• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 size V's tyre section

rallytourer

Husqvarna
A Class
There has been some discussion about the appropriate tyre section width that should be run on the stock rims size. The basic argument of this is that the wider the section of the tyre then the more distorsion of the tread profile to get the tyre to fit onto the stock rim.

For example a 140 section tyre would describe some radius instead of being flat. In effect the edge of the tread is bent round because of the way its fitted.
It's thought that this may be a problem when trying to corner aggressivly on muddy ground as the edge blocks never come into play and seemingly this type of tyre shape can lead to catching the edge of ruts and cause the bike to climb out with the associated instability / cross rutting etc and so on.

Has anybody else heard of this phemonina or know anything about it? Tyre technicians / manufacturers - your input would be most welcome. Thanks
 
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