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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Did my first tire change

Radar said:
I never use HD tubes I think they are a PITA and add unnecessary weight.
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I install my tires with the tube in it. Once you figure it out it is nice as you don't have to stuff it in there and rip up your hands and try to get the stem in the hole. Although I never did this before buying this tool and seeing this vid. Now I change tires because it is fun. :D You can literally install a tire and tube in like 2 minutes just like he shows. It is brilliant especially as I have a bike with 19" and stiff rear tires.


 
Motosportz said:
I install my tires with the tube in it. Once you figure it out it is nice as you don't have to stuff it in there and rip up your hands and try to get the stem in the hole. Although I never did this before buying this tool and seeing this vid. Now I change tires because it is fun. :D You can literally install a tire and tube in like 2 minutes just like he shows. It is brilliant especially as I have a bike with 19" and stiff rear tires.


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Where can I get that tool?
 
I try to not have a tube with more than two patches, just begging for at least one of them to fail (I like the 50/50 odds better) but have had a many as six on a bad day. As long as they're holding i won't mess with them until it's time to change the tire. Those patches that OHR is using are the best in my book, been using 'em for years. Patching the tube in the field with the wheel still on the bike saves a lot of time and energy.
 
60 PSI and a persuader sometimes....:)

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Clete said:
Do you need to still use the rim protectors, like the Motion Pro's, when using the Kauritmoto?

Any change of mind on doing another group buy? I think I know the answer, but have to ask :)
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No the tool has a very nice tip on it and just grabs the bead and pushes it over without touching the rim. Pretty slick.

No the first group by was painful shipping all the stuff and such, no thanks. Lots of work and time for zero profit. Can afford that right now. ADV had a group buy going but think that might have come and gone again. Start one yourself. :thumbsup:
 
re: patching. The most overlooked item is the glue drying out of any patch kit. Don't get stranded with no glue and buy a few tubes. They crease and dry up so besides just carrying the kit feeling confident, make sure you have a fresh tube or you've made sure it's not dried out.
 
Johnrg said:
re: patching. The most overlooked item is the glue drying out of any patch kit. Don't get stranded with no glue and buy a few tubes. They crease and dry up so besides just carrying the kit feeling confident, make sure you have a fresh tube or you've made sure it's not dried out.
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Really good point. I once had that happen to me on an MTB ride and not one of the guys I rode with had a patch kit (because I was always the guy with the tools, pump, extra tube, etc.).
I have a large tube of the cement in my box at home and after I use up the small tube in the patch kit I'll cut off the bottom of the tube, refill it with fresh glue and reseal it (small fold a couple of times from the bottom and crimp with pliers). Eventually the small tube will be too trashed to use anymore but by then I need more good patches so I just buy a new repair kit.
 
Motosportz said:
I install my tires with the tube in it. Once you figure it out it is nice as you don't have to stuff it in there and rip up your hands and try to get the stem in the hole. Although I never did this before buying this tool and seeing this vid. Now I change tires because it is fun. :D You can literally install a tire and tube in like 2 minutes just like he shows. It is brilliant especially as I have a bike with 19" and stiff rear tires.


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I throughly agree with all that he said ..covering some contentious issues..
 
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