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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Single Track Trail Discipline

Those riding conditions you describe sound a little spooky to me :(...

I got my hands on a Metzeler Enduro 3 Sahara rear tire ... Does not look like alot but it blows a knobby away and appears to gonna last on the hardtop also ... hooks up well in rocks and roots and steps over step-ups very good ... Just hooks up well in many areas .... I hate the way a knobby will dig a hole out from under you in 2 revolutions or less ..


lankydoug said:
Around here in the summer it is hard pack with rocks roots and logs and a MT43 is like velcro but right now it will freeze and than thaw only the top one inch of clay which is like greased ice, then when it thaws completely it's deep slippery mud because the frost loosens up the dirt. Riding on this through the trees is just plain scary since you really never know the degree of how thawed it is until you brake or turn and to add to the thrill much of it is covered with leaves.

My backyard riding area is not that rocky and a good knobby might help form some berms so I was actually considering a Bridgestone 404. If you have a favorite tire that you like I'd like to hear which one and why, BTW I run Tubliss front and back.
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ray_ray said:
Those riding conditions you describe sound a little spooky to me :(...

I got my hands on a Metzeler Enduro 3 Sahara rear tire ... Does not look like alot but it blows a knobby away and appears to gonna last on the hardtop also ... hooks up well in rocks and roots and steps over step-ups very good ... Just hooks up well in many areas .... I hate the way a knobby will dig a hole out from under you in 2 revolutions or less ..
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That's exactly what I don't like about the knobby too, when on a loose ricky hill the knobby just digs in the marbles and then your stuck in your self made trench with no momentum.

Another friend recommended a 739 AT Dunlop @ 6 psi with Tubliss and says it's the best he has tried so far. Allowing the stiffer desert tires to run at lower pressures seems to work pretty well.
 
FIM Pro Enduro tires.....all the top level extreme guys use them (look at Taddys bike for one), low knobs, balloon carcass rears. And of course all the WEC guys use (the standard FIM WEC legal rubber) 10psi rear 12 psi front they never trench in soft stuff they float on top and they grip and wrap around hard rocky stuff, the balloon like rear also improves HSCD....sharp edge hits absorb into the tire more than most MX knob tires. But we all have our preference those have been mine for a number of years now.
Mike Browns rear (FIM Michelin)
http://www.dirtrider.com/reviews/dirt_bike/141_0912_endurocross_factory_bikes_up_close/photo_19.html
Taddys cut (FIM Michelin)
http://www.dirtrider.com/reviews/dirt_bike/141_0912_endurocross_factory_bikes_up_close/photo_14.html
 
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