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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Cool new Kenda Trails / dirt tire coming.

Motosportz

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I really like this idea and think it is a long time coming.

http://www.innovationoffroad.com/20...type-kenda-trials-tire/#.U9lZbtChAzQ.facebook

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Seems they are bias ply only. I find the radials to work far better with trials tires. Early reports are good though. We will see.
 
Xcuvator said:
For the lighter bikes for sure.
Don't forget that the MT43 is biased ply, has a huge following and is DOT approved.
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I have run those. Good tire for DS but hooks up nothing like a Dunlop 803. Not even close. I have since moved to a Kenda 270 and prefer that over the MT43 by a good margin.
 
Motosportz said:
I have run those. Good tire for DS but hooks up nothing like a Dunlop 803. Not even close. I have since moved to a Kenda 270 and prefer that over the MT43 by a good margin.
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I like the 803 better too and have a 803 and MT43 mounted on spare wheels. Like you say the 43 is better for dualsport (DOT). I ran one at the Black Dog DS on the 450 when it was a little muddy on Saturday a couple years ago and was impressed. One of my buddies (A fast) had them front and rear on his 500EXC. He had some downhill challenges but came away liking them.
Yeah the 270 is a treat. I have about 1000 miles on the one on the 610 but haven't been in the mud with it. I suspect it will work better that the 43 though.
To me the thing about trials tires (especially radials) is that they seem to grip the same even in the last stages of life on the things they are really good at like slippery roots, rocks etc.
 
I'd like to see one manufactured for use without the Bib. Just sayin'....

I realize it's for the sake of not getting pinch flats...but.....just sayin'.....
 
Xcuvator said:
I took that as meaning that if you use moose then you need the bigger one. ??
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Most serious off road racers are running a Bib Mousse, not tubes. So yes; the article was implying that you'd be using the largest Bib. We mere mortals, will use UHD tubes....
 
anybody get there clammy cabbage collectors on some of those Maxxis off a freeride yet i guess if we get the freeride for 15 we will get that tire:applause:
 
I have 2 of these sitting in the garage. Mounting one with a tubliss setup tomorrow. Won't be able to test it for a few days since I have kid stuff this weekend. I have high hopes. They feel super soft with a thin sidewall and gooey knobs. Should be good for the Arkansas single track trip I have in a couple weeks.
 
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