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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Talking To

ozzie

ozzie

Husqvarna
AA Class
I was talking the owner of our local bike shop the other day, and we were talking balancing wheels on my Husky. In the old days they always took the rim lock out, and drill and screw in 4 self tappers on each side of the rim, and that would hold the tyre from slipping and to help balance the wheel. Now what he does, is he drills holes on the inside not all the way through and puts small roller bearings pin in to hold the tyre.
Its just I've never heard of this before, I don't know if he's having a lend of me
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Pinned rims have been around a long time and I have seen them from time to time. Not too many people use them anymore, but they were popular for a while back in the 70s. I'm not sure if the pins could be lost or not if the tire sustained a puncture and the bead came loose from the rim. That would be my concern.
 
sounds like one of those...I have been doing it for years and probably never will stop...Dont see the need to balance your wheels unless its a SM or Baja/BITD bike...you are nto gonna feel a little off until high speed
 
Here at Mount Isa we might have to travel between 20-60 klm on main-dirt roads to a trail at speeds of 100-120 klm. That when I notice my mate KTM (spit) back wheel was bouncing up and down like a pogo stick, and I thought about the work that rear shock has done already before we even hit the trail.


Kel
 
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