• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

OEM or out there?

glitch_oz

glitch_oz

Husqvarna
Pro Class
With so many parts Chinese of the BMW G650GS transplanted to the TR's.....do those brake discs look familiar?
Check the details before just wiping it off the table....and consider that the production cost of a TR would have been WELL below the US$2500 mark :thumbsup:


http://www.ebay.com/itm/171593032804
http://www.ebay.com/itm/181615881101

Anyway, got a set of BMW wire wheels sitting there ready to go into the Strada and needed some brake-discs and ABS rings to make it a straight slot-in.
US$100 for a pair of discs sounded pretty good...and I couldn't tell those Eaby-jobbies from the items the bike came with.
We'll see when they get here...
 
Not sure if all those Ebay Chinese sellers get their goods from the same factory but according to multiple forums I have been present on this seller:
http://stores.ebay.com/brakediscfactory/BMW-/_i.html?_fsub=6429301018
sells discs that are as good as the OEM ones.

Multiple individuals tried their brake disc sets on the track (in the desert) with no warping or fading as a result. It is pretty safe to say that not all aftermarket products from China are subpar.
 
duibhceK said:
Because you think the OEM disks aren't made in China?
The entire engine was made in China, why would the disks be any different? I would have them.
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......clearly the calipers are not nor are all the plastics and I suspect just about everything else is not Chinese, including the chassis. Its pretty easy to notice "Chinese"...check out the discs on Jap bikes made in China and you'll see what I mean...they just have no idea on how to finish a machining job properly let alone getting the correct metallurgy......could also explain why our gearboxes are a bit clunky.
 
kiwiape said:
......clearly the calipers are not nor are all the plastics and I suspect just about everything else is not Chinese, including the chassis. Its pretty easy to notice "Chinese"...check out the discs on Jap bikes made in China and you'll see what I mean...they just have no idea on how to finish a machining job properly let alone getting the correct metallurgy......could also explain why our gearboxes are a bit clunky.
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No so true any more. I ride a AJP PR5 motorcycle. Made in Portugal with a Chinese motor. The castings on the motor look amazing. They have come a long long ways and BMW makes tons of stuff there. Koren's figured it out too. Check out the new Hyundai's look like Hondas and last. Its a global economy and manufacturing is becoming a controlled science with cad/cam and manufacturing methods. sure they can still build price point crap but also but great stuff.
 
I would be willing to bet the plastics on the TR650 aren't made in China, they are breaking too much LOL.
 
mag00 said:
I would be willing to bet the plastics on the TR650 aren't made in China, they are breaking too much LOL.
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Coming from the same place as the bearings ? :lol:



https://www.google.com.au/search?q=Polisport Plásticos, S.A&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=ZJ_FVb-eBKHQmwXbyrKoBA


Polinter Plásticos, a Portuguese public limited company based in Carregosa, Oliveira de Azeméis, is dedicated to providing services for injection molding of plastic materials and, since February 2006, extrusion blow molding.
The company’s activity is focused essentially on the demanding and competitive market of components for two-wheeled vehicles ¬– bikes and motorbikes – as well as baby chairs for both vehicle types.
The company went into business in 1980 under the name Oliveira e Silva, Lda, which was changed to Polinter Plásticos, Lda in 1988. In August 2009, its legal status was changed to Polinter Plásticos, S.A., a public limited company.
Polinter is currently 100% owned by Polisport SGPS, S.A..
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There are lots of Chinese made stuff here ... Some ok, some break before you get it out of the store ... So the term China-made is ambiguous at best when referring to quality of the product..

Several brands of Chinese bikes here also ... Different levels of quality on them ... The one thing I see that looks the worst with the Chinese made stuff is that the metal will just break off the bikes sometimes because it is such poor quality. It's so bad here the GOV was trying to stop riders from swapping out stock parts to Chinese brand stuff because it is causing crashes here.

That disc is metal ... You might ~never know what it is made of ... If something like that rotor breaks off at the wrong time, it's too late to re-order ... Myself, I cut corners often to get the most out of my duckies but safety is one place I'm not gonna cut too much off a corner.
 
That one on ebay might be better? Who knows? I'm just saying 1 brush does not paint the term 'china-made' in all aspects... ESP in the cases where (1) a fat company comes into an underdeveloped land, builds a factory, exploits and trains the locals with low pay and work hrs (2) as compared to a <whatever> company making <whatever> parts and selling them out the door. In the latter case, you gotta know who you are buying from or bear the consequences of your actions.
 
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