• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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Every time I ride my 630...

RDTCU

RDTCU

Husqvarna
Pro Class
I like it more...

Just had a little 'spirited jaunt' down some twisty backroad with a friend on his SV650. I figured surely he would pull away on the straights and the big sweepers, but I stuck right by him.
He's a good rider and was in full knee-drag mode, and I was just leaning it in, I guess the Husky has a much higher lean angle before you scrub pegs. I was eating him up in the tight stuff just riding street-bike style, not even tossing it or diving in that hard.

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He's picking up a DRZ400 tomorrow...
 
i think unless the road is really goaty. and speed limit is 20mph. the sv. will kill the 630.

knee draging is not always the quickest way through a turn. especially 30mph turn or slow turns.
 
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bpowa said:
i think unless the road is really goaty. and speed limit is 20mph. the sv. will kill the 630.

knee draging is not always the quickest way through a turn. especially 30mph turn or slow turns.
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This was mostly wide open sweepers with a couple hard 90's to the right, he was wide open up to his max grip for the sweepers and I was all over him. One of the sweepers has a little bobble in the middle, and the other is a bit off-camber. He would start to pull on me when it straightened up, but then I made it all back up in the tight corners and even had to back off a bit so as not to eat his fender.

We did an impromptu drag after that, and he had me by a few bike lengths at the 1/8 mile, but it was a lot closer than either of us expected it to be...
 
On rough mountain roads the SM610 kills. I was always surprised how quickly mine would cover ground and how EZ it would stay with bikes that you would think are much faster. On tighter back roads the HP does not matter as much as the torque, handling, lean angle and suspension. I really miss mine but you can't keep them all...

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RDTCU said:
I like it more...

Just had a little 'spirited jaunt' down some twisty backroad with a friend on his SV650. I figured surely he would pull away on the straights and the big sweepers, but I stuck right by him.
He's a good rider and was in full knee-drag mode, and I was just leaning it in, I guess the Husky has a much higher lean angle before you scrub pegs. I was eating him up in the tight stuff just riding street-bike style, not even tossing it or diving in that hard.

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He's picking up a DRZ400 tomorrow...
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Glad you are enjoying your Husky, is he buying new?

The last time I rode with two SV650's things got a bit muddy, they dismounted and walked next to their bikes on the throttle, while I was having an absolute blast.
 
jellyrug said:
Glad you are enjoying your Husky, is he buying new?

The last time I rode with two SV650's things got a bit muddy, they dismounted and walked next to their bikes on the throttle, while I was having an absolute blast.
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He's looking at a used one. He doesn't have it yet, he just texted me...

I told him about the low miles '07 610SM for sale 5 miles from me for $4700
 
It reasures me that I made the right choice.. I am so happy with my TE630. The motor is sweet..Very nice on the asphalt but can still get it done when the trail gets nasty..
 
Motosportz said:
On rough mountain roads the SM610 kills. I was always surprised how quickly mine would cover ground and how EZ it would stay with bikes that you would think are much faster. On tighter back roads the HP does not matter as much as the torque, handling, lean angle and suspension. I really miss mine but you can't keep them all...

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What sort of luggage rack is that? My OEM one broke the other day and I need to either repair it or buy something else.
 
Motosportz said:
On rough mountain roads the SM610 kills. I was always surprised how quickly mine would cover ground and how EZ it would stay with bikes that you would think are much faster. On tighter back roads the HP does not matter as much as the torque, handling, lean angle and suspension. I really miss mine but you can't keep them all...

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I also miss mine. In town and tight sweeping stuff it would nail my Aprilla 750 Dorsodura( Aprill 92hp ) But as soon as the road opened up a little more and the sweeping stuff was not so tight the DD would
leave my SM for dead-- by a loooooooong way :)nokia 217.jpg
 
Blazes said:
I also miss mine. In town and tight sweeping stuff it would nail my Aprilla 750 Dorsodura( Aprill 92hp ) But as soon as the road opened up a little more and the sweeping stuff was not so tight the DD would
leave my SM for dead-- by a loooooooong way :)View attachment 21677
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Blazes. I commute around 5km each way in Sydney CBD traffic on my TE 630, it is a seriously good bike for this. I was thinking about a Dorsoduro 750 for the commute to reduce wear and tear on the 630, saving it for its main purpose of bush riding, but your comment makes me think the 630 (even with knobbies) might be the better bike for the city commute. How would the 630 and the Dorso 750 compare in a lane splitting competition?
 
Urban traffic´s all I do on my 630. The only criticism is the immense turning circle and the weight. I also commute on it (about 65 kms each way), mostly on the German Autobahn. Suppose there are better bikes for the motorway and lighter, more agile bikes for hooning through the urban rushouhr. But none that can do both as well as the 630.
 
AussieRidin said:
Blazes. I commute around 5km each way in Sydney CBD traffic on my TE 630, it is a seriously good bike for this. I was thinking about a Dorsoduro 750 for the commute to reduce wear and tear on the 630, saving it for its main purpose of bush riding, but your comment makes me think the 630 (even with knobbies) might be the better bike for the city commute. How would the 630 and the Dorso 750 compare in a lane splitting competition?
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630 should be better --only thing with the Dorsodura is that that motor is soooooo smooth you can basically crawl at a stop sign and pull away withou even putting your feet down. I have two 610te's one just uncrated noiw and running in -- i will not easily commute with them as i want to save them as long as possible --thus the Dorsodura. Amazing how fast the kilometers can pile up on a bike riding it every day --not to mention the wear and tear. Aprilla is easier to service than my any of my 4 Huskies --
 
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