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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

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17" front wheel and ABS

I can't read German.

The tr650 parts catalog shows the same tone wheel/abs ring part number for the 19" strada and the 21" terra. Interesting they call for a different ring going from 21 to 17 on the Beemer. Maybe the tr can "get by" with the same ring for 19 and 21? Maybe the different ring for the 17 is more of a workaround to fake the system into thinking it has a different wheel?
 
That means there exists a ring to put on a 17" more to the point. I might just have to hunt down this one and then I can get my BST wheels ( 17" front and back)
 
I am using a 19in ABS ring on a 21 inch front with no issues at all. I have over 3000 miles with this setup on the bike.
 
hasenpfeffer said:
Interesting they call for a different ring going from 21 to 17 on the Beemer. Maybe the tr can "get by" with the same ring for 19 and 21?
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Do you have a link for that? I'm running a 21 front and 17 rear with the stock TR rings and do get errors as I wear down rear tires....I *think* it's right on the edge of working. If BMW has a different ring for the 17 I *think* that might work better.
 
I believe the original site is talking about only the front tire. My post is assuming they are talking about going from 21 or 19 front to 17 front. Nothing about the rear. Maybe I'm wrong?
 
I'm not sure what link you are looking for?

The original posted link looks to have a part number for an abs ring in the description if that is what you're after. There is also an abs ring in the related products at the bottom. But, I still can't read German, so I may be wrong about what I'm looking at.
 
hasenpfeffer said:
I'm not sure what link you are looking for?

The original posted link looks to have a part number for an abs ring in the description if that is what you're after. There is also an abs ring in the related products at the bottom. But, I still can't read German, so I may be wrong about what I'm looking at.
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You're not wrong.
Google translate might do the trick
 
hasenpfeffer said:
I'm not sure what link you are looking for?

The original posted link looks to have a part number for an abs ring in the description if that is what you're after. There is also an abs ring in the related products at the bottom. But, I still can't read German, so I may be wrong about what I'm looking at.
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Ahh! I thought you were referring to another online place.

I did translate the page and believe the ABS rings are different between 19" (regular F650GS rims) and the 21" (Dakar F650GS rims). I think the Strada comes with the first and if you convert to a 21" front like I did....the issue of errors seems to be validated by this English version. $95.00 isn't cheap, but I'm going to do some counting for comparisons and may buy one.

Thanks!
 
Ignaciob said:
Do you have a link for that? I'm running a 21 front and 17 rear with the stock TR rings and do get errors as I wear down rear tires....I *think* it's right on the edge of working. If BMW has a different ring for the 17 I *think* that might work better.
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Here's the link for the other (21->17) ABS ring
http://www.wunderlich.de/shop/de/abs-ring.html
Price includes 19% German sales tax (which should be taken off when the item is sold to overseas)
Wunderlich items are also available through many resellers which are generally more flexible with overseas-sales.



If you guys need anything translated into or from German....shoot me a pm.
Fluent and up with most of the tech-terms.
 
hasenpfeffer said:
I believe the original site is talking about only the front tire. My post is assuming they are talking about going from 21 or 19 front to 17 front. Nothing about the rear. Maybe I'm wrong?
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Correct, the Wunderlich page only relates to front wheels.
Their mainstay are parts for BMW's...who never brought out a 650GS with an 18" rear.
 
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