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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

What to look for/ask about when buying a used TR650?

Buy one out of classifieds or keep looking. There are quite a few out there and the price is right. There ain't much to look for. Be sure it hasn't had a bunch of wiring spliced or been modded too much--or if it has be sure it was done right.

I recommend the ABS (Strada) even if you are a dual sport rider. ABS is a life saver (has saved mine). You can always add spokes to the Strada--that's what I did :thumbsup:

These things aren't really having any issues despite any forum hubbub. I put a K&N air filter on 3k ago and ran my bike through the dustiest parts of the TETS and still had a nice clean air intake when I got home. Other than burning throughout the stock chain at 5k miles it's been perfect.
 
The one for the X-Challenge.
K&N BM-6507
I need to open up the air box and peek at the throttle body to be sure it's working well, but it certainly seals better than my stock filter did. The stock left dust/dirt just on the other side of the filter, this one left things cleaner in comparison after similar mileage.
 
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