• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Fix a flat

richard kersten

richard kersten

Husqvarna
AA Class
Just curious can you use fix a flat or green slim for a flat to get you back to the truck , I know changing it out is best , especially when your gonna be out awhile but would this work for a quick fix ? Thanks
 
Green slime is preventative, fix-a-flat is after the fact. I don't use either, I have used both and it just ends up costing me money. Both products ruin the tube for being able to patch the tube. When my buddies have a flat on the trail, and their tube is free of stuff and they don't want it any more, I take it home and throw it on the pile. The other day, I spent about an hour and $2 worth of patches and had three 21" tubes ready to go. At any given time, both tubes on my bike have 1 or more patches on them.

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I am using http://www.ride-on.com/ now. I also carry a spare tube and irons in a fender bag. I would rather change the tube later if I can. I will patch good used tubes but my season old tubes are beginning to rust at the washer at the base of the valve stem so next change those tubes get tossed or cut up to use as rubber bands.
 
I carry a new 21" tube with me and I run 4 oz of Slime in each tire. Last weekend I punctured my front tire while riding around the H&H race. Nasty cactus spine, but it was instantly sealed by the slime and I rode around all day on it, only to find it once I rode back to the trailer.
 
I agree with Tinken. I've lost air in my tire from a puncture and just removing the offending thorn and re-airing the tire got the Slime to seal it and kept me going for the rest of the day.
 
Years ago a buddy of mine gave me a little bottle of motorcycle fix a flat. It was about the size of a co2 refill bottle but it had some sort of sealant in it. I used it on a front tire while out on a ride and left that tire on until the rubber wore out. I actually forgot I had a tube with fix a flat in it. Long story it worked great but I have never been able to find it again.
 
I also use a mini pump as the tire pressures are so low that it is super easy to inflate. The reason for a co2 in bicycles is the high inflation pressures needed (40-110psi). A co2 is key for that but hand pump more reliable and efficient and no longer than a tool wrap to stow.

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I dont have any particular hate of Slime and I ran it all the time when I ran Tubliss - the stuff DOES work.

I can change a tube in < 20 mins even on the trail, so there is really no reason to not just fix it right. I carry a 21" tube, baby powder, a patch kit, and co2. I carry a huge medical kit too. Now I am the trip doctor and tire fixer - not sure how that happened!
 
Not gonna lie the reason I ask is because I have never removed a tire from the rim , suppose I should google it , thanks you guys for all your info and tips.
 
richard kersten said:
Not gonna lie the reason I ask is because I have never removed a tire from the rim , suppose I should google it , thanks you guys for all your info and tips.
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Watch some youtube videos and then change your tire in the garage. The first time is kind of hard and you may pinch a tube. After that its pretty easy.
 
We make tire irons for the shop and we invented the round tube tire stand. We actually have a new one in the works that allows you to change a mousse in under 60 seconds for the 6 days event.

 
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