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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

How to change a tire

Good video on the work ... These guys do this wok for about a dollar a tire, so I leave it to them ....
 
Here's my tire changing stand, it's changed 20+ tires on the Husky so far....

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We actually designed the tire stands that most shops use now. Unfortunately, someone stole our design and took it to China. Now you can get it at Chaparral for $99. Nothing wrong with the wood stand, except my knees can't take it anymore. We have a big hydraulic one now, but we still like the manual stand.
 
I like to put tire paste or soap on both sides of the bead on the last side being mounted it makes the tire slide on a lot easier.
 
When changing tires,it's best to have a cold beer this helps a lot. But if too much beer is available ensure to count your tire irons afterwards.you wouldn't think it could happen but my buddy rode almost all summer with my tire iron in the back tire of his 450...he pinch flats in the rocks and I had a spare front tire tube so we thought we could use it ...we got it all apart trail side and were surprised to find my long missing moose tire iron in his tire ...between the tube and tire.....polished to a sheen, slightly warped .... We just giggled ...it was working its way out and eventually would have broke out through the tire...
 
Followed it and worked like a charm even reusing my tubes that have Ride On in them. Have not changed a motorcycle tire in 30+ yrs so figured a stand and some paste were in order (got a lifetime supply for $12). :cool:

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Johnrg said:
Followed it and worked like a charm even reusing my tubes that have Ride On in them. Have not changed a motorcycle tire in 30+ yrs so figured a stand and some paste were in order (got a lifetime supply for $12). :cool:
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I was in the same boat after no riding for about 20 yrs... then, after I started riding again, one day, out of the blue, I decided to change a tire for the first time in ~20 yrs ... Took 3 hrs maybe but I got it.
 
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