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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Husky dealers sending back moss tools?

Toyboy said:
Been occasionally reading the MOSS tool thread and can certainly appreciate some of the thoughts and comments about it's continued availability and supporting the TR650. One thing that I have not read and please don't pound on me if i missed it, but the GS911 is a diagnostic set up that is readily available over the counter and can be purchased privately for unlimited VINS or up to 5 vin numbers that can be stored. One is obviously cheaper than the other.
Quite a few BMW riders buy them to avoid needing the dealer etc due to cost and distance. Anyone looked into this?
It works for a wide variety of BMW models, including the G650GS so there is no reason at all that it will not work here on the TR. They are about 300 last I remembered and are for sale thru "Ted Porter's Beemer shop" on the West coast, possibly in the Seattle area. Easy google. If someone lives near him, maybe they can run over there, have him confirm it's functionality etc and let us know? Just a thought....
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They need bike specific software. I seem to recall reading that the connector wasn't a match either, but I could be imagining that. The biggest issue is that the Husky has a completely different ECU by a complete different manufacturer, so there's a fair amount of reverse engineering that needs to happen. I've had the GS-911, used it on my boxers, and it's great. I'm not sure we have the collective volume to convince them to do a TR version of the host software.
 
krussell said:
I'm not sure we have the collective volume to convince them to do a TR version of the host software.
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Maybe we don't (North America) But with "all" the TR's & Nuda's world wide...something will get done.
I'm not worried...hell KTM still might cough up a new ECU for all of us yet...ya never know.:popcorn:
 
Toyboy said:
Been occasionally reading the MOSS tool thread and can certainly appreciate some of the thoughts and comments about it's continued availability and supporting the TR650. One thing that I have not read and please don't pound on me if i missed it, but the GS911 is a diagnostic set up that is readily available over the counter and can be purchased privately for unlimited VINS or up to 5 vin numbers that can be stored. One is obviously cheaper than the other.
Quite a few BMW riders buy them to avoid needing the dealer etc due to cost and distance. Anyone looked into this?
It works for a wide variety of BMW models, including the G650GS so there is no reason at all that it will not work here on the TR. They are about 300 last I remembered and are for sale thru "Ted Porter's Beemer shop" on the West coast, possibly in the Seattle area. Easy google. If someone lives near him, maybe they can run over there, have him confirm it's functionality etc and let us know? Just a thought....
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I believe this option has been discussed somewhere else, and the company needs a bike to fiddle with to make sure their tool works with it. Note also that although the TR650 engine is very similar to the BMW 650s, there are differences, including, I believe, the ECU. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

EDIT: krussel beat me before I refreshed the thread.
 
oregonsage said:
5100 Scotts Valley Dr Scotts Valley, CA 95066

Would be a nice day trip for either: Coffee seeking a respite from the pressure at Cafe Husky World Headquarters up Napa-ish way.... or Woodschick from her secret hideaway in Oakland....and no doubt a few others in the SF Bay area.
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Beemershop, a great place by the way, is just the us distributor.

http://www.hexcode.co.za/

The manufacturer is in South Africa. I'm not sure where they need the bike. They are usually at the BMW rally, which is this weekend in Salem, OR. If anyone is going, please stop by and inquire. I haven't decided if I'm going or not. Admission is not bad, but I usually end up finding a few hundred $ of stuff I must have and miss out on quality riding time.
 
krussell said:
Beemershop, a great place by the way, is just the us distributor.

http://www.hexcode.co.za/

The manufacturer is in South Africa. I'm not sure where they need the bike. They are usually at the BMW rally, which is this weekend in Salem, OR. If anyone is going, please stop by and inquire. I haven't decided if I'm going or not. Admission is not bad, but I usually end up finding a few hundred $ of stuff I must have and miss out on quality riding time.
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I nominate Kelly to go :-) I went last time it was in Redmond Oregon...took my TE610 to make sure I didnt quite fit in ;)
 
I went for the whole thing in Redmond. New toolkit, new Arai helmet, new windshield, new bag liners. An expensive weekend. Good riding, clinics, entertainment, and beer though.

Based on all the TR love I've been getting in random street encounters, I'd be terrified to ride it in for fear of creating some sort of mob scene.
 
Spent some time yesterday visiting with the owner at the dealer where I bought my Terra. Big D Motorsports in Woodland Park, CO has no intention of getting rid of their MOSS tool. This guy is great. He actually told me he felt it would be immoral and unethical to sell someone a bike and not support it. Now I just hope BMW or KTM continue to support those dealers that choose to keep the MOSS.
 
Motosportz said:
After riding my TR650 a good bit this weekend I'm glad I snagged one of these amazing bikes before they are gone. I really like mine. It is a huge shame these bikes are going away. Its a great platform. I am also fortunate enough to have a great dealer in Bills here which puts me at ease. We will get through whatever it needs, that i am sure of. Go enjoy your bike. Someone will sort issues out as they arise.
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My thoughts exactly.
 
Maybe we all should adopt this attitude and the world will fix itself. Is this not the head in the sand thing? Let somebody else worry about it, I'm along for the free ride. As long as I got mine screw you all. phtttt
 
mag00 said:
Maybe we all should adopt this attitude and the world will fix itself. Is this not the head in the sand thing? Let somebody else worry about it, I'm along for the free ride. As long as I got mine screw you all. phtttt
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magOO, the Tucson sun most be getting to you. Lifes to short for this sort of whinning. This is a brand new bike and there is going to be hickups. Just sell your bike and buy a drz or something thats been out for a while and you wont have any problems. I did get mine and I love it!
 
mag00 said:
Maybe we all should adopt this attitude and the world will fix itself. Is this not the head in the sand thing? Let somebody else worry about it, I'm along for the free ride. As long as I got mine screw you all. phtttt
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Your TR650 must be from a bad batch, because everyone else who bought one can't stop raving about it.
 
nev.. said:
Your TR650 must be from a bad batch, because everyone else who bought one can't stop raving about it.
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Mag00 did not say his bike was not running correctly in the post you quoted (though he may have somewhere else).

He was simply trying to comment on other peoples lack of concern with regards to the MOSS.
 
Thursday, I went to the Husky/KTM dealer in Fort Mill SC. The service department told me that they sent their computer back because it cost $6,000.00. I told them they might want to let the sales department know because they have a Strata sitting in the showroom.
 
JTM said:
Thursday, I went to the Husky/KTM dealer in Fort Mill SC. The service department told me that they sent their computer back because it cost $6,000.00. I told them they might want to let the sales department know because they have a Strata sitting in the showroom.
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Did you ask them how they felt about being able to keep your bike maintained without it? I wonder if the dealers that do choose to return the Moss computer are confident they can maintain the bike without it. Seems like short of a computer failure, the Moss is mostly a fault identifier anyway. I am not up on all that the MOSS does but that has been my impression.
Let the grilling of my ineptitude begin by all that know better than I.
 
I think some people are too worried about the moss tool. I have over 2000miles on my bike, it's never been hooked up and it's fine.
 
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