• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     FE = 4st Enduro & FC = 4st Cross

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

FE/FC Trials tire on a FE501?

By the time it's readily available, the "next best front tire" will be out anyhow, so I'd just rather go with something available that's known to be good enough and easy to get the first and second time around...

endurocrotts,
will look at that M-59 Bridgestone.. thanks for the tip.


Sort of looking for something like this with tighter nobs that I can ride on offroad single track hardpan and rocky sections at speed, and ride 30 mile stretches of road to the trails and not completely destroy the tires in the process. This is the Bridgestone ED77 and ED78, something like this.

Recommendations for tires like this appreciated, especially if they are D.O.T approved or maybe specific offroad tires that will last longer on road.

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endurocrotts said:
The MT-43 is a tire in respect that it's round and black. It does get pretty good traction as long as it's driving forward and no mud is involved, but put the brakes on and it turns into a slick on wet pavement. I personally find this tire dangerous. If you're going to run a trials tire (MT-43 really isn't) I'd recommend the Dunlop 803 with a 140/80 Bib mousse
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Not for a DS tire, the 803 will shed knobs in about 20 miles of pavement and be garbage. Can't handle the heat. The MT43 and Kenday 270 can go down the road at 70 all day long and be fine. Its a trade off in performance for sure. I agree the 803 is a good off road tire, far better than the 43 but cant be a DS tire.
 
troy deck said:
its all good tink your the only place in the US that ever has any...... i called a few or there so called [dealers] and got the same response YES WE ARE A GT DEALER NO WE DONT HAVE ANY TYRES PLEASE CALL BACK IN A 2 WEEKS OR LATER SO SORRY at least ZTR really dose have tyres i know i want a pair and ill get them from you it would just be nice to walk n2 Mo's house of mosicles and leave with a set
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The tires are on back order. Tires that did come in, were shipped out to those who had pre-ordered, by date of purchase. The US distributor for GT is no longer and no one currently has access to the tires in the warehouses. We will have them back in stock as soon as they can ship another container to us.
 
Sorry, didn't realize you were D/S ing. Pavement will definitely eat the 803 in short order and be rough on the M59. The Maxxis IT's do pretty well though.
 
I like a Motoz IT front and Kenda 270 rear for intermediate to dry DS and off road. that said there are lots of good choices out there.
 
Motoz IT rear doesn't last too long is most likely why. Were talking dual sporting and the pavement will cook a tire quick.
 
reveille said:
Motoz IT rear doesn't last too long is most likely why. Were talking dual sporting and the pavement will cook a tire quick.
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Spoke to a rider today who's tried all three of the I/T, I-H/T, HT tires for dirt and dual sport use too. His explanation was simple. My primary question was around why people tend to "intermix" vs using the same tire on front and rear. For the kind of 75% dirt riding I do and 25% paved road getting to the to the trails, he said this FWIW to anyone, quote:


"H/T front and rear will last longer, will do better on the hard dirt/road. Not as well on softer dirt for front but still works okay.

I/T front and rear will be better on softer dirt for sure, will wear faster on road and not as good on road as H/T.

I/T front does better on dirt and H/T on rear helps with wear; in combination mixed.

don't try the I-H/T XC tires, stick to either H/T, I/T front and rear, or H/T rear with I/T front.

Noted all three of these tires are more aggressive than a Dunlop D606, and loud on road."
 
IF the I/T front and rear tire will hold up within reason taking some 25 mile road abuse to get to the dirt trails every other weekend, I might try a front and rear I/T.

Question: Has anyone here abuse an I/T on pavement a bit, how does it hold up? Did you end up swapping out the rear for an H/T later on?
 
I've used 2 it motoz rears and both were destroyed in a week of multi day dual sport use. I tried the enduro it and the x circuit. Both had very short lives. Hi way trail connections at 55mph just fried them out Sadly.
 
For me the Motoz IT front lasts a very long time in mixed use, covers lots of terrains well. I like to run the rear Kenda 270 for the same reasons. For me it is a great combo for DS. I would not run a 270 front and hear they suck.
 
BTW I have been running a Kenda 270 rear with about 7 psi that I siped with a 4" cut off wheel on my 02 CR250 for over a year on all terrains. This tire has seen it all. Always surprised what it will drag me up even in the wet sticky stuff. Is very good on dry and very usable in wet to a limit. Zero chunking, zero flats, VERY robust and long lasting. Its not an all out race tire but a great general purpose long lasting durable off road tire if your run low pressures. Buddy with the YZ in the pic has new 30X bridgestones which are very good and I out climbed him a few times on slick uphills. That said he is still working on learning how to climb on a 2 stroke as he is a KTM350 guy and this is his first 2 stroke.

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I like the look of that 270. I am always looking for a trials type tire (that is not a trials tire) for sticking to rocks. Cam.
 
reveille said:
I've used 2 it motoz rears and both were destroyed in a week of multi day dual sport use. I tried the enduro it and the x circuit. Both had very short lives. Hi way trail connections at 55mph just fried them out Sadly.
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Thanks you just saved me a lot of wasted time. Kind of what I suspected. I'll be going a different route then.
 
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