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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

just a sunday afternoon (part one)

R-J van Hulst

R-J van Hulst

Husqvarna
Pro Class
5 Km out of town having a flat rear tire DSC00042.JPG

simple nail did it but having already fun on the bike the complete valve was ripped out of the tube yes we do have tubes as a standard spare part with us
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oeps :excuseme: that water is camouflaged very well
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see next thread

Robert-Jan
 
Gotta watch those sink holes ... Over here we have caraboa and they must have water to cool off ... So there are caraboa swimming holes all over the place to watch for on each ride ...

Do you have rim locks on your bike? I've never ripped a valve stem with one on my bike ...

We have vulcanizers (24 hrs service for many) all over the place here and fixing a ripped out stem is easy for these guys to fix ...
 
ray_ray said:
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Do you have rim locks on your bike? I've never ripped a valve stem with one on my bike ...

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I only have a rim lock on my front wheel.

you do need them here as the tires are cheap and the valve are easily ripped out

on the rear i don't have one but it appears not an issue

this particular case is that the nail made it flat and i did find out when it was flat (the in between time I was still giving it) and that would done the damage to the tube

yet again a inner tube is $6 so not a bank breaker just inconvenient if you don't have a spare one on you

Robert-Jan
 
I carry tubes on the tours here but normally with the rim locks and the IRC VE-33 \ 35 tires, I have always made it out to a vulcanizer ...Its a soft compound tire but holds up OK on flats to some degree ...

Some of my bikes have the HD tubes and most have the slime stuff in there for sealing some holes ... Some of those HD inner tubes are just too heavy for me so I use the intermediate sized ones ... Not sure how much they really help me here as I deal in nails usually and they will go through any tube ... I'd choose the slime over the HD tubes if I had to make a choice ...
 
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