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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

There are two kinds of riders...

Did you use plenty of baby powder inside the tire and on the new tube to reduce the potential for the inside of the tire to move the tube prior to the valve stem being ripped?

How low of air pressure were you running and were you stopping with enough force to skid the front tire before the incident?
 
Fast1 said:
Did you use plenty of baby powder inside the tire and on the new tube to reduce the potential for the inside of the tire to move the tube prior to the valve stem being ripped?
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Yes. I always use enough powder that my driveway looks like a cocaine factory explosion.

Fast1 said:
How low of air pressure were you running...
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20 PSI. Owner's manual calls for 17.

Fast1 said:
...and were you stopping with enough force to skid the front tire before the incident?
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No. I go through that 4-way stop 4 times a day on the days I ride. I use a lot of engine braking and very little brake.

I braked hard a day or two before the wreck, enough that I saw that the valve stem was crooked in the wheel. I just kept riding it that way and hadn't had a chance to fix it. I don't know if the valve stem ripped when I hit the brakes at that stop, or before that. It may have failed before the stop where the crash happened, but the braking forces at the crash were just enough to open the hole up enough for the air to escape very rapidly.

I wonder if that hadn't have happened, I would have gone back to my bike in the garage after lunch to find a flat tire.

The exact event that damaged the tube doesn't matter, really. But, there is no doubt in my mind that it wouldn't have happened if I had rim locks.

Who knows. What I do know:
  • I will run rim locks from now on.
  • I will not ride without head-to-toe gear that will protect me in a slide.
  • I will never buy another nylon or polyester jacket again.
 
Bike is back together. Going to take it out for a test ride today.

The only thing I'm missing is the mounting bolt for my right HDB mirror.

The rear axle and nut was $80! I want some axle sliders. Any recommendations?

I also want to see about getting some engine side cover protection. The brake pedal scratched my right side cover (only the finish, the metal is unharmed), and I'm concerned about it punching a hole in the cover in a harder fall. Any recommendations for those?

Speaking of Highway Dirt Bikes. They were awesome. I contacted them regarding my crash, and they sent me just about everything at no charge. I had to pay shipping and for a pair of plastic handguard pieces. All of the hardware was sent to me for free. They basically replaced half of my handguards for nothing.
 
Rob578 said:
Very interesting that the tire would slip on the rim with 20psi in it
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Yeah, I know. There's a slight chance I let the pressure get low, but I usually never go more than a few weeks without checking my tire pressures.

I'm a lot more cautious about that now, believe me. :)

Tires were sitting inflated for a week and lost 3-4 PSI. I'm running rimlocks and 25 PSI now.
 
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