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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

09 TE610 praise

knary;90413 said:
If the XR650R had the button...
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If it had the button, I'd own one. Came real close to buying one then realized I'd probably get tired of kicking it like my friend warned.

I looked up the XT660. 454 lbs? Is that a misprint :confused:
 
Navaho6;90355 said:
The market for bikes like the TE610 is small. KTM is the only real competitor.
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I went into Malcolm Smith a couple of weeks ago. They have a couple of the new Aprillia's on the floor. I know zilch about them, but boy do they look nice. I decided it was a good idea to leave the store immediately than to look at them anymore...
 
Jodiesel;90543 said:
I went into Malcolm Smith a couple of weeks ago. They have a couple of the new Aprillia's on the floor. I know zilch about them, but boy do they look nice. I decided it was a good idea to leave the store immediately than to look at them anymore...
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keep yourself well away from the Aprillias... nothing but trouble :thumbsdown:
 
The KTM 690 is not as trail orientated as the 610/630. It is better on the tarmac though. Husky is aiming at 15 to 20% bitumen and the balance off road. The KTM is closer to 50/50. A recent review in Aust. on the 630 had it all over the 690 in the handling, tracking and suspension aspects off road but the motor was noticably softer. That said they did imply the motor was good, just not as much grunt as the 690 (what would you expect).
 
Mine just seems to get better, (08 7500 miles). I was in the woods yesterday trying to connect up some roads in the forest for a local dual sport run. These roads are water barred from one end to the other, and pretty grown up with grass and weeds, washed out on the hills. Found the connection and turned back to ride back thru and really kept it hammered, and again was amazed how well this bike handles. The bike flies well (no huge air) no quirks, plenty of power. Broke my first plastic on the right side, slid thru a downed tree top.(pine straw is slick)

Love this bike.

Only problem I've had is the blinkers. Something in the switch. Big jolt, they quit, hit another, they go back to working. No biggie.
 
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