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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

New Terra Owner Reporting for Duty

gullywasher

gullywasher

Husqvarna
AA Class
After some research, I decided I wanted Terra as a more dirt-worthy adventure mount. I missed out on buying the last available one in Texas (or anywhere remotely close to me for that matter) a couple of months ago. So I started hunting for Plan B - a Suzuki DR650SE - on craigslist when I came across a 2014 TR650 Terra with 213 miles on it being sold by a nice gent who ordered it from a dealer in Tuscon sight-unseen only to decide not long after that it just wasn't for him. It looks like it just rolled out of the showroom. I guess it did!

So $4900 later, I am in business. Even has a few nice bits included: centerstand, Husky taller screen, throttle lock cruise and a plug to remedy some fuel injection issues.

Due to many 75mph two lanes around these parts and an obnoxious amount of superslab that needs traversing to get anywhere, I am thinking a steering damper may be my first farkle.

Glad to be a part of the family. This forum seems to be a great resource!
 
Welcome gullywasher, you are correct this forum is a nice place where Husky fans can share info, modifications and most of all also pictures of your adventures. Lucky in here is a very friendly atmosphere also towards other brands and I wish you nice and save miles on your Terra.

Regards, John

P.S. you live in the State where Kevin Schwantz comes from, a fantastic rider in the 500 CC moto Grand Prix. I really like his driving style and his attitude towards racing.
P.S. 2 and also I am a great fan of Ron Paul even I have never been in the States.
 
Hey Gullywasher,

Welcome to the fold. Make sure you check out these two threads on ADV:

Thread index with many "how to's"

http://advrider.com/forums/showpost.php?p=24352468&postcount=4293

OEM/Interchangeable Parts index

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showpost.php?p=24330343&postcount=4253

Both of these will help you avoid the steep learning curve that the rest of us went through. There are several things you should be doing right away to the TR.

1. Airbox/Filter modification. Do it, don't doubt it. Just do it and do it quickly. "How to" in the thread index and there are two options.
2. Do a fenderectomy on the rear fender or risk breaking it (long lead times on replacements). "How to" is in the thread index
3. Burp the cooling system to get rid if air. Lots of info here on CH
4. Change rear rack if it hasn't been done already. It's prone to breaking. If you use it as is load it lightly or it will break
 
John_Belgium said:
Welcome gullywasher, you are correct this forum is a nice place where Husky fans can share info, modifications and most of all also pictures of your adventures. Lucky in here is a very friendly atmosphere also towards other brands and I wish you nice and save miles on your Terra.

Regards, John

P.S. you live in the State where Kevin Schwantz comes from, a fantastic rider in the 500 CC moto Grand Prix. I really like his driving style and his attitude towards racing.
P.S. 2 and also I am a great fan of Ron Paul even I have never been in the States.
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Hey John, you forgot Collin Edwards! He's just around the bend from me. Thanks for the welcome.
 
drzcharlie, I certainly appreciate the links and the hit list of must-do's. I'll read up on those issues and get to it right away.
 
Welcome Gullywasher. Sounds like you got a good deal there. I've had my Terra almost 2 years. Still loving every minute I spend riding it.

I wish I could nominate some great GP riders who have come from the same state/city as me, but unfortunately, all of the successful GP riders from Australia have come from distant places, but I do know the parents of the Alex & Damien Cudlin, both of whom have had some wildcard Moto2/MotoGP rides.
 
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