You guys are losing me here. Is all of this to change clearance or just for better suspension? Good luck to you all, I'm not good enough to care anyway lol
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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Stock suspension is quite usable as is. BUT if you really wanted to upgrade the bike thats where you would start as the motor is darn near perfect as is. I ahve some Ohlins forks laying around here for a while and now have the perfect candidate for them. The big gold forks would look real nice on there :>)
Might as well get the gold wheels, too....
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Stock final gearing is 16/47
Air filer is three very EZ to get to screws in the front right of the "tank" wing. Looks super EZ. Will pull and look at.
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The cheapest I could find gas yesterday was $4.59/gallon......Got 64.4 mpg on my first 103 miles...
As an ex XChallenge owner I am hoping the new 650 Husky is what we are after. My first post here so here goes.
That paper filter looks a lot like the paper filter that was used on the XChallenge. If they are the same then you will be able to fit the oiled foam filter and possible pre filter made by Unifilter for the BMW.
http://www.rallemoto.com/contents/en-us/d26.html
For the lean running at low revs, hopefully a Booster Plug like Is used on the BMWs will be available and plug straight in and smooth the motor out even more plus gives instant response off idle without hesitation or stalling.
http://www.boosterplug.com/shop/bmw-single-cylinder-20c1.html
Other parts made by Stephan at Scheffelmeier Metal hopefully will also fit the Husky 650.
http://www.bashplates.de/BMW-G-650-Xchallenge-Xcountry:::1.html?language=en
The bike is not released here in Australia yet.
I am also an ex-Xchallenge owner.I realize this engine does have some differences, but my XC ran better and stalled less on 87 than the suggested 91.
My Dakar does not seem to care what it drinks. Usually filling with 3 or so gallons and if you select 91, you are probably getting a gallon or so of whatever was pumped through the hose before you on the 3 into 1 pump/dispensors. Mines an '01 though, maybe the new ones are more picky?