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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Pics of your 610!

Bopping around Pine Barens with my buddy on his WR250
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Wow...8 years old now
The Day I bought it...

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8 years on...

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Thats the original IMS tank I bought when I first got it.

It was fully REBUILT top and bottom at 12,000klm due to an unfortunate hydro lock incident (Bent rod)
It has just tipped over 40,000klm on the same rebuild.
Probably due for a top end and Timing chain.

Until now I cant see there being a Dual sport motorcycle this good. I reckon this new AJP PR7 is probably the closest thing in the pipeline.

Thankyou my beautiful 2006 TE610e....You are the BEST!!!

Stu
 
This is my fully adventurised "new to me" 2008 TE610ie. The previous own did all the hard work with some great mods especially the 25L Safari Tank, Lynx R fairing and Seat Concepts re-padding. Now the Red Devil is ready to go anywhere.
 

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I've been running enough fire roads and single track lately, that I decided to get a 21" front and try it out... Boy what a difference! She floats over potholes / roots / large rocks, and holds a better line in loose gravel. I also got a 18" rear and tried that for a while. I ended up switching back to the SM rear and keeping the TE front. So it's currently a bit of a hybrid setup but handles wonderfully on pavement, gravel, dirt, trails, everything! :)
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darnold87 said:
I've been running enough fire roads and single track lately, that I decided to get a 21" front and try it out... Boy what a difference! She floats over potholes / roots / large rocks, and holds a better line in loose gravel. I also got a 18" rear and tried that for a while. I ended up switching back to the SM rear and keeping the TE front. So it's currently a bit of a hybrid setup but handles wonderfully on pavement, gravel, dirt, trails, everything! :)
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Went that setup myself except I put the SM disk on the 21" wheel. No messing with callipers but need to be careful in deep ruts with rocks about v
 
Scudster - I wanted to go that route but was warned I'd need to grind the caliper and change the spacing on the front wheel (due to clearance between the huge caliper and the spokes of the 21" front wheel)... What did it take for you to run the SM front rotor?
 
darnold87 said:
Scudster - I wanted to go that route but was warned I'd need to grind the caliper and change the spacing on the front wheel (due to clearance between the huge caliper and the spokes of the 21" front wheel)... What did it take for you to run the SM front rotor?
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No modifications required for me. The hub on both the SM and TE wheels are the same. The spokes do come very close to the caliper. Not certain if there was a little shaved off the back off the caliper or not.
There is another model which seems to be an SM/TE hybrid called the LT which had a 17" rear and a 21" front with a large rotor.
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darnold87 said:
Scudster - I wanted to go that route but was warned I'd need to grind the caliper and change the spacing on the front wheel (due to clearance between the huge caliper and the spokes of the 21" front wheel)... What did it take for you to run the SM front rotor?
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On my 06 SM I did grind caliper and move front wheel to left about 3mm. Maybe on earlier models it's bit different
 
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