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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Strada wheels on my Terra

Rapid Dog said:
I wonder if any of the G650 bikes wheels will fit. I've source a rear Strada but not a front.
For road play the 21" front doesn't add any advantage that's for sure. I bet it's a fun(er) bike with those wheels...
I doubt I'll do much dirt with this bike if I decide to keep it a while.

Anyone out there wanting to move their extra Strada wheels, ket me know...
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The cast G650GS wheels and the Husky Strada wheels are the same/identical.
The ones I run came from GS's
All the G650GS wheels are compatible with our bikes, spoked and cast.
The later F650GS (singles) wheels are too.
 
Rapid Dog said:
what tires are on your casties Matt?
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Hey RapidDog. Mine is the 100% stock Strada set up. Came of a barely used bike.

That means Metzeler Tourance Next tires in 110/80/19 and 140/80/17.
Tire pressure
Front (31.29 psi)
Rear (28.45 psi)

TERRA stock was 90/90/21 and either 140/80 17” or 140/80/18”
Front (28.45 psi)
Rear (35.56 psi)




Matt
 
...yeah shucks, sell me yours...:thinking:
I found a rear cast but can't seem to find a front.
I really don't want to go with tubes...
 
Matt Crawley said:
Not quite. Speedo is measured at the rear tire and is a percentage change. 17" rear is less than 4% smaller than 18" so less than 4mph @ 100mph or less than 2 mph @ 50mph.
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You might want to do some real-world checking. For one, you are correct, the speed is measured at the rear tire. And regardless of wheel size, the O.D. of the rear Strada tire is a lot smaller than the O.D. of the rear Terra tire. Instead of calculating what engineers and scientists think my speedometer differences should be, I just looked at my GPS. I am 5 mph off at 60 mph. Your mileage may vary, but not by very much, since we both moved from the same exact set-up to the same exact set-up.
 
MadDogTR said:
You might want to do some real-world checking. For one, you are correct, the speed is measured at the rear tire. And regardless of wheel size, the O.D. of the rear Strada tire is a lot smaller than the O.D. of the rear Terra tire. Instead of calculating what engineers and scientists think my speedometer differences should be, I just looked at my GPS. I am 5 mph off at 60 mph. Your mileage may vary, but not by very much, since we both moved from the same exact set-up to the same exact set-up.
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Your "real-world" numbers are only real world to your bike, your tire inflation, your overall tire wear and your GPS. Sometimes real-world is best and sometimes generic numbers are. :cheers:

Wondering if your GPS and Terra speedo readout are identical? If so that is pretty amazing because the factory speedo is usually off by a little.

Also wondering if the speedos on the Stradas and 17" Terras are calibrated differently than the 18" Terra. EG - My 2001 Chevy has three different tire size speedo tables inside the ECU because it shipped with three different tire configs. Perhaps a scan tool could switch speedo calibrations. BMW must have done something to correct because I doubt it's legal to sell a vehicle with the 8-10% speedometer error your are reporting.


Matt
 
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