• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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TE to SM mod

feef

feef

Husqvarna
A Class
I'm considering modifying my 'spare' TE into a Supermoto. At least in that guise I'll use it on the road while it's in one piece. I don't really have a need for a second off-road bike as my rally bike does all that.

Other than wheels, what would anyone else recommend changing to a TE to make it more SM like? I'm not bothered about the different gearing, I can get gearing I like enough by playing with sprockets.

I'm considering just getting the TE hubs laced to SM rims. I suppose the speedo calibration will be out, but I'm not too fussed about that.
 
Thanks.

I'll see if I can source some rims in the UK first tho.

Question tho : why are rims listed as bike specific? Surely all that matters is the spoke count, diameter and width if it's going to get laced onto a stock hub?
 
They need spacers to suit disc location and disc to sprocket width, also the Caliper relocation bracket for the larger brake disc.
 
If I'm keeping the TE hubs, and so using the TE disks and brakes, then why do I need to relocate anything?
 
That's the plan. As the 'spare' TE is a potential donor bike for parts on the rally bike, especially if/when I get into international events, I want to keep it as close to a stock TE as possible. SM rims on the TE hubs seems the simplest and quickest solution.
 
ThanKs for that.

If I was to go down that route, I'd probably fabricate my own bracket.
 
Sizzler said:
No , on the 630 that is not an option. It is the same speedo unit on both, but once it is set at the factory, that is it.
I use a Trailtech Vapor dash to allow me to swap wheels.
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Ah didn't know that.
feef said:
Nice.. although machining spacers and whatnot is still more involved than just getting a different rim on a stock hub :)

I do have some spare wheels kicking about here, I might have a look at this as an option. Think all my cast road wheels are twin disk tho.
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Twin disc is OK, just remove the unused one, if you're real fancy, make a block-off plate for it.
 
I have a TE 2008 with both wheel sets. I purchased them with the spacers / relocation bracket, it was pretty easy to install. The one piece that was tricky is that there was no good anchor for the speedo magnet on my new wheelset, I tried several solutions and eventually got my shop to make a bracket, but even that doesn't work at high speed. The SM wheelset is a winner on the motorway, though, especially two-up. But in town going around tight corners the SM's don't feel as stable compared to my TE wheels, the bike shimmies, is sensitive and oversteers - if you are planning on keeping them on all the time I would adjust the fork length to be shorter and stiffen up the suspension. I've found I actually prefer the TE wheels in town, and only put on the SMs on long road hauls.
 
JonDirt said:
if you are planning on keeping them on all the time I would adjust the fork length to be shorter and stiffen up the suspension. I've found I actually prefer the TE wheels in town, and only put on the SMs on long road hauls.
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Even on the rally bike I have the forks dropped through the yokes by 5-6mm so I'd probably set up the other bike in at least the same way, if not more aggressively. The wheel magnet is another reason I think I might just get SM rims built onto the TE hubs, as all that's taken care of already.

Anyway, that idea's taken a back burner for now, I'm off to the Hafren Rally. 140 miles of off-road racing in deepest, darkest Wales :)
 
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