• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 630 owner here

XLEnduroMan said:
Congrats on the TE 630. :thumbsup: I recommend the UpTite skid plate, bullet proof. Upgrade your foot peg and sub frame bolts, and loctite them. Loctite the sprocket bolts! Open up your air box, put a 14t cs sprocket on and get a FMF Powercore 4 pipe on that thing. The stock cans are hot, heavy and 14lbs heavier then the FMF. Oh yea, and keep an eye on the stock DID chain. Both of our TE 630's stock chains lost an o-ring in different spots. They then got a sticky link and started grooving the side of the rear sprockets. Luckily hers was the master link and was an easy fix. Mine wasn't.
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blue locktite good enough?

Uptite website makes me want to shoot myself http://www.uptitehusky.com/. They really oughta let me redo it for them like I did for highvelocitygear.com (though he guy has since messed with it... whatever. his site. not mine.) So I have not seen it yet. Found this one here - http://tinyurl.com/6mnbjlr. Kind of strange with the bars though? Dunno. Mostly want to protect the bike from me sucking so much and falling over like a turd.

I would like to replace the exhaust with something lighter. Is there a single exhaust set up that is cheap? Or is replacing the two stock mufflers with FMF versions as you said good enough for weight savings?
 
BaronVonDarrin said:
plastic? Better be some crazy strong plastic for me to trust it over aluminum... ?
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Depends what you plan on doing with it. I've dropped my SMS in the weeds a couple times goofing off in the grass, and the case has never touched the ground because of the Hyde plate. It's not a bulletproof shield, it's only a buffer against drops and things hitting the case and frame, and would keep the cases safe in a short pavement skid. If you plan on jumping big rocks, get a stronger plate.

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The 630 is plenty heavy without a metal skid plate. Don´t think the Hydy provides much less protection, but it´s very light and it doesn´t rattle or vibrate.
 
This might sound like a silly question, but I have not actually taken a look yet and do not have the bike in my possession yet from the dealer... What material is the subframe constructed of?
 
Aluminum. The rear of the seat is supported by the triangulated tubes, but the tail/rack area is a pair of cast pieces welded to the ends of the subframe tubes, and they're not really that well designed for any kind of loads...
 
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