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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Trials Bike thread.

An amazing amount of failures on that.
Got to say it nerves me how the I've cold water hits the nice hot engines and doesn't cause a seizure.... good watching.
 
silverstreakNZ said:
no that is just dumb . a negligble amount of the energy that goes into the "pop" comes from the rotating mass of the engine . its because a petrol engine produces 0 torque at idle . they rev it up and get the engine to the rpm that it can produce the torque required and regulate the torque to the back wheel with the clutch .

if you applied full power to an electric engine fast enough in a bike it would literally throw you on your ass before the wheel had even done half a revolution .

hence no electric drag cars or bikes have a clutch .
Click to expand...

I observed at one of the NZ national rounds last week-got chatting with one of the riders on a electric motion trials bike and the one thing he said he missed compared to a petrol bike was the clutch, apparently it was very difficult for him to get use to especially when trying to store the torque of the bike before attempting big banks & rock faces.
Has anyone out there tried a Rekluse on a trials bike yet?
 
ROTAX DISC VALVER on the SWM, I think the SWM Importer has that same model in his collection.

OK ride report, me and upstate NY now SoCal ISDE Andy did a few hours of trials yesterday, the most I have done ever. He is at a higher level than I and his bike is a little newer as well. Montesa Honda 2016 4 stroke, mine 1992 Beta Zero 260. I am burned today...... that was the most I've done yet. It really is super fun and will take lots of play time to get dialed in. I find myself going way too fast, the set up for obstacles is tough for me when transitioning from a tight turn into a rock step, I like having at least a few bike lengths to get ready to bounce and jump up. I also learned fast that I need to get GP type super soft gummy tires. I bought standard compound D803F and a standard compound Pirelli. Andy has F D803FGP and R D803GP the things are like bubble gum. compared mine feel like tricycle tires (or standard knobbie compound). I did some sliding where I could have gripped. Which reminds me stick with second gear. 1st got away from me a few times, bike rode right out from under me. Fun stuff and psychologically challenging. Also slow slow slow down!!! Hit it and stop....instead I hit it and blast off enduro style. Steep learning curve for sure. Truth is I feel good as this was really the second time I've done this, first was me solo so I was very careful, this time was the real deal there were consequences for screwing up.
 
Glad you got out to ride some trials with Andy, as you need someone to push you a bit. Yes you have to slow down to go clean and set up for the next obstacle is sometimes on the previous obstacle, not in between them! You owe it to yourself to jump ahead at least 20 years on your next trials bike! Get some good tires in the meantime, as they last way longer than your enduro bike's knobbies!:oldman:
 
Yup slow it way down, I like to just balance on the bike without engine running feet up.
I found that with a bit of practice 5+ mins of feet up balancing then you tend not to wobble as much.
Also my back aches from the riding angle and pulling up on the bars to get the front to lift.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top