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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Re-cutting Motocross Tyres, cool tool!

Freaky

Freaky

Husqvarna
AA Class
I was thinking of a way to get a bit more life out of MX tyres, I usually replace when the edges are rounded as it's the sharp, square edges which give the grip. After searching the net I came across a cool idea adapting a soldering iron, take a look at the link below. I made one the other day and it works a treat. Will get a few more races out of a tyre now and saving money is always a winner!!

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbhMCd2HBx8
 
Freaky said:
I was thinking of a way to get a bit more life out of MX tyres, I usually replace when the edges are rounded as it's the sharp, square edges which give the grip. After searching the net I came across a cool idea adapting a soldering iron, take a look at the link below. I made one the other day and it works a treat. Will get a few more races out of a tyre now and saving money is always a winner!!

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbhMCd2HBx8
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I read in magazine that you should cut the tops of to square the edges. Cutting the sides weakens the knob and will cause it to bend or flex instead of bite into the dirt.
 
Freaky said:
I was thinking of a way to get a bit more life out of MX tyres, I usually replace when the edges are rounded as it's the sharp, square edges which give the grip. After searching the net I came across a cool idea adapting a soldering iron, take a look at the link below. I made one the other day and it works a treat. Will get a few more races out of a tyre now and saving money is always a winner!!
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I'm with ya brother ...

I just cut the leading edge off the knobs (the upper part of the knob that is rounded) with care NOT to cut down very close to the bottom of the knob so that the integrity of the tire at its base is not hurt ... Some of my cuts might only be 1/4" off the top of the knob so that as much rubber as possible is left on the tire ...

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In the old days we used a hacksaw with the sides of the teeth ground down to make the blade narrow.
 
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