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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
I used the rear wheel from a Kawasaki Ninja 250. Cush drive, sprocket and disc included.
Needed new bearings and spacers.
Works ok so far.
Everything mechanical (not body work or electrical) seems to be the same as the Italian 630. My uneducated guess is it will work. Could this mean that SWM ACTUALLY remedied the self destruction clutch design? I sure hope so!
What bearings and spacers?
Did you make the spacers?
Do you have drawings of them?
Sorry, it was done by a shop. So not sure what bearing they used and the spacer dimension. It's still running the husky oem axle.
I'll ask them and update
So I asked the shop. For the wheel bearing, the guy said they used the bearing off of the gearbox axle bearing from a scooter called Honda Vario (pic attached). Dunno if you can source one where you are.
Sorry if that doesn't help
I had Woodys make up a cush hub for my 630, but if using the SWM parts I would be tempted to have the swing arm milled slightly for the larger SWM axle. I bet the swing arm opening is the same as in the TE630.
I inquired of the SWM dealer in Northern CA about such a change, and the answer was don't know, we don't do work like that, and then no answers at all. I
'm interested to see how it goes. Please do keep us informed.
Where did you order the parts from?
Thanks much. I'll check it out. Did you order the hub for the Superdual? Actually, could you tell me what you ordered (I'm looking at the partsonline now, and am not sure.)
I have 4000 miles on my bike, nearly all highway, and am wondering about wear on the clutch spring washers. How long do they last? I wonder if the SWM uses better ones, or the same but they last with a cush hub.
Hi. I ordered it from Italy, www.evolutionbike.it
I just test fitted the hub. Fits perfectly , and sprocket, rotor mounts and lines up fine.
Now just have to have it laced up to a rim.
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Just a point to bear in mind:
I recently did a cush hub on my 2021 KTM 500 EXC.
Initially I thought I would just need a cush hub that matched the stock KTM rim.
However I was told by Haan, the cush hub supplier, that I would need a special rim for the cush hub
for the simple reason that the space taken by the cush hub on the wheel hub means that the left and
right side spokes are slightly closer together on the wheel hub vs the stock hub.
This means that the spokes will approach the rim at a slightly different angle than stock and therefore
the nipple indents in the rim need to be machined differently to match the new spoke angles.
Based on the above you may need to get the superdual rim to match the cush hub.