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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

The TE630 may be the best adventure touring bike made!

bmah said:
Nope, I just set the sag. I've been meaning to check the balance of the front wheel, I'll check it when I mount the Mefo Super Explorer on the rear.
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I just finished balancing the front wheel & tire using a homemade balancer out of scrap parts. After dinner I'll go for a spirited ride on the highway and report back. Hopefully it's just a balance issue and not the fairing. organ donor mentioned how his shimmy went away after balancing.edit: wellllll, not sure if it helped...it still shimmys. smooth on some sections at 140...shimmy at 130:/
mnb said:
I like the custom windscreen cut! :thumbsup:
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Thanks!
bmah said:
Cool! I didn't even notice that with the Husky banner in the background. How's the airflow?
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Not much different than the Lynx shield. The cutouts don't cause any extra buffeting. Works great.
 
bmah said:
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Along the road from Baie Comeau to Manic 5 Dam. Very scenic and nice twisties!! Sorry about the Beverly Hillbillies extra fuel storage! It worked and the fuel was needed for the 400+ KMs between Goose Bay and Port Hope Simpson.
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YOU ROCK..........and so does your HUSKY!! :applause:

Speaking of fuel, what was your MPG along the trip??

Also, where did you buy your black tool thermos?? I was looking for one of those but can never find one. Somebody once said they are easily found at Home Depot but I never seem to encounter them.
 
oneleven said:
I just finished balancing the front wheel & tire using a homemade balancer out of scrap parts. After dinner I'll go for a spirited ride on the highway and report back. Hopefully it's just a balance issue and not the fairing. organ donor mentioned how his shimmy went away after balancing.

edit: wellllll, not sure if it helped...it still shimmys. smooth on some sections at 140...shimmy at 130 :/

Thanks!

Not much different than the Lynx shield. The cutouts don't cause any extra buffeting. Works great.
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The front wheel shimmy is now gone! It was definitely a balancing issue. Took it to the shop and the maestro spent his valuable time re-doing it correctly. It now goes up to 170 kmh (with no wobble) but I can only do up to 150 kmh without my head getting blown off.
 
I also just did a 3000ish mi trip with mine. Very similar set up except as you can see I don't have the Lynx and mine is in the shop (no idea what is wrong ).
I did have some issues
It boiled twice and I had to find new rear rubber to get home. And 400km from home It wouldn't start after a stop. No idea if the boiling is linked to the current issue of it not starting but I should find out this week. I ran the chain dry until I got on the tar on the way home and cleaned the air filter when I was out of the desert.

Aside from the issues I am really happy with the bike and will be taking it on other big rides after I sort out the current issues. I think the Lynx would be a bloody great addition not just for the highway but also in the desert. We were sitting on 130KPH (80mph) with max speed on the GPS being 155kph (95mph) and the wind blast got really old.

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Huskyfly said:
YOU ROCK..........and so does your HUSKY!! :applause:

Speaking of fuel, what was your MPG along the trip??

Also, where did you buy your black tool thermos?? I was looking for one of those but can never find one. Somebody once said they are easily found at Home Depot but I never seem to encounter them.
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I got 40-53 mpg. I was getting a bit over 40 mpg on the interstate at 110-120 km/hr.
I bought the "instruction manual holder" at agrisupply.com it was about $5.
 
Tagati said:
I also just did a 3000ish mi trip with mine. Very similar set up except as you can see I don't have the Lynx and mine is in the shop (no idea what is wrong ).
I did have some issues
It boiled twice and I had to find new rear rubber to get home. And 400km from home It wouldn't start after a stop. No idea if the boiling is linked to the current issue of it not starting but I should find out this week. I ran the chain dry until I got on the tar on the way home and cleaned the air filter when I was out of the desert.

Aside from the issues I am really happy with the bike and will be taking it on other big rides after I sort out the current issues. I think the Lynx would be a bloody great addition not just for the highway but also in the desert. We were sitting on 130KPH (80mph) with max speed on the GPS being 155kph (95mph) and the wind blast got really old.

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We have almost an identical setup! I really wish that I had a larger fuel tank for this trip. Did you find that the handling of the bike suffered with the large fuel tank?
 
No she handled really well. I had thought about getting a steering dampener before the trip but it turned out I didn't need it. I must say Looking at your bike and reading your experience has me sold on the Lynx.
 
Anything 110 km/h and above is very tiring with the stock setup. The Lynx is noticeably more comfortable.
 
bmah and Tagati, you guys should really post up in the "Ride Reports" forum! Your photos and experiences are too cool to be hidden away in the 610/630 forum, where folks that don't have 610's/630's might not see them :)

Good stuff from both of you! :thumbsup:
 
bmah said:
JT you were an inspiration for my taking the Husky on this trip. I copied your luggage setup. Thanks for the shop manual download!
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Glad to help.

When I was bike shopping, what prompted me to go with the Husky was a ride report over on ADVRider. A guy there spent 3-4 months touring Mexico on his TE610.

I was either getting a KTM 690 Enduro, Suzuki DRZ400S, Yamaha WR250R or the TE630.

There's a KTM dealer right down the street. When I asked them about getting me a 690, they pretty much refused. So, after reading that ride report over on ADV, I had Hall's ship me a 630. I got mine early last year and ended up paying full MSRP. Vin #15 :)

Had the KTM dealer not blown me off, I'd probably be riding a 690 right now.
 
WoodsChick said:
bmah and Tagati, you guys should really post up in the "Ride Reports" forum! Your photos and experiences are too cool to be hidden away in the 610/630 forum, where folks that don't have 610's/630's might not see them :)

Good stuff from both of you! :thumbsup:
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There is a 'Ride Reports' forum?
 
jtemple said:
Glad to help.

When I was bike shopping, what prompted me to go with the Husky was a ride report over on ADVRider. A guy there spent 3-4 months touring Mexico on his TE610.

I was either getting a KTM 690 Enduro, Suzuki DRZ400S, Yamaha WR250R or the TE630.

There's a KTM dealer right down the street. When I asked them about getting me a 690, they pretty much refused. So, after reading that ride report over on ADV, I had Hall's ship me a 630. I got mine early last year and ended up paying full MSRP. Vin #15 :)

Had the KTM dealer not blown me off, I'd probably be riding a 690 right now.
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I was looking at the same models and it came down to the Husky or a used 690. The Suzuki and Yamaha would have been too stressed to do the amount of road riding that I did on this trip. IMHO
 
I have read stories of it being done on both the Suzuki and the Yamaha. My only concern is the gearbox on the Suzuki and the displacement being so small on the Yamaha. I know it makes great power for a 250, but at the end of the day, it's still a 250.
 
bmah said:
There is a 'Ride Reports' forum?
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Yep! Go click on Forums at the top of the page, scroll down to General, and there it is..."Get Togethers and Ride Reports." It's kinda my home away from home :D

Edit: I'll probably be starting another ride report there later today :)
 
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