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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
And not to mention you can get a TE for less than half the money. That's a LOT of coin!!
Yes you're right
I I'm sitting at about 7500 miles on mine, it's 6 years old this year. Obviously it mostly sits in the garage. Oh well!
Concerning to milesage, your bike is still a teenager
I'm starting this season at close to 16,000 miles on mine. I still feel the same: no other bike I've enjoyed as much, but no other bike I've trusted less. That's not entirely fair, though, because overall the bike hasn't let me down in any significant way. It's just the niggling things that have, at times, diminished confidence. Overall I've had a good run of it w/ the 630:
- Two blown left hand radiators- kind of pricey. The OEM's just can't be trusted. This is now a known issue.
- Leaking fuel pump mount. Known issue, now, with no great confidence inspiring fix. Pain to get sealed up but it's held. Still, it's always on my mind and constantly checking it.
- Leaking clutch master cylinder- also a now known issue. I did the rebuild kit and it's held up fine.
- A frayed wiring harness where it enters the VR. Little more than an annoyance, and a bit of a pain to fix, but it did strand me...and it's now an on-going point of concern.
- Cracked engine casing from the RH oil screen tip coming loose and being hammered through the bottom of the casing. That was VERY expensive/time consuming.
- A short somewhere in the tail I still haven't found (and have yet tried hard enough to find, to be honest)- so the right turn signal, in back, doesn't work. I really need to work on that- the thing hasn't been inspected in two years because of that.
- Vent pipe from valve cover gasket to airbox shrunk- had to replace. Easy/no big deal.
Also did the clutch hub fix, of course, but I see that as part of the deal w/ these bikes...just has to be done. I pulled it about a thousand miles ago to inspect and the Indy Unlimited washers are holding up pretty well. I think they're certainly diminishing, but by no more than a third.
I'm sure there are other things I've forgotten, but clearly they'd be minor. And again in all fairness to the bike I've not been easy on it. It's done a lot of tarmac, and each time I ride it I ride it pretty enthusiastically- not abusively but I sure do get into it. Fun, fun bike.
. 18.000 km and the only problems I've had are:
What type of oil did you use?
I'm curios about why you decided to come back to HVA after the KTM? If you don't mind me asking
Honestly I was done with supermotos. I was on an RC390 and RSV4, and those were great for commuting and track duties. Now that I've decided to dedicate the RC390 for track only, I see the value in supermotos again. The 690 was always so twitchy and wasn't great around town. I was happy to try another bigger "tamer" supermoto. It's definitely less power but better for city commuting duties.
