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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

New To Me 610, But Old Tires!

S

Spinman

Husqvarna
AA Class
Rule of thumb is tires only last 4-5 years no matter how much tread is left. But these look so good! Stored inside a garage in Carlsbad CA. They show no sign of deteroration. I've ridden it on a 30 mile loop near my house
, then took the pics.
 

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I agree with mekanik- I wouldn’t be concerned as long as (in-person) you’re not seeing dry rot cracking or anything else unusual. Also agree w/ him on envying that bike (it’s what I was in the hunt for way back when I bought my 630 new.)

Now not as sure about your rule of thumb (“only last 4-5K no matter how much tread is left.”) As you know tread does impact how many years you’ll get. :) I still can’t get more than 2K out of a rear, but accept that’s on me (too much pavement and not easy on the gas. :)
 
Thanks for the opinion. and compliments on the bike. Wanted a 630 for the FI, but this is 20# lighter and had all the right farkles. Also concerned about this being the right bike and one with parts availability etc. I'm going to be riding carefully until I get used to it anyway. (and until I get more skill!) So I plan to keep an eye on the tires and not stray too far in case one of them gives up. I did a fly n buy in November for a tiger 800 and THOSE were seriously dry rotted. Had to go straight to cycle gear in Vegas.
I'm looking at motoz Adv tires, any experience with those?
 
Hey, the air boot, (intake side of carb) has some cracks. is that an available part? Know if SWM is the same?
 
I believe a fellow over on ADV rider (thumper forum) is getting some made of 3D printed.
I had a set of Motoz ADV 140 for my 630. The tire is too wide to fit without hitting the chain, wider than a 908.20200508_182957[35821].jpg
 
The motoz website said something about using a 130 where a 140 is factory advised. So that sounds like good advice then if they are really oversized. Funny you mentioned the 908, I was looking at those as an alternative to the Motoz. Did the 908s in a 140 fit on the TE? Or should I be looking at a 130 in that as well?
 
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