• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Te630 Owner, Let The Farkles Begin... :)

TE 450 Pilot said:
So i got to ask. How do you get on and off these bikes with so much gear piled on them. I have a hard time throwing my leg over just a soft bag on my husky rack.
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I do the step through - boot over the seat. Dismount is off the left peg like a horse. It's easy to balance once you're on the bike so a dismount is easy. If I don't have something on the pillion I can do a swing over right leg as normal, just bend your knee plenty so your boot swings over the seat.
 
A few updates to my thread.

Switched to a 14t front sprocket and love it.

Decided the TCI shield was too big so I made my own. Just enough protection for extended 70mph trips.

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My fuel tank built a huge vacuum as it emptied so I cut a bolt and drilled a small hole through it to make a vent fitting.

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Wrapped the fuel line in reflective heat blanket. Prob not an issue but was a little close to the head for my taste.

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Added a PC-V and it works great. The stock map was right on for my stock bike.

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Some updates to the thread

I did CJ's subframe braces and added the TCI Outback rack, can mount Pelicans or Wolfmans. Finding I run the Wolfmans 95% of the time.

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Added a fuel pressure gauge and LED on top of speedo indicating power to fuel pump.

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Cut a section of foam out of the seat to get closer to the ground w/o lowering the back. Looks a lot like a TR650 seat now.

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Added FMF Powercore 4 which dropped 14lbs, almost exactly offsetting the weight of the luggage rack. Bike weights 350 on the bathroom scales without luggage. Made a heat blanket sock for the shock reservoir.

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I switched to a Dunlop 908 rear tire before going out west and am pleased w/ it. It's very stiff but seems a good match to the power/weight of the 630 especially when I'm riding two up. Have 3000 miles on the stock front tire and will be due soon. Also installed the Tubliss system in both tires. Nice not to worry about pinch flats. The guys are impressed where this bike went two up...

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