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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

About to pull the trigger on a Terra... a few questions

Have done 17000km on mine now Jim. A few minor electrical probs . No pod mod , no valve check , leave bike alone except for maintence. Don't use it as an enduro type ride and it will last forever.
Mine starts like new every time, doesn't stall , same plugs , love it.
You won't regret it
 
Congrats on the bike Jim. There are plenty of TR650 owners around Melbourne. In Nov 2014 we managed a gathering of 10 TR650s from this forum in Kinglake. Must be about due for another one.

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I think you're going to love it, Jim. I've had mine since new and it's probably the best all around bike I've ever owned (Number 7 in 14 years), no plans of selling mine anytime soon. Enjoy!
 
Thanks All

Got some new tyres going on this Saturday (if Pablo's Tyres is able to get them in by then). Went for the Mitas E-07 because I couldn't get the Tractionators.

Assuming I get the tyres, I'll be taking it for a run up through the dirt roads above Hurstbridge this weekend. I'll be taking it easy - I've been riding road bikes for the last 20 years with only the occasional excursion onto dirt, and will need to revive my dirt skills.

I stumbled across a website for a bicycle group called Gravel Grinders that has GPX files for a bunch of dirt road rides around Melbourne averaging around 70kms (a nice afternoon ride). Website here http://melbournegravelgrinders.blogspot.com.au/

Also found out that the BMW Motorcycle Club of Victoria (of which I'm a member) has a GS-911 Wifi Professional and that there's a Service Day later this month.

I'm definitely in for any Melbourne Terra ride

Jim
 
JimKelly said:
Thanks All

Got some new tyres going on this Saturday (if Pablo's Tyres is able to get them in by then). Went for the Mitas E-07 because I couldn't get the Tractionators.

Assuming I get the tyres, I'll be taking it for a run up through the dirt roads above Hurstbridge this weekend. I'll be taking it easy - I've been riding road bikes for the last 20 years with only the occasional excursion onto dirt, and will need to revive my dirt skills.

I stumbled across a website for a bicycle group called Gravel Grinders that has GPX files for a bunch of dirt road rides around Melbourne averaging around 70kms (a nice afternoon ride). Website here http://melbournegravelgrinders.blogspot.com.au/

Also found out that the BMW Motorcycle Club of Victoria (of which I'm a member) has a GS-911 Wifi Professional and that there's a Service Day later this month.

I'm definitely in for any Melbourne Terra ride

Jim
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A mate of mine just got Tractionators fitted at MotoGC in Thomastown this week for his Africa Twin. But the E07s are very good too.
 
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