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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

SMS vs TE sidestand? the same?

B

bushwa

Husqvarna
AA Class
I'm in the process of converting my TE to SM. I'm trying to make it easy to switch back and forth between knobbies on the dirt wheels and sport tires on the SM wheels. I have the rotors and gearing figured out, 17's on the bike, and trying to decide what to do with the side stand. I "fixed" my side stand earlier in the year so it didn't go so far forward and the bike stayed a little more upright. (it was threatening to topple over at any second, especially with any gear on the back). Now, with the SM wheels, it's too far upright. I considered get a stand from the SM, but looking at the parts list, it would appear both models use the same stand. Is this true?

My other thought is to remove about 5/8" from the stand and have the foot welded back on. This would work for the SM setup.
I would then fab a 5/8" aluminium block. Drill and tap the stock foot, and bolt the foot extension to the bottom of the stock foot when I have the TE wheels on.

What have others done?

Thanks.
 
I use a Cigar Mikes center stand, which is invaluable when swapping between TE and SM mode.
Otherwise, I am picky where I park it.

On another bike, I have made a screw-on foot for the sidestand that gives more height and less slinking in soft stuff.
 
Yea. I figure if i left the stand the way it was it would have been just ok for double duty. I think I might just mod it as mentioned so it's easy to unbolt the pad. At least the angle is better. Center stand eh? I'll have to check that out. Using my floor jack is just plain unstable, and hanging it from the rafters is a pain in the ass. Thanks!
 
I put a 630 stand on my SM610. It's perfect except when I have a full "touring load" squatting it, then I have to be careful of where I park.
 
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