• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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!

TE630 Rear Tire Replacement

CJBROWN said:
Well, hurry up and burn the old one so we can hear how you like the new one. Good deal on that tire! I think they charge more than that plus shipping from TT.

Found a couple more threads on the Mefo's where the knobs were cracking and seperating after a lot of hiway running on the 950/990's. At least a comple of them completely delaminated, all the knobs peeled right off. I guess it's really important to keep those things aired up, like probably 30lbs for the husky. They were saying 36 for the KTM's, even for offroad. Javi says he's sold at least a couple of hundred of them and never had that before. They are making a warranty claim.

I decided to go the cheap route this time and try out the Michelin T63. They are $63 shipped from MCSS. Will post a report on how it goes, pics etc.

The new Karoo I had I shipped off to Fast1, he likes 'em and burns thru a lot of tires.
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I just emailed Javier asking what is the lowest psi I can safely run the Mefo. I'm not a fan of a rock hard rear tire aired up for the street. My current Pirelli MT-21 was happy with 19.5 psi on and off road. I'll post what Javier recommends.
 
blakebird said:
I ran the Trakmaster II on an XR400 I rode to Copper Canyon from El Paso....and back.
They held up well on that bike, but I've seen them chunk knobs on more powerful thumpers. But that's on rough offroad rocky surfaces - for pavement use and some trail riding they'd be a great economical choice.

A rear D606 is half gone after a week in Baja.
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I'm surprised the 606 isn't completely gone. ;)

I thought I read somewhere Kenda's are the old Cheng-Shin we used to see way back when?
Do they make a bigger tire than the 120/100? That's all MCSS has on their site. $77.

BTW, thanks for helping out on the wobbly thread on ADV. :thumbsup: Got 'er dialed!
 
rjdenya said:
I just emailed Javier asking what is the lowest psi I can safely run the Mefo. I'm not a fan of a rock hard rear tire aired up for the street. My current Pirelli MT-21 was happy with 19.5 psi on and off road. I'll post what Javier recommends.
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He's gonna tell you to run 30-35lbs in it. :(
You're right, that's thing is gonna be a rock. No wonder they're known to spin up offroad.
 
Fast1 said:
can you weigh that Mefo with an electronic fish scale?
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I do not have a fish scale available. No pun intended but it's certainly implied :D.

The Mefo Super Explorer, 140/80-18 weighed 16.2 LBS on my digital bathroom scale. My wife looked at me sideways while I carried the bathroom scale to the garage. :p
 
BTW, I got a Bridgestone Ultra HD tube yesterday. 4mm thick and lists all of our tire sizes on the tube imprint. It's made in Japan, not china/taiwan. It's SUPER HEAVY DUTY! They are $24 at rockymountainatv.com

Definitely da shiznit! I really don't want to be fiddling with flats in Death Valley. :thumbsup:
 
rjdenya said:
I don't see any Mefo Super Explorer tires on the web site you posted. Just the Mefo Explorer tires. There was no 140/80-18 size either.
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Looks like the same tire, same price. I shot them an email for clarification on their product listing.

This looks like a 140/80-18 size in the Explorer from their website:


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MEFO EXPLORER 140/80-18 REAR

$169.95

The MEFO Explorer is thelong distance professional dual-sport tire. Customers have reported to us that a set of Explorers can routinely take about 7,000-9,000 miles of use under the harsh adventure-touring conditions of Alaska. With secure, stable handling on dirt or wet pavement and high mileage performance, the Explorer has excellent all around versatility. Recommended for 50% street and 50% dirt riding.
 
CJBROWN said:
He's gonna tell you to run 30-35lbs in it. :(
You're right, that's thing is gonna be a rock. No wonder they're known to spin up offroad.
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Oh well, I'll give it a try at 30 psi and see how it handles. I could drop it down to 22-25 psi and keep my eye on the lugs. I've had experience with Trailwings, Dunlop 606's, Pirelli MT-21's, Karoo's and Six Days tires. Ironically, the Six Day got its name from lasting six days on the street . (Kidding) I'm ok with trying something new and expect some mixed results. If the tire falls apart after 2,500 miles because I ran 22 psi, who cares. It would of cost around the same for me to get two MT-21's which I am happy with. I was looking for more mileage and the ability to ride aggressive on the street and off road. Time will tell if I made the right purchase.

I have 422 miles on the MT-21 now. That's about halfway through its usable life. Soon I'll throw on the Mefo and report here.
 
rjdenya said:
I don't see any Mefo Super Explorer tires on the web site you posted. Just the Mefo Explorer tires. There was no 140/80-18 size either.
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Damn, they are fast.

Erik from SWMototires replied to my request for clarification on the tire:

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Janet,

All of the Explorer's we get are Super Explorer tires, Mefo only makes one version.

Thank you

Erik

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JoiseyJanet said:
Damn, they are fast.

Erik from SWMototires replied to my request for clarification on the tire:

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Janet,

All of the Explorer's we get are Super Explorer tires, Mefo only makes one version.

Thank you

Erik

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Email Erik the following link:

http://www.twistedthrottle.com/trade/productlist/765/

Mefo makes an Explorer and a Super Explorer tire. With regards to the 140/80-18 size, the Super Explorer is the only tire available. I'm not a tire expert but this is what I've read online.
 
rjdenya said:
I don't see any Mefo Super Explorer tires on the web site you posted. Just the Mefo Explorer tires. There was no 140/80-18 size either.
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Ever since Ive gotten rid of the stock tire Ive only used another 140 ONCE on my 610. Its way to big and heavy and overkill for the 610 IMHO... I usually use a 130 or 120, depending on the tire and avalability.... Mostly 606's, Desert IT's, or T63's.. Coincidently, I'm trying a MIchelin AC10 for the first time now. Pretty good, def the best off road of those bunch, kinda tied with the MT 43, but in different terrains the winners for offroad. ON road its perfectly fine, and SO FAR the wear has been ALOT better than I thought for something that looked like a barely DOT MX tire. I usually get around 800- 1100 miles on my rears, depending on how far down I run em. Back to size. THe AC10 I could ONLY find in a 110 at the time, so I decided to still try it..It's been AWESOME. The bike feels down right flickable, it turns so quick and sharp compared to with any other rear on there... It's been SSSOOOO fun, off and on road because of that. So, bigger most certainly isn't always better for a middle/smaller sized ADV bike.
 
blakebird said:
No, Kenda has been around a while - I think Shinko is what used to be Cheng Shin.
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I had to check on that.... Shinko has a link to Yokohama, and are still designed in Japan, but produced in Korea.

Cheng Shin is related to Maxxis (I had no idea until I started digging) and a Chinese company.
 
And trellborg was made by somebody else, I forget who, and also heard they've closed up shop.

Metzler is owned by ?? Continental? I think...

The players are hard to keep up with.

And yeah, you don't have to run a 140 tire on the 630. It is a 2.15 rim, anything with some load carrying and 4.60-5.10 size is fine.

I bought the T63 based on these photos, and the good reports on them everywhere: http://www.ridetherock.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4832
Knob height is 13mm/1/2", good 50/50 tire. Pics from Michelin on the retailers sites are crap.
 
JoiseyJanet said:
Looks like the same tire, same price. I shot them an email for clarification on their product listing.

This looks like a 140/80-18 size in the Explorer from their website:


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MEFO EXPLORER 140/80-18 REAR

$169.95

The MEFO Explorer is thelong distance professional dual-sport tire. Customers have reported to us that a set of Explorers can routinely take about 7,000-9,000 miles of use under the harsh adventure-touring conditions of Alaska. With secure, stable handling on dirt or wet pavement and high mileage performance, the Explorer has excellent all around versatility. Recommended for 50% street and 50% dirt riding.
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K-60 Scout, Same tire easier to find and the same price. The set I have on a 1200GS has 14,000 miles on it!!
 

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Russ said:
I have my bike booked in for a service & I asked the dealer to order some D606s. He called to say he couldn't get them so got some Pirelli MT90s instead. I haven't heard much about these but they look to be too road oriented to me. Does anybody have any experience with these, particularly in the dirt?

http://www.totalmotorcycle.com/photos/tire-tyre-guide/Pirelli-ScorpionMT90AT.htm
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I called into the dealer on the way home from work today to have a look at these tyres. Not suitable at all for my riding & very surprised the dealer ordered them in when I'd asked for D606s. These MT90s look to be about 20/80 dirt/road, although the dealer said they are regarded as 40/60. I think they would be next to useless for any proper off road work.

Anyway, have now got a set of MT21s on the way, so much happier with that.
 
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