• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 swap stands....

Norman Foley said:
Works best if you move your rim lock to same side of rim like a KTM. You'll need to drill another hole for it on a Husky rim. This makes it easy to capture rim lock, after slipping the valve stem through. I've done it this way for 13 years. Ride on the road at speed, between trail sections no problems with wheel vibration.
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My 125 is like that and is EZ. My 511 the rim lock is on the opposite side and not quite as ZE but still simple to do if you have the technique. I had tried mounting it with the tube int he tire before with limited luck. Figured it out and now it is super simple and tire changes have become silly EZ even stiff 19" ones.
 
Once you use it a few times it really is as EZ as the vid. I am shocked how quick I can mount a stiff 19" tire now.
 
I didn't see where the dude is holding down the side that keeps wanting to pop up as you are working the bead around. I always seem to have that problem. I need 4 arms and 3 legs to get a tire on and of course, its only me working the tire.. Seems to take a couple of hours of sweating and swearing, to get the old one off and the new one on.

I know I'm doing it wrong but I only have one brain and it doesn't fire the same synapses as everyone else. Most people say its just common sense, but that doesn't seem to compute on the same level as everyone else.
 
its tricky esp with dual-bead locks, but there's a science to it. google some vids, you'll see, then the light bulb 'll come on. i find when i start sweating im doing it wrong. i saw a vid of LR at an ISDE i think it was swap out two tires and rear pads in 7 mins, with foamies. he musta practiced in his sleep. he never missed a step it was intuitive. pretty impressive.
 
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