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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Bmw 650X Challenge circa 2007

K5PL5 said:
Am I thinking in the wrong direction here...? Why not buy a TE449 or 511? Same engine, good platform. Or.. a TC449 and make it street legal..if you want a more aggressive offroader of a dual sport?
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I am not sure it you really meant it this way, but the 449/511 engines are not even close to the same as the 650's

They are race bike engines, with race bike maintenance/rebuild intervals and race bike gear ratios.

The 650's are street bike engines, with street bike maintenance intervals (no rebuilds) and broad gear ratios.
The 650's can be 100,000+ mile engines.
 
Ogre_fl said:
I am not sure it you really meant it this way, but the 449/511 engines are not even close to the same as the 650's

They are race bike engines, with race bike maintenance/rebuild intervals and race bike gear ratios.

The 650's are street bike engines, with street bike maintenance intervals (no rebuilds) and broad gear ratios.
The 650's can be 100,000+ mile engines.
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You are actually correct haha. I was thinking G450. My bad.
Is the 650 based on the Rotax engine in the F650s?
 
Yes, the G650X engine was based on the original Rotax design of the F650's
Similar to our TR 650's now.
 
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