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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Trail Tool Kit Help

jtemple said:
.............One thing I just removed was the spark plug socket. Do I need to be able to pull the spark plug on the trail?
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If for some reason you ever drown the bike, Yes. (good job by the way on the revised tool pack)
Although it's been a very long time since I needed it, I do still carry a spark plug wrench and spare plug.

I thing I quit carrying in my tools after 20+yrs packing it, was a spare master link..............guess what happen early this year. My master link broke and threw the chain 10 miles from no where. The good thing is, one of my KTM riding buddies runs the same chain and had a spare.
The bad thing, is I took non-stop ribbing for a few weeks about the "Husky" breaking down and holding up the KTM's (I did have that coming)
I now have a spare master link again, and small press to get the stubborn thing back on.

Rocky Mountain MC carries a couple neat little "Y" combo wrenches from Tusk tools, that save a little weight. I have both the 8-10-12mm socket and 5-6-8 allen..........I use the heck out of them, as those two cover 80+% of what I've needed on my TE
http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/productDetail.do?navType=type&priceRange=allPrices&navTitle=Tools/Shop&webTypeId=140&webCatId=22&brandId=294&prodFamilyId=3162
http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/productDetail.do?navType=type&priceRange=allPrices&navTitle=Tools/Shop&webTypeId=140&webCatId=22&brandId=294&prodFamilyId=3161
 
boxofish said:
OOh ahh, what's the skinny on that ratchet set? Looks like a cycling one, Specialized perhaps?
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yes cycling. From Nashbar however I have exchanged the sockets for craftsman product. Works very well and with the Motion pro tire iron and 3/8" drive adapter I'm coverred.
 
TonyWilliams said:
I wonder if a latex or nitril "rubber" glove would do the same, and be usable as a glove.
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of course...not as cool..when you fill at a gas pump tho'...ha ha..the looks you get!!!

ps i got that sick of freezing wet hands when helping dig bikes out of the peat bogs, we rode years ago, that i carried some marigold dishwahing rubber gloves..a good idea..but could only find the xxl in dayglo PINK...took a lot of stick..but had lovely dry/warm hands
 
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