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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Mud release tip

Motosportz

Motosportz

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The other day I was cleaning my bike. It is muddy season here. I had used a bunch of "wax as you dry" spray wax on my vintage cars this summer and thought I'd try it. I applied it to my bike, under the fenders and on the plastic. Seems to let the mud come off and makes cleanup much EZer. Just thought i would share.

I like this one...

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Worth a try, mud season here in UK too, my bike held that much weight in mud on a race last weekend I couldn't pick it up when I had a minor off, had to get a hand off a spectator. So much mud round the front sprocket it was slowing the bike down considerably due to the friction caused. Now removed chain and sprocket guards to see if that helps, I guess that the bike weighed an extra 20kgs in mud at least!!
 
What about Pledge? Specifically, lemon.

Lots of street riders swear by it as a cheaper alternative to Plexus, which does make the plastics feel greasy. Might make it tougher for mud to stick.

I use Plexus on my street bike, but I never worried too much about my dirtbike looking dirty.
 
I remember Scott Summers used hose (panty hose) material streched over his fenders for mud races. That was a trip!!
 
I use WD40 and once tried a cheaper Wd40 type product... and it stained my white plastics yellowish! damn.
Back to WD40.
Might try a waxy product... thanks for the tip.
I've heard others using cheapo tyre shine in a can, however, I think it would be too harsh on the plastic.
 
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