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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

SMRs and Dirt

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75Hus400wr

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It seems the last two sets of spare Husky wheels I sold, went to owners of SMRs (450 and a 510) who wanted to ride dirt as well as street. That is really a good idea I will have to look at in 09 when I buy my next Husky. The SMR forks work great down in Baja for riding and racing, so its a + right off the bat. I sure love this Husky only site!
 
I have a TE610 and scored a set of SM wheels, brakes and forks for it. Converted it to Sm and am having a blast on it. Good fun. i can swap it all out in about 15 minutes. Great DS bike and SM bike all in one. The 610 is a wonderful platform for a do it all bike. Quite the chameleon.

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or SM

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however the 08 SMR's have the shortened rear swing arm which I am pretty sure will leave no room for an 18 or 19" rear wheel/tire, though I haven't tried to physically install a TE wheel on an 08 SMR, I am pretty sure that's the scenario. I believe the 08 SMR rear swing arm is 30mm shorter and all of that length is taken out in the wheel well dept.
 
Motosportz;1043 said:
I have a TE610 and scored a set of SM wheels, brakes and forks for it. Converted it to Sm and am having a blast on it. Good fun. i can swap it all out in about 15 minutes. Great DS bike and SM bike all in one. The 610 is a wonderful platform for a do it all bike. Quite the chameleon.

TE

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or SM

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Amen, brother! As soon as I got my SM610, I had Les do up my suspension. I put handguards, skidplate, Uptite's carb filter thingy, and a set of MT60's and went out to play in the NV desert for a week. It was a blast! I wanted the 610 motor for long-distance dualsport/adventurey stuff, thinking it would be the best bike for me (biggest motor in the lightest and most nimble package) and I was not disappointed at all. It does exactly what I wanted it to do, and does it quite well. It's a monster blast on the street, too. That front brake, alone, was worth the price of admission:)

Sone photos from that Nevada trip...

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It was less of a handful on singletrack than I thought!

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WoodsChick
 
I'm just about to do similar with my 630, skid plate, handguards, heated grips, bar risers, luggage rack (all Touratech, 'cos I work for them!) then slap on a set of MT60's and maybe a Lynx fairing and a Safari Tank for a TE can slot in - hey presto, adventure supermoto! Oh and maybe a new seat too, double sculpted to save my precious derriere from assault and protect the Mrs should she join me...

pics coming soon...
 
Touratech said:
I'm just about to do similar with my 630, skid plate, handguards, heated grips, bar risers, luggage rack (all Touratech, 'cos I work for them!) then slap on a set of MT60's and maybe a Lynx fairing and a Safari Tank for a TE can slot in - hey presto, adventure supermoto! Oh and maybe a new seat too, double sculpted to save my precious derriere from assault and protect the Mrs should she join me...

pics coming soon...
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Looking forward to the photos!
 
Did any of the 610SMR's ever get a shortened swingarm like the '08+SMR's did? maybe the FI'd 610's or 630's? SMR>Dirt wont work if you start with a shortened swingarm.. But the TE610's like you guys have above obviously work great. These huskies definitely are a Do-it-all bike! LOVE 'EM!
 
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