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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Lets Talk Wheel Balancing

RideLI631

RideLI631

Husqvarna
AA Class
Ok. So I haven't balanced a dirtbike wheel in a couple years. Last I did it must have been before my state (NY) banned lead sticky wheel weights. I am not having any luck with the new steel ones. They do not bend and contour to where you want to affix them like the lead ones did. Does anyone else out there still have access to lead sticky wheel weights? Also has anyone had any experience with the weights that attach to the wheel spokes themselves? If so how was the experience did they actually get the wheel perfectly balanced or just somewhat balanced.?

Just trying to weigh my options and see the best route. Orrr if anyone who has access to lead wheel weights wants to help a fellow husky owner out and work out a sale of some sort:)
 
Spoke weights are great, a local Cycle Gear gave me these since they no longer used them, this is the first and only dirt bike wheel I have ever balanced, did it almost 3 years ago and it's still good. I used vacuum tube underneath the weights.

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I buy the stick-on wheel weights (lead or steel, whatever) and balance just the rim and rim lock. I stick the weights INSIDE the wheel, in the center, and then tape over them.

I find that tires are usually reasonably close to balanced, and the major source of imbalance is the rim lock. This way, the weights can never come off, and I don't bother re-balancing when I change tires.
 
Kyle Tarry said:
I buy the stick-on wheel weights (lead or steel, whatever) and balance just the rim and rim lock. I stick the weights INSIDE the wheel, in the center, and then tape over them.

I find that tires are usually reasonably close to balanced, and the major source of imbalance is the rim lock. This way, the weights can never come off, and I don't bother re-balancing when I change tires.
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I just re-laced a set of rims and balanced them, and also did the same, putting the weights on the inside and the taping over them. I also like to balance and re-balance (rotating the tire on the rim, to find the spot that will require the least amount of weight to balance) Sometimes tires don't have any marks on them to tell the light/heavy spot. Shops would never do any of this. They'll just "glob on" as much weights as needed to get it balanced. I've seen shops put weights all over the rim.... Butchers! :eek:
 
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