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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Axle Wrench?

Tinken said:
I carry a T-handle that has both 1/4 and 3/8 drive with sockets like 8 and 10. Theres no way to fix some things without one. My oil fill cap is 1/4 socket drive etc.

I'm not too keen on the Tubliss, I run ultra HD bridgestone in the rear and HD front with slime. I have never had a flat, but still carry a front tube. I wouldn't be concerned about weight vs protection unless I was riding motocross. II'm sure first time you get a flat in the middle of Egypt, you won't either.
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Those T handles are nice! I have an old ASV Y wrench that I always use. I have a 1/4 and 3/8 but really only use the 1/4. Of course, I don't really have a "trail pack" of tools. Supermoto racers don't venture too far from the truck.. :rolleyes: One of these days I'll do more offbeat trail riding. I don't go too far from home usually, some single track and occasional trips out to the West deserts of Utah. Slicks do surprisingly well on the trails! But still very limited compared to knobbies. I need to break down and get dirt wheels!
 
Kyle Tarry said:
It takes big balls to run tubliss and not carry a spare tube, in my opinion. If I was to run tubliss, I'd still carry a tube and the means to change it.

I do not see tubliss as a way to reduce spare parts load. I see it as a way to run lower tire pressures for improved performance without constantly getting pinch flats. However, if something does go wrong, without a spare tube, you're pretty hosed.

Even if you don't carry a tube, surely you want to carry tire irons...

For wrenches, I use the Motion Pro spoon/wrench for the rear, and I made my own front axle nut (patent pending! :lol:). Most of the aftermarket nuts require a 15mm wrench, which is a size that zero other fasteners on my bike(s) use, so that doesn't make any sense. I run a 12mm front axle nut so I can get it off with common tools. ZipTy's nut uses a 3/8 square drive, which isn't a bad idea, but I carry a 1/4 inch drive on my bike. A 1/4 to 3/8 adapter packs pretty small...

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Kyle, the reason for the 15mm axle nut is that husky used to include an axle wrench with each bike sold and they were 27/15 wrenches. Husky used to use 15mm nuts before they went to the 12mm allen. I know people wonder how that size came to use.
 
I went with the 15mm stainless nut from Uptite after the stock one cracked. The Husky 27/15 is a nice wrench.


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