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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

SM conversion NOW WITH PICS

rajobigguy

rajobigguy

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I picked up a set of SM wheel for the 610 today.:applause::applause:
My plan is to make a street moto out of it. I don't have or really need the big the big 320 front rotor so I don't need to do a caliper change out or relocation. What I do need is another front and rear rotor so I don't have to swap it back and forth evey time I do the conversion so soes anyone have any suggestions on where to get the best deals on rotors. Also can I pick the brain of anyone who has done the conversion before? Do I need different axle spacers? Whats a good tire combo and sz to be running?
Thanks in advance
Rajo.
 
That is great, where did you get the wheels? I have been looking
for a super-deal on a set of used wheels, no luck so far.:thumbsup:
 
I happened across a guy that had bought a set of wheels to make the conversion (they are OE Husky SM wheels), he sent them out and had them black powder coated and was ready to make the swap when he came across a smoking deal on a set of mags. I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.
 
rajobigguy;24020 said:
.....SM wheel for the 610 ...:applause::applause:
.....I don't have or really need the big the big 320 front rotor so I don't need to do a caliper change out or relocation.......
Rajo.
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Raj,
Oh you're gonna have some fun :cool:
One question; how good is that TE rotor going to be on the street? :excuseme:

Mind you the 610 in street form makes you do....."things"......
You think you can resist, you try to be mature.....but alas, there's no escaping the motardness......:D
Something about this beast makes you take the margins of error a bit on the short side and it's nice to have the big anchor to drop when the shmit hits the van or just before it :thinking:

:thumbsup:
 
Muddy Waters;24152 said:
Raj,
Oh you're gonna have some fun :cool:
One question; how good is that TE rotor going to be on the street? :excuseme:

Mind you the 610 in street form makes you do....."things"......
You think you can resist, you try to be mature.....but alas, there's no escaping the motardness......:D
Something about this beast makes you take the margins of error a bit on the short side and it's nice to have the big anchor to drop when the shmit hits the van or just before it :thinking:

:thumbsup:
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I'm looking at possible option for the big 320mm brake but realistically the 260mm TE rotor isn't that bad - I use it with knobbies- so no matter what it will be a improvement with street tires. The other really cool thing is that I wont have to compromise on dirt tires, I can go as aggressive as I want.
On the hooligan issue, well I suppose that there might be just a little bit of it initially but I'm sure I can tame the beast within.:devil:
 
Motosportz;24160 said:
Got your Email. We have the rotors for you in stock so you can run all the stock stuff.

K
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If you have the 240 rear and 260 front, I'll probably go that route for now, it makes it a simple swap out and I don't think I'm going to be doing any track days so it should be adequate for spirited street driving. Can you PM me the part #'s I need ot order? Or even pst them here since it might be of interest to others considering doing this.
 
rajobigguy;24165 said:
If you have the 240 rear and 260 front, I'll probably go that route for now, it makes it a simple swap out and I don't think I'm going to be doing any track days so it should be adequate for spirited street driving. Can you PM me the part #'s I need ot order? Or even pst them here since it might be of interest to others considering doing this.
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Will do. We have ALL the sizes for all the bikes.
 
OK guys and gals, here's the finished product. Thanks Kelly for helping me round up some parts and thanks to everyone else for there input.
There are a few things to be aware of when doing this conversion.
1. The offset on the SM rim is slightly different than that on a TE so the front spacer needs to be about 1/8" wider to center the wheel and yes the wheel has to be perfectly centered because there isn't much room between the sliders.
2. The TE caliper doesn't have enough float to make up the 1/8" difference with the wider spacer so you have to add some shims to the caliper mounting pads.
Other than that its' a straight forward easy swap. I'll do a wright up on the performance once I get used to it but right off the bat I can tell that I'm going to need to make some minor tuning adjustments if I stay with the lower gearing. With the lager/ heavier TE wheels the load was more constant under acceleration so running it rich didn't matter but with less load on the engine from the SM set up I will probably have to lean it out a bit to get optimum performance.

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Very nice!:thumbsup:
I was just thinking yesterday as I was cruising some local mtn roads how fun this would be to do to my bike!!
 
RumRunner;25541 said:
Very nice!:thumbsup:
I was just thinking yesterday as I was cruising some local mtn roads how fun this would be to do to my bike!!
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I've always wanted to have a setup for both TE and SM and it really came to a boil this year because I missed so many off road rides and I wanted more seat time. I was just lucky enough to come across a good deal at a time when I had a few dollars in my pocket (which is pretty rare).:D
 
Looks great :thumbsup:


rajobigguy;25542 said:
...wanted more seat time...
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And the next thing to do will be a Recazo (sp?) seat :cool:



See some kibble in the garage, I hope you have not resorted to eating dog food to pay for this stuff!
 
Coffee;25544 said:
Looks great :thumbsup:




And the next thing to do will be a Recazo (sp?) seat :cool:



See some kibble in the garage, I hope you have not resorted to eating dog food to pay for this stuff!
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:lol::lol::lol:

Not yet, my teeth aren't up to any thing that crunchy. Bullion is cheap though.:D
 
Coffee;25546 said:
Forgot about your teeth, hope you are well soon. This might be doable too :cheers:
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Thanks Dean, I'm doing pretty well but it will be months before the bone has healed enough to have a real set of dentures so I still need to stick with relatively soft foods. On the lighter side I have lost 25#s and continue to drop. I may have to petition to have my screen name changed to Rajomediumguy if this keeps up.:D
 
Get some auto upholstery paint for vinyl and paint that little strip of blue on your seat. Works remarkably well and holds up great. I actually did an off road GUTS seat that had the horrid light blue on it and it would last 5-10 hard mud rides before needing a little shot. I bet on your road bike it would last a long time.
 
Motosportz;25552 said:
Get some auto upholstery paint for vinyl and paint that little strip of blue on your seat. Works remarkably well and holds up great. I actually did an off road GUTS seat that had the horrid light blue on it and it would last 5-10 hard mud rides before needing a little shot. I bet on your road bike it would last a long time.
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Funny you should say that, I was just about to mail you a can can of black Kryoln Fussion to do you're stancion protectors with.:busted:
Personally I kinda like my little blue stripe although if I ever have Renazco do my seat I will probably delete it.
 
Motosportz;25552 said:
Get some auto upholstery paint for vinyl and paint that little strip of blue on your seat. Works remarkably well and holds up great. I actually did an off road GUTS seat that had the horrid light blue on it and it would last 5-10 hard mud rides before needing a little shot. I bet on your road bike it would last a long time.
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Hey just because she is sporting street shoes at the moment doesn't mean she's never going to get dirty again.
 
hey great looking bike,i did the same to my 09 te510 with the sm wheels you sould see the pics i posted.but great bike anyway
 
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