• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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... :)

A few more improvements.

Added a 2.5" square of 3/4" plywood to the bottom of the kickstand. Keeps the bike from leaning so far over, increases the footprint in soft ground, and no more metal to metal contact anywhere. :)

Removed some foam from the Sweetcheeks seat and slid in a 30oz MSR fuel bottle. Will do this to the other side also and have an extra 1/2 gal of gas. Or I might put a first aid kit in a Nalgene bottle or tool tube w/ the mounts trimmed off... If you've never sat on a Sweetcheeks seat thingy you should, it is better in some ways than sitting on my Goldwing. Spreads your weight onto your thighs. Mine is a 6.5" wide model.

Also made some standoff plates for the exhaust so I can hang my sportbike soft luggage. They are rock solid.

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I like what you did for the kickstand...looking at a simple fix like that myself, though I'll likely use hard plastic or teflon and cut it to the shape of the foot (yeah, I know, this will still leave the sinking in concern but I can live w/ that.) Great job on the things you're doing- it's fun to see some less common approaches being employed/fabricated!
 
Sorry mate but that sidestand foot solution looks terribly 'agricultural' :confused: Some poor Italian designer is having a nightmare! :cry:

Get some teflon or polyprop and shape it the same shape as the existing foot just larger all round (stand bike on it and trace around with something that will space the pen away) - then cut to shape and attach.
 
They deserve a nightmare...the stand was smacking the rear footpeg bracket two different places on the way up. :eek: Might make another one from cutting board if I get bored sometime...although this one could serve as emergency kindling :)
 
Barkbusters VPS w/ triple clamp mounts, Hyde Racing skid plate, windshield. Also made a stop that limits the forward travel of the kickstand so it is more vertical and no longer need the block at the bottom.

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DYNOBOB said:
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Also made a stop that limits the forward travel of the kickstand so it is more vertical and no longer need the block at the bottom.
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What kind of stop?
I haven't been too unhappy with the stock kickstand, but it does seem to swing too far forward.

I got the prototype windshield from TCI, cut mine down just over 2", a little off the sides, and followed the headlight contour on the bottom. Works stellar. You can see the original top mounting screws now between the two mounting tabs.

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Yeah, I agree the windshield is a little tall. I like what you did, how did you cut it...the thought scares me a little?

I'll take a pic of the stop.

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DYNOBOB said:
Yeah, I agree the windshield is a little tall. I like what you did, how did you cut it...the thought scares me a little?
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VERY carefully. :D

Seriously, I have a bench-mounted scroll saw from my RC aircraft building days. I cover the top of the saw table with duct tape so it doesn't scratch the acrylic. Mark it off with a sharpie, and use the low speed setting on the saw. Then finish up with file and sandpaper down to 400 grit. Looks factory finished. Takes about an hour to do one. Acrylic is quite difficult to cut because of it's low temp melting point. Lexan is a breeze. I made up another one of the same shape from a flat sheet of .023 lexan from 'depot. The bend in the mounting tabs is just enough to curve the lexan to the right shape. It is also unbreakable but scratches easily. Johngil is running one of this type.
 
Got my Husky rack today and mounted the Givi box. Cig power port in trunk disconnects from SAE plug under seat.

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I've heard of the term 'KLR-ized'. :D

How are you going to stand up with those bottles hung on there?
And don't put anything in that trunk that doesn't like to be bounced around. Or are you going to ride this one on the street?
 
I prefer to call it a TE 630 GS...:)

The sweetcheeks will slide back the seat when you stand up (and I don't stand up a lot). The Givi is for light stuff and a place to store helmet. Eventually the soft bags and Husky rack will be replaced w/ the TCI Outback system w/ Pelican cases.

What I like so much about the TE is its ability to cover miles comfortably on pavement and handle off roading way better than a GS, Strom, KLR, etc. My use will be TAT type riding, not fast/hard desert riding.
 
That's alright, they call mine klr-ized as well. Something about the windshield I think. And now your trunk. Oh well, build it to do what you want it to do.

It's a GS eater offroad, no doubt.
 
DYNOBOB said:
Got my Husky rack today and mounted the Givi box. Cig power port in trunk disconnects from SAE plug under seat.
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I forgot if you had beefed up your subframe yet? If not, you really need to with all that hanging back there.
 
Haven't yet, I have Chris's template and I'm curious to see what TCI comes up with (and if it will be included w/ the Outback rack).
 
Valid question.

The left one (2610) is touchscreen and better at nav. I have several of these that are unlocked to the same maps so I can build a route on the computer and dump to the units. For instance, I have the TAT broken down into daily segments so I don't need to use paper/roll maps. My dad, buddy, and I are on the same page.

The right one (GPS MAP 478) is cool because it overlays XM weather radar and you can listen to XM radio. It can store routes from computer but no touchscreen means it is fussy to nav with.

Both are waterproof.
 
DYNOBOB said:
Valid question. The answer is I'm a nerd.

The left one (2610) is touchscreen and better at nav. I have several of these that are unlocked to the same maps so I can build a route on the computer and dump to the units. For instance, I have the TAT broken down into daily segments so I don't need to use paper/roll maps. My dad, buddy, and I are on the same page.

The right one (GPS MAP 478) is cool because it overlays XM weather radar and you can listen to XM radio. It can store routes from computer but no touchscreen means it is fussy to nav with.

Both are waterproof.
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Since I've got the SMS and usually stick to the streets, I just bought a RAM bracket for my Garmin 255w and bolted it straight down to the handlebar clamp cross-piece, low and out of the way, but still plenty visible. I'm trying to keep it fairly clean and un-cluttered...
 
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.
 
Like a horse, I step on the left peg and step across (while the bike is on the stand). Occasionally I kick the Givi. I only weigh 145 geared up though...you better have Ken's steel kickstand if you're normal size.
 
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