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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

To Motard Or Not To Motard...That Is The Question

Fast1 said:
If you can find someone that lives nearby with a Husky SM you could try out their wheelset and know for sure what is right for you. You will still have to fit a small TE rotor on the SM front wheel however for a try at it. You can not retrofit the SM front brakeset to the TE due to front caliper mount.. I tried..
Click to expand...
A local friend of mine has a 610 and has put together a SM kit for it, but never used it. It should fit my bike with little or no modification. He has offered to sell it to me and let me try fitting it up before I commit to buy.
 
I just went outside in the garage and snapped a couple of pictures that clearly show the differences in how the front caliper mounts up on each version,, TE and SM for reference. Again that huge caliper and rotor are night and day for fast entry at the latest breaking point coming into a turn or slowing down quickly with much less pressure from the fingers and minimal fade in comparison.

TE630 ..obviously

IMG_3590.jpg



SM630

IMG_3591.jpg
 
I'm not hardcore enough to need that big brake. But, I would like to relocate my caliper and use the bigger rotor. The added heat dissipation would probably make a good enough difference, especially since the TE has less fluid to work with.

I also notice that the speedo sensor is further away from the axle on the SM.
 
jtemple said:
I'm not hardcore enough to need that big brake.
Click to expand...

maybe not yet.. but give it a few hundred miles.:rolleyes: I would think the larger rotor and stock caliper with re-positioning bracket should help.

Don't forget about the alphabet roads east of La Crosse WI :cheers: Trust me.. they are worth it for the upper mid-west. Minimal traffic, good elevation change and just pure heaven for a SM or even the TE. The down hill tight turns and hairpins are where the SM brakes have their true advantage and are most noticable over the stock TE clamps.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top