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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TE to SMS weight differences

Same stuff on both, other than wheels/tires/brakes, springs and some suspension internals. I took my passenger pegs off my SMS when I got it, but put them back on to carry someone. Glad I did, the left one saved the whole left side of the bike in a 50mph lowside. The passenger pegs make great body/frame sliders...
 
"light weight" is a relative term.

Compared to a TE511, the 630 is a whale.
Compared to the so-called sportsbikes left wallowing behind it, the 630 is a minnow.

I would not describe my TE630 as light weight. There is plenty of potential for trimming weight, the passenger pegs are a good place to start.
 
My SM610 "felt" heavier than a buddy's TE610 - but I'm guessing a lot of that was because of the differences in tires that we each had on at the time (I had monster knobbies on both ends, he had the proper tires) and the height difference making his feel a bit more "flackable." That said, I have no idea what the actual scale difference was.

RDTCU said:
The passenger pegs make great body/frame sliders...
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Yep, which is why I put mine back on (previous owner removed them). My left peg has helped prevent a $600 Leo muffler replacement more than once. Plus, they're handy tie-down points.
 
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