constructal".
History

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Due to its high strength, low density, thermal properties, and its ability to be highly polished, 7075 is widely used in mold tool manufacture. This alloy has been further refined into other 7000 series alloys for this application, namely 7050 and 7020.
 
Sorry, they aren't available for the Italian bikes any longer. I just checked to see if there were any before replying.

I really wanted one for my 449 too, but there just wasn't enough interest to justify a run so they were never made.
 
There was interest since 2012. I assume it was only the carrier that was unique but they have the program. So a setup issue. Then a call whether to support the red Huskies. At least everyone here may have bought them. Water over the bridge. Our bikes still ride on, sans ZT shark fins. I know Mike from Alaska still wants one when released ;-)
 
WARNING! THE FOLLOWING IMAGE MAY BE UNSUITABLE FOR SOME VIEWERS. THIS IMAGE MAY CAUSE UNCONTROLLABLE URGES TO DROP WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND CALL ZIPTY RACING TO GET ONE TOO. Parental Discretion is advised.

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This is a custom order of the SF115 for your 13-16 FE or 03-16 KTM with the "small" axle.
 
There was a run of them made for the Italian 2 Strokes (I've got one) but they are all gone. It would require a big group of people to justify another run. Sorry, I wish I had a better answer for ya.
 
Moose used to make one that just bolted onto caliper. I have one on mine. Not as strong as could break alloy mounts but mines been on for 6-7 years & no issue. Msr maybe make one too. Got mine through Halls
 
Huskynoobee said:
There was a run of them made for the Italian 2 Strokes (I've got one) but they are all gone. It would require a big group of people to justify another run. Sorry, I wish I had a better answer for ya.
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When was this? Were we notified? or would these not have fit the 310? :rolleyes:
 
That was years ago from what I know. A few people convinced Ty to make a batch. I know Ajaxauto got 2, one of which I inherited with his 250, and there's a 300 in the classified section with one.

You, myself, and others tried to get Tinken to expand the line for the 4 strokes, but it just never happened. If I could get a list of committed customers who would want them, I will try my best to see if Ty would go for it. 7602 has made runs of discontinued parts if there are enough customers. I'm going to dig through boxes just in case I can find a replacement fin for mine next time I'm there.
 
Thought maybe this was a quick, recent, on the sly, production run ;) No worries. The 310 may be around awhile so good parts always worth acquiring.
 
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