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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

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Got my Motostrano sliders today (front & rear). Very bling! Customs charged me a packet ... but worth it. Front only took minutes to install and the rear block sliders are a big improvement on the OE setup. Thought I´d better do it after my last fall. They fit the 630 perfectly.
 
Good to hear, mine are sitting on the porch waiting for me to get home, along with some peg sliders and better bar sliders...

I've done a good bit of peg scrubbing, hopefully the peg pucks will make them last a bit longer :p
 
I was lucky. As long as you fit the two blingy shims the right way around, the sliders stear clear of the forks on the SM.
 
Took me about 30min to get them on and set my chain tension :)
(I'm not seeing how they wouldn't fit a TE up front btw, jtemple... :confused:)

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The TE axle length is longer. The bolt included in the kit is not long enough.

Easy enough to fix, get some threaded rod and cut to length.

The right side spacer also does not recess into the fork leg like it does on the SM. The axle bolt on the TE sits flush against the outside of the fork leg:

The left side fits just fine.

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jtemple said:
The TE axle length is longer. The bolt included in the kit is not long enough.

Easy enough to fix, get some threaded rod and cut to length.

The right side spacer also does not recess into the fork leg like it does on the SM. The axle bolt on the TE sits flush against the outside of the fork leg:

The left side fits just fine.
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Hmmm, I see that now, I didn't realize that the RIGHT side fork end was that much different than the SM, figured they'd be the same since the caliper is mounted on the left fork end... Like you said, just find some threaded rod I guess, or call SME, I bet they could work something out and get you a longer rod.

ETA: For it to be stronger, though, you should probably have the right side spacer turned down to slip into the axle a bit. If you could get it down to just a lip, you might have enough threads to get the slider on the rod that you already have...

Take some measurements and drop the spacer in an envelope and I'll turn it down for you if you want :D
 
I have the longer rod already. What I need is a spacer that fits.

I already have the measurements. You can turn it down?
 
Yeah, I've got a benchtop lathe for little projects. Just let me know the thickness that you want for the major diameter (lip thickness) and the inside diameter of the axle. I should be able to do it without touching the visible anodizing.
 
RDTCU said:
Yeah, I've got a benchtop lathe for little projects. Just let me know the thickness that you want for the major diameter (lip thickness) and the inside diameter of the axle. I should be able to do it without touching the visible anodizing.
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I think I'll still have to use the longer bolt I picked up, but that's easy enough to cut. I'll get it all fitted up this morning.
 
Installed!

Included bolt still too short.
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Got my own threaded rod. It is not stainless, but coated. Hopefully it holds up decently.
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Measure twice, cut once!
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All done.
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organ donor said:
Now all we´ve got to do is wait to see whether they´re effective. (Who wnats to be first?)
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Not me! Been there and walked away; don't want to do it again.

Really, on the TE, I'm not sure the forks will even hit the ground. Mine didn't when I went down. The axle sliders are cheap insurance, though. Certainly cheaper than new forks.

The rear axle most defnitely hits the ground. I ground mine off pretty good.
 
I dropped my SMS in the weeds once when i hit some wet grass. The sliders dug up in the mud. Not the same as asphault, but they didn't snap off :P
 
jtemple said:
Not me! Been there and walked away; don't want to do it again.

Really, on the TE, I'm not sure the forks will even hit the ground. Mine didn't when I went down. The axle sliders are cheap insurance, though. Certainly cheaper than new forks.

The rear axle most defnitely hits the ground. I ground mine off pretty good.
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My bars are always the first to hit the deck and have (as yet) never damaged much else. I bend the bars back in shape with a length of gas pipe but had to change the clamp once (warped).
 
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