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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Trails tire...WHY?

I was not in the crash episode on there, I have had a few that could have been though. The Grave Ridge is just a section in the ECEA Michaux Enduro or what adreniline calls Round 15. In that Grave Ridge Section I had to wait on a guy on a KTM who was having some trouble. I saw some people up there but did not know there was a camera. I was just showboating as the trials tire was like cheating. I'm in another one on "section one" row 28 but that one I was not going to share. Kind of hard to stall a WR but I managed to do it. That and I was looking for a check and I saw the camera girl. Been about 10 years since I have done a Enduro. I am pretty happy with the Dunlop 803 and have used the Michelin X-11 but have never had a IRC. I may give it a try at some time. Is the IRC a Radial as well? I had a race end on my last try with a trials tire but it was caused by a metal spike and not a rock as I first thought. The spike stayed in the rear mud flap. I ran my air pressure kind of high at this enduro at 9.5 psi. Trail riding I normally run 8 or less. I did notice I had some cracking of the knobs with the higher pressure. On a trials bike I run like 4 p.s.i and have never seen a cracking knob. I will go back to a MX tire soon for a couple of races that have some more grass sections. One bad thing is if you have a true grass track when the Trials tire lets go it is hard to get back in line without losing control. That and if you go too far over a berm it tends to really slide out.
 
I am still running and loving the mich trials tire on the front. Works great. I agree though, it doe not like being laid over a lot in corners. No issue for me as I keep my bike more at the balance point as thats how it seems to like to turn best anyways. Several people tried my bike this weekend and loved or did not notice (a good thing) the front tire. not sure I'll be keeping it on when the rains come though.

K
 
WoodsChick;4715 said:
Mmm...I'd say you'd have to lose a few more knobs in order to be less thorn-resistant, but once you start losing them they disappear fast. This tire started the day's long ride with a few missing knobs. It made it back to camp many miles later with no drama and didn't lose even 1psi...


PA310062.jpg



WoodsChick
Click to expand...

Looks like you now have a drag slick WoodsChick.....
A trials tire doesn't quite work the best around the area I live and ride. I'll take some pics sometime in the near future and then you'll see why I say that.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top