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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TR650 Mods

Had Big D Motorsports in Woodland Park CO do the MOSS treatment today. They reflashed the ecu, the stepper motor and the mixer. Didnt have riding gear but the tech tested and said it was perfect now. No stumbles anymore. Ryan, the tech, is just back from school on the Terra and had the opportunity to tear the engine all the way down and back again. They compared it to the bmw 650 and there are lots of internal differences, especially in a better oiling system. He did say that the ecu would know if the evap system was missing but not sure if leaving the servo in place would fool it. Monday the rack fabrication begins! By the way Big D Motorsports is Five Star all the way!

One more thing. Ryan said that setting the valves in class took six hours the first time. Lots of things to take apart but maybe five hours next time. After the first set they are good for 20 k. Good stuff.
 
6 hours...OUCH! I wonder if Clymer or anyone else will have a shop manual for the TR? I guess BMW and/or KTM should have one available soon.
 
Kenneth Webb said:
Had Big D Motorsports in Woodland Park CO do the MOSS treatment today. They reflashed the ecu, the stepper motor and the mixer. Didnt have riding gear but the tech tested and said it was perfect now. No stumbles anymore. Ryan, the tech, is just back from school on the Terra and had the opportunity to tear the engine all the way down and back again. They compared it to the bmw 650 and there are lots of internal differences, especially in a better oiling system. He did say that the ecu would know if the evap system was missing but not sure if leaving the servo in place would fool it. Monday the rack fabrication begins! By the way Big D Motorsports is Five Star all the way!

One more thing. Ryan said that setting the valves in class took six hours the first time. Lots of things to take apart but maybe five hours next time. After the first set they are good for 20 k. Good stuff.
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I am very lucky to be only 9 miles from Big D Motorsports. They are a top notch dealer. If I remember right, your bike was a no start situation when you brought it in to Big D's, so I am a little concerned as to what happened in the first place? Did Ryan say anything about it?

Monday is right around the corner Ken.....I am soooo ready!:D
 
It was a loose battery connection! Always check the simple things first! Terminals felt tight with a screwdriver but were loose anyway. The MOSS identified that fault right off the bat. See you Monday morning after breakfast. I will call you from Grandmothers Cafe in WP when I finish there.
 
Here are pics of a windscreen from a old Multistrada that I think might be serviceable for the TR. Note the nylon stand-offs that I can trim to adjust the angle of attack. Next step is to trim it some to get rid of the original mounting holes etc.

I gave it a quick ride and it pushes the air up to about mid-helmet, about what I expected, and should making riding at speed more enjoyable.

Anyone have experience cutting Lexan?

Thanks
Rich in PLacitas

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Looks nice, Rich. Maybe a bit short. Let us know how the turbulence is on your head. I just hate buffeting noise on my head. I've gone back to the drawing board with my mod. Still trying to solve it. In meantime, the clean smooth air without any shield has been the best option.

Lexan should cut fine with a dremmel. Use a thin cutting wheel and test cut a little off the one of the lower corners. That won't hurt anything and gives you a little practice. Then, you should be able to finish sand it by hand with either fine sand paper or emory cloth. I've done this several times.

HF
 
Thanks HF I'll give the dremel a try. I wound it up to about 65 with no buffeting, will see what it does at 80.
 
fleche phoenix said:
How naughty is that ! Not to mention practical, some nasty little teeth to hook up with your deployment foot......marvelous!
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It's funny you mention that...it's very similar to what Ken said. It's just so cool and totally worth the risk to me! At least if I get cut up it will be by my own hand.:D.

We promised a thread, and we will get to it, but were very busy yesterday getting set up and putting our heads together and making sure we were on the same page. I did get more done on the rear racks for my bike and Ken turned the mounting lugs for the racks.

Ken is welcome here anytime!
 
FabOneUp said:
It's funny you mention that...it's very similar to what Ken said. It's just so cool and totally worth the risk to me! At least if I get cut up it will be by my own hand.:D.

We promised a thread, and we will get to it, but were very busy yesterday getting set up and putting our heads together and making sure we were on the same page. I did get more done on the rear racks for my bike and Ken turned the mounting lugs for the racks.

Ken is welcome here anytime!
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Well, i was certainly seeing it from the more practicaL stand point. Just seemed those little teeth would give your deployment foot something to dig into, more ease of operation. Most ingenious!
 
fleche phoenix said:
Well, i was certainly seeing it from the more practicaL stand point. Just seemed those little teeth would give your deployment foot something to dig into, more ease of operation. Most ingenious!
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Sorry fleche, I misunderstood. Cutting my leg wide open was the first thing to come to mind since Ken mentioned it. These racks should be done today.
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FabOneUp said:
Sorry fleche, I misunderstood. Cutting my leg wide open was the first thing to come to mind since Ken mentioned it. These racks should be done today.
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I think a good many folk looking forward to seeing what direction you're heading with these. Also hoping you'll manage enough time to add wings to the Motosportz bash plate. Anyhow, all tid bits appreciated, lovin' it thus far, may the welding gods be with you!
 
Here's my windshield ver2.0 (lexan, handcut/bent), handguards(Hus), gps, and powerlet outlet - cover closed, just visible left dash, behind the white windshield 'holder'. There's still room over near there for my to-be-installled heated grips switch.

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Love the energy y'all are putting into the mods for this new bike. Just wondering if anyone has contemplated a fork/shock swap. I've seen some nice suspension set-ups resulting from guys picking up yamaha/honda forks off ebay (would need to be 46mm for the tr, I believe), but I'm not sure how to be sure the brake mounts would line up properly. I've changed fork seals, bushings, and oil, but never a complete swap-- seems like the only way to get more than 7.5 inches of travel out of a TR650. Again, I'm a little out of my league here, so I'm hoping some of you dirt bike guys can enlighten me (or just get me started).

Anyone else want to address this major (but only) shortcoming of the TR's with me?
 
I'm not the bloke to answer the question, but it's my biggest gripe with the bike, especially the front end. Though i might go as far to say oil weight and springs could go a long way to improve the Terra's off road ability. Seems to be a fine line between shorter travel for good road manners, and enough legs to soak up the off road excursions. Non adjustable doesn't make much sense on a DS period either end of the scale.
I'm sure it won't be long till someone hones in on a practical solution.
 
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