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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Cush Drive Rubbers

Received the cush rubbers after 8+ weeks. There nice and tight. And a lot cheaper! Thanks Andy and Glitch for the lead.
Took the opportunity to fit new discs, pads, tyres, tubes, chain and tongue.
Merry Christmas, One and All:)
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Yup, they sure took a good while to get here but arrived yesterday. :-)
Thanks to Andy in ZA.
Have a great 2019 everyone.
 
PaulC said:
Received the cush rubbers after 8+ weeks. There nice and tight. And a lot cheaper! Thanks Andy and Glitch for the lead.
Took the opportunity to fit new discs, pads, tyres, tubes, chain and tongue.
Merry Christmas, One and All:)
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Does that front disc improve the front brake any..? I consider the OE front brakes very weak. With new SBS pads (can't remember which one) it helps, but I would like better still.
 
kiwiape said:
Does that front disc improve the front brake any..? I consider the OE front brakes very weak. With new SBS pads (can't remember which one) it helps, but I would like better still.
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Yes it does feel a lot stronger but thats to be expected with a new disc & pads. With 70,000 klicks it was due.
 
I think PaulC got the right ones.

I ordered a set but I think I was shipped the wrong ones and so far have not been able to get the right ones. I've kinda given up.

Here's a couple shots showing the comparison.

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Stock

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And the replacements. Needless to say the fit was sloppier than stock so I left them on the bench.

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Naw....they seem to have the wrong shape, are physically a little smaller, are missing the dimples on the back-side (yours are smooth)....they certainly are not
what I've got in front of me (same as PaulC's above).
Haven't fitted mine, but trial-fitted in a spare rear wheel (Strada/ cast wheel) and a spare sprocket carrier and it takes both hands and all my weight and force to jam the sprocket carrier into its place.
 
Just received mine last week, same as PaulC has in his pictures. They fit SNUG. It took a bit of convincing to get the rear wheel assembled again but worth the effort. They feel great, especially compared to the clunky old rubbers of mine that had a lot of play.
 
Are they harder in comparison to stock rubbers? Too hard and they'll provide less dampening which is their primary function.
 
For a start, they're not "rubbers" (as in nitrile-rubber, like the stockers) but HD Poly-Urethane items.
They don't squash (compact + harden off) and deform as readily as the OEM items.
All up, they're a far "gentler" solution than the OEM (after their early compression and resulting slack + slap, once compressed).
The OEM's are sort of like a bike-seat....if "cushy and soft" for the first 20 minutes, it's usually useless and painfull for any trip beyond the first hour.
 
"cushy and soft" for the first 20 minutes, it's usually useless and painfull for any trip beyond the first hour.

sounds like my last girlfriend
 
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