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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

jxg

jxg

Husqvarna
AA Class
I hit something at speed the other day when cruising down a dirt access road (kicked the rear end out pretty good), and about 5 minutes later had a flat. when changing the tire, i notice a decent dent in the rim now. when remounting the tire, i now have an uneven bead, so i am assume i need a new rim. The rims on the bike are pretty beat up from the previous owner anyway.

any recommendations as to where to buy a new one. Also, i have never tried this, but can i just get the rim, and "respoke it" myself? I am fairly mechanical, and don't usually feel daunted by any task.

thanks
 
I've never bent the stock Excel rims in ~8 yrs of riding my Huskies... I've only had to tighten the spokes on my stock rims maybe 3-4 times also during this time... So I'm sure the Excels' would be my choice again....

You can probably re-lace a rim ... There should a process outlined on the web for doing this work ....
 
We (Motorsportz) have a pile of Excel rims here. You can lace them yourself, not real hard and tutorials on line as to the right method.
 
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