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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Rimlock question??

It's on a stripped-down TE250/310, I weigh 175lb with all my gear, have 2 rimlocks on and a Bridgestone Ultra HD tube in it. I do almost all single track, tight, technical riding. My thought process on it is you should go as low as possible without getting flats - the lower the better for the rocks/logs/roots, as you get a bigger tire patch on the ground and don't bounce as much over obstacles. Is this thinking wrong? Guys like Coffee and Kelly who have run rear trials please chime in and let me know your thoughts.:confused:
 
I run 6 psi regularly in the rear trials tire on my WR250f... have been doing this for 3 years with no pinch flats. I run down to 4 psi with the tubliss kits on my husky.

Run as low as you can get without getting flats or having the tire roll all over the place.

Later,
 
That's what I was hoping to hear jmetteer. Any one else chime in on their experiences/problems with very low pressure. Also, any guidance on how to change your approach on powerslides into turns?
 
Oopsie, just noticed this thread.

Miscellaneous thoughts:
  • I run dual rim locks front and back - to balance the wheels and.... I want a little assurance the tires stay on if there is a blow out. I had a front suddenly go flat at 75mph on the freeway... and really thought my time was up.
  • I use front & rear trials tire cause they are like riding on velcro, and velvet - very very smooth ride. A few people rode my bike last weekend and was truly impressed. The front allows for soaking up the little stuff & going in/out of ruts with much less bliping of the throttle.
  • I've experimented with tire pressures 3-15psi in both front and back. 10 front and 7.5 back is about right for my average riding. I think everyone should find what pressure works for themselves.
  • Rear tire pressure can be lowered to adjust the sag (sorta), especially when doing the occasional sand sections to make the front more stable.
  • My 2nd rimlock is near the tube stem, perhaps I should know better, but I can change the tire at least 'ok'.
  • Trials tires are definitely not for everyone but I like them a lot. :thumbsup:
  • When the rear lets go, it really lets go all at once, so power slides are usually not predictable.
  • Knobs usually start cracking a bit when they wear, but have ridden many hundreds of miles after that.

Hope that information is useful.

:cheers:
 
10/7.5 are very close to the pressures that I have been experimenting with using Tubliss. So far I like what I feel running these pressures and I don't adjust the pressures that much even when the terrain changes. I also ran two rim locks when I used tubes for the same reasons.
 
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