{"id":709,"date":"2010-10-09T19:56:06","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T02:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/?p=709"},"modified":"2012-06-03T20:35:40","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T03:35:40","slug":"onto-the-next-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/2010\/10\/onto-the-next-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Onto the Next One"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the CBR more or less settled in, it was time to turn my attention to the Husqvarna. Maybe it’s just me, but I can’t remain content unless I put in some work… At first I was going to keep things low key and just do some cleaning and maintenance, but I’m usually not the best at self-control when it comes to this type of stuff :D The pictures below are a mix from the cell phone and the S95.<\/p>\n

I started by taking off the fenders and body panels, and then discarding unwanted weight – such as the rear bag holder rack, passenger pegs, and the mirrors that were as high as the moon.<\/p>\n

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I’ll be the first to admit that the SM610 isn’t exactly the best looking bike. I’m not a huge fan of what Husqvarna did with the design of the panels, everything is sharp and straight. The front headlight is bulky and looks like an eagle eye or something.<\/p>\n

Anyway, after researching and reading up the on the bike, I placed a couple orders… Those couple orders turned into this mountain of packages.<\/p>\n

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Still waiting on a few more items, but at least I could start. I put the kickstand back on to the CBR and borrowed its rear stand to get the Husky into the air.<\/p>\n

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I probably could’ve lived with the design of the body panels, but my biggest complaint with the bike’s aesthetics were the boring silver rims. Husqvarna also decided to go with a comparatively useless 4.25″ rear rim. Those items posed a big enough of a “problem” for me that I opted to rebuild the wheels entirely. I went with a pair of Excel Takasago 17″ supermoto rims in Black, with the rear being a 5″ rim. I wanted to reuse the stock Husky hubs, but there was a catch. The stock drilling for the rims and hubs follows a European index, while the Excels use Japanese index. The situation was resolved by having Buchanan’s Spoke & Rim<\/a> make a custom set of spokes that will mate up the Euro hubs to the Japanese Rims.<\/p>\n

Since I was redoing the wheels, I took the opportunity to ditch the junk stock Dunlop’s and go with something more proper. The tire combination I chose is relatively\u00a0unorthodox, with a race tire in the rear and a rain tire in the front. The rear is a 160\/60 Pirelli Diablo Supercorsa take-off I got off of eBay, and the front is a new 120\/70 Avon Pro Extreme Rain. The Avon may be a rain tire, but it is soft and sticky, and works great in the dry too.<\/p>\n

Today I took all my wheel stuff to Zoom Cycles in Santa Clara and had them lace everything up and mount the tires.<\/p>\n

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