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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Tire iron wrenchs

Not a bad idea, thanks. We could incorporate both front and rear bolt sizes and the spoon. Might have to do that.

thanks.
 
Well if I can dream for a moment... Light weight tools in general.

What is needed if there is a flat on a bike?

12 or 13 mm hex wrench for rimlocks - some I've seen ratchet, and some can be flipped over, 12 on one side 13 on the other.

Lighter weight Husky axle wrench

Lighter weight crescent wrench

Lighter tools in general

I keep meaning to make contact with some people in my past regarding these types of things - sailboats that race need things as light as possible. I should give Bill a call (up near you).
 
Baja guys are big on lightweight tools. I have a 27mm aluminum spanner with a spoon, but nobody makes a 15mm for the front. Maybe get in touch with 1Xinternational.com or precisions concepts or Motion Pro or whoever is making those spoons and have them make you a 15mm unit, then add in the existing 27mm for a set. They are aluminum and very light. but ive never had an issue with one, and ive done dozens of flats with them.

Honda Racing made a cool 'all in one' that had a notch carved out for the spoke nipple, and both 10 and 12mm extensions protruding off of the corners, as well as a 24mm and spoon-sort of like a gunsite.... Wish i still had one.

Just goin with the theme. :)
 
Motosportz;15311 said:
Not a bad idea, thanks. We could incorporate both front and rear bolt sizes and the spoon. Might have to do that.

thanks.
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Have you put anymore thought into this Kelly? I already have motion pro's 27mm for the rear and its a nice bit of gear. Would love to have a 15mm for the front.
 
Motion Pro makes a 27mm and 24mm snap-in 3/8" socket drive adaptor. Turns my spoon/axle wrench into a long handle socket wrench with a 15mm socket for my front axle nut. I also carry a 3/8" drive to 1/4" drive to fit my other sockets I carry, some of which are under the seat in the little half moon shaped zippered Motion Pro toolkit. Clever little toolset in there.
 
whats up with the 15mm size? :excuseme:
can they be made a size thats common?
I filed mine down to 14mm as I carry a wrench that size.
 
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