• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

TE 900: won't you buy this bike?

No but someone would. The TR650 is as big as I need with any off road thoughts.

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I'd buy it if the seat height didn't reach halfway to the moon. I just spent 2 gloriously long days in the forest on 4wd trails with a KTM 950 ADV, a KTM 950 Super Enduro and a Yamaha SuperTenere. Someone forgot to tell those guys they couldn't have fun on big heavy bikes. It's just different.
 
IMHO, once these bikes get too far North of 300lbs., they can do everything, but they can't do any one thing very good. Too heavy for anything beyond fire roads. Not really suited for 100mph runs with fast twisties. Not comfortable for long distance. But they can do all of those things.

KTM has the solution right now with the 500 EXC, around 250lbs, 100mph + on pavement and light enough to handle the gnarly stuff with the best out there. The only place a TE900 would outrun it, is on straight pavement, if I wanted that, I will ride one of my street bikes.
 
If it came out truly looking like that then the tail/fender is just way too short as it then makes it look way too ghetto (stretched swingarm look.) Nothing irritates me more than seeing someone who thinks they're the shiznit when all they're doing is saying that they have no clue about bike/handling geometry and would go for looks over function (and, on top of that, the "look" looks stooooopid.) Sorry for the loosely related rant. :) Anyway, I fall in the preference group of wanting less weight and am glad I got the 630 when I did.
 
WoodsChick said:
I just spent 2 gloriously long days in the forest on 4wd trails with a KTM 950 ADV, a KTM 950 Super Enduro and a Yamaha SuperTenere. Someone forgot to tell those guys they couldn't have fun on big heavy bikes. It's just different.
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I knew you'd warm up to the ADV bikes, Woodsie. Because I know riding is in your blood and if it's got two wheels, you'll find a way to have fun on it. :)



ADV bikes are just better at a slightly different role than dirt bikes. You can't force them to be a 250 when they're not. Any more than you can force a Harley to be a GSXR. Maybe the role of an ADV bike doesn't suit your interests. Or maybe your interests might change if you open your mind. Not that you'd become a wimp and only do easy fire roads (you can do more difficult stuff on an ADV bike), but instead of trucking your bike to where you ride, it becomes a riding journey. You ride there. You explore. You camp. You ride to another area. Instead of setting up a base camp, you just go. It's a different frame of thought. I enjoy both types of riding personally. But I enjoy just about everything but sport bikes. They're too cramped for me.

I've got an F800GS and it's a hoot to ride. There's not a lot of dirt where I live, but there's a decent number of narrow twisties with pavement in poor condition. And that bike excels there. I can spank sport bikes on the goat roads. And it's not bad off road. Much better than you'd think for a 450lb bike. Of course, when I want to fully dive into the dirt, I'll truck my TE310 and have a blast. But I'm probably heading to the Sierras in a week or two on the 800 to catch the fall colors. And while the 310 would get me to them on the dirt, the 800 gets me to the fall colors all weekend long. Not once will I be shut up in a cage. That's what I like about ADV riding. It's ALL riding.

And no, there's no way in HELL I'm selling my 310 or my 610 any time soon. Love em both. :cheers:
 
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