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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Sava Tires

BikingEngineer

BikingEngineer

Husqvarna
AA Class
Anyone seen these tires? Seems like a good alternative to some of the DS tires out there, and it should fit the rear (150/70-17 instead of 140/80-18 is probably OK). Better tread life and being able to flip the rear based upon intended use would be a bonus.
 
It wont fit your bike.

A 17" tire wont fit an 18" rim.
I have even seen someone try that did not realize they had bought the wrong size.:lol:
 
Ogre_fl said:
It wont fit your bike.

A 17" tire wont fit an 18" rim.
I have even seen someone try that did not realize they had bought the wrong size.:lol:
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Good catch!

All American Terras are on 18" rims. Other Terras in the world (the ones with ABS) are on 17" rims these tires would technically work. Coincidentally, my Strada turned Terra with a GS650 Dakar rim would be able to use this tire, however I wouldn't consider it. A 150 on my narrowish 3.00" rim would be sub-optimal IMO and at $225.50 it's nearly twice as expensive as a TKC80 or Heidenau. Throw in shipping and it may be more than twice as much.
 
Where are you pricing tires?

Metzler Karoo 3 150/70 17 - $202
Heidenau K60 150/70 17 - $194
Continental TKC80 150/70 17 - $180

At worst, that's a 25% premium (not including shipping).

And note that the MC60 front is less expensive than any of the above fronts.
 
hasenpfeffer said:
Where are you pricing tires?

Metzler Karoo 3 150/70 17 - $202
Heidenau K60 150/70 17 - $194
Continental TKC80 150/70 17 - $180

At worst, that's a 25% premium (not including shipping).
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I was talking 140...not 150. I bought a 140/80 17 for $129 several months ago at Revzilla. I got a good deal! :) However, I see they're substantially more at $157.95 today....so only a 40% premium in this different size.

150 size less of a good deal, as you noted, at $180. But Sava's claim that they're cheaper than TKC 80's doesn't seem to contemplate at least Revzilla. (even before shipping) ;)
 
Right, I must have been looking at the Euro Terra Specs, brain fart there. Oh well, the search continues. I do mostly road riding anyway, so no urgent need for something blockier than the (horrible off-road) saharas.
 
i put the bridgstone battle axe bt45 tires on my terra and love them. went to a 150\70\18 on rear and same as stock on front.
 
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