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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

SM conversion NOW WITH PICS

TE to SM

Looks good I did the same thing with mine.I ended up putting the 320mm brake on and what a difference,I don't think it will ever go back to TE mode.You can also pick up a stock front fender from a SM 450/510,they run the same head light as the TE's and are a better match.
 

Attachments

  • TeSm 012.jpg
    TeSm 012.jpg
    77.3 KB · Views: 65
  • TeSm 015.jpg
    TeSm 015.jpg
    79.4 KB · Views: 59
husky666;70030 said:
Looks good I did the same thing with mine.I ended up putting the 320mm brake on and what a difference,I don't think it will ever go back to TE mode.You can also pick up a stock front fender from a SM 450/510,they run the same head light as the TE's and are a better match.
Click to expand...

+1 on the big brakes. I've got an SM610 and the brakes are splendiferous! The 610 wouldn't be half the fun without the monster brakes. It's like having a hidden ace up your sleeve :thumbsup:



WoodsChick
 
husky666;70030 said:
Looks good I did the same thing with mine.I ended up putting the 320mm brake on and what a difference,I don't think it will ever go back to TE mode.You can also pick up a stock front fender from a SM 450/510,they run the same head light as the TE's and are a better match.
Click to expand...

Did you drill the carrier mount holes?
 
what driving lights are those?

Great looking bike.
I noticed the little driving lights.
Which ones are those? I would like to do the same thing on my 2007.
I picked up a cheap pair from Wally recently, but they are probably not worth mounting.
Thanks :thumbsup:
 
mtne;70049 said:
Did you drill the carrier mount holes?
Click to expand...
If you are you refering to the holes in the fork leg,No. I did drill an tap larger holes in the hub for the big rotor though,if I would have known how much better the braking would be I would have ordered the SM hub to begin with.
 
highball;70062 said:
Great looking bike.
I noticed the little driving lights.
Which ones are those? I would like to do the same thing on my 2007.
I picked up a cheap pair from Wally recently, but they are probably not worth mounting.
Thanks :thumbsup:
Click to expand...

All the lights are stock in the picture but I am installing an LED tail light today.I'm finally tired of looking at that oversized tail section.So far it looks awesome,just have to wire it up.
 
husky666;70130 said:
If you are you refering to the holes in the fork leg,No. I did drill an tap larger holes in the hub for the big rotor though,if I would have known how much better the braking would be I would have ordered the SM hub to begin with.
Click to expand...

Damn, in my case I'll have to drill out the smaller rotor from 6mm to 8mm when I get it. Then I'll check for offset and see if I need to make adjustments......... I guess I'll hold on to the SM brake setup for now, just in case....
 
mtne;70136 said:
Damn, in my case I'll have to drill out the smaller rotor from 6mm to 8mm when I get it. Then I'll check for offset and see if I need to make adjustments......... I guess I'll hold on to the SM brake setup for now, just in case....
Click to expand...

Drilling the TE rotor is no big deal,it's soft.I would be helpful to use a drill press or a mill.Be sure that the rotor is dead center in the caliper,a good way to do it is put the wheel on (axle not tight) and sqeeze the brake lever and put a strap around it while you measure the spacer clearance between the fork leg and spacer.
 
highball;70062 said:
Great looking bike.
I noticed the little driving lights.
Which ones are those? I would like to do the same thing on my 2007.
I picked up a cheap pair from Wally recently, but they are probably not worth mounting.
Thanks :thumbsup:
Click to expand...

The driving lights are Hella. They were originally 55w halogens that I converted to 35w HIDs. The beam is not tightly focused but they illuminate everything in front of you for about 75' really well.:thumbsup:
 
husky666;70131 said:
All the lights are stock in the picture but I am installing an LED tail light today.I'm finally tired of looking at that oversized tail section.So far it looks awesome,just have to wire it up.
Click to expand...

I think he was talking about the lights on my bike.
 
What is the pouch on the headlight cover used for please-looks interesting?
Are you going to put a small screen on for road riding?
 
ghte;70561 said:
What is the pouch on the headlight cover used for please-looks interesting?
Are you going to put a small screen on for road riding?
Click to expand...

The pouch on the headlight cover is just holding a few small items like the registration, sunglasses, spare gloves and such. It is held on with 4 gripper snaps. So far as adding a shield for road riding yes it has that option, the shield has double sided gripper snaps and attaches to the headlight cover by removing the pouch, the pouch can then be attached to the shield.
I have the bike set up for lots of different quick change operations and can go from dirt, to SM, to hwy cruiser with just a few minutes of reconfigureing.
Here it is in full highway trim.
100_1372.jpg
 
Now that is a great looking rig. Congratulations, you can now say its a triple sport bike now. Just love the screen and bags. looking forward to some posts on your long haul exploits.

Cheers.
 
ghte;70842 said:
Now that is a great looking rig. Congratulations, you can now say its a triple sport bike now. Just love the screen and bags. looking forward to some posts on your long haul exploits.

Cheers.
Click to expand...

I like the term "Supermotourer".:D
 
rajobigguy;70761 said:
So far as adding a shield for road riding yes it has that option, the shield has double sided gripper snaps and attaches to the headlight cover by removing the pouch, the pouch can then be attached to the shield.
100_1372.jpg
Click to expand...

Looks great!
What shield?
 
Raj
How much of a difference dose the faring gives you ?
I swear, sometimes it gets so windy over here it feels like am about to be blown off the bike… :thumbsdown:

Maybe I just need to eat some more ? :thinking:

:thumbsup:
 
Muddy Waters;70977 said:
Raj
How much of a difference dose the faring gives you ?
I swear, sometimes it gets so windy over here it feels like am about to be blown off the bike… :thumbsdown:

Maybe I just need to eat some more ? :thinking:

:thumbsup:
Click to expand...

It seems subtle at first but after about 1/2 hr. you notice that you're not feeling beat up by the wind buffeting. In short, it works great.
 
rajobigguy;25539 said:
OK guys and gals, here's the finished product. Thanks Kelly for helping me round up some parts and thanks to everyone else for there input.
There are a few things to be aware of when doing this conversion.
1. The offset on the SM rim is slightly different than that on a TE so the front spacer needs to be about 1/8" wider to center the wheel and yes the wheel has to be perfectly centered because there isn't much room between the sliders.
2. The TE caliper doesn't have enough float to make up the 1/8" difference with the wider spacer so you have to add some shims to the caliper mounting pads.
Click to expand...
1. was this spacer a husky item? I have a full set from an 07 SM510 and the front wheel is not centered and the axles/spacers that came with them are the same as my 610's from all measurements I took. I may just need a 1/8" wider spacer made/bought.

2. I am using a 320mm rotor and getting the caliper bracket from Husky, so not too worried there.

Nice ride!

723219376_76ohE-M.jpg
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top