• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Rim Locks

Gord

Gord

Husqvarna
AA Class
I just took the tires off my 73 WR250. The rear tire didn't have a rim lock. It has sharp steel points on the inside of the rim. They can't be seen from the outside. They actually made holes in the tire bead. They are Hi-Point aluminum rims. Below is a picture of them.
Was wondering if others had seen these. And also if I should still use a rim lock as well as the points when I mount my new tire.
 

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If you have to limp out of the forest with a flat rim lock or plural help a lot. Not that I have had that happen much but a rear tire flat watched from the rear really does strange things.

Fran
 
I have the same pins on the rims of my 390 and am happy to use them without a rim lock. Quite a few guys here in the UK actually drill small holes in the side of rims that are not equipped with these pins and then use self tapping screws of a suitable length to secure the tyre.
 
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