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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Y'all ever heard of that "dreaded red chain dust"?

nev.. said:
I disagree. Dirt isn't a lubricant. Using a device like a scottoiler which will constantly keep the chain wet will do a good job of cleaning it also, but if you're just oiling it after each ride, that's not going to happen.
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I guess it depends on what type of riding your doing. How long did your chain last?? Well stop cleaning it and just oil it. Unless your riding in mud. For road riding with the occasional fire trail or dirt road thrown into the mix you are actually doing your chain a dis-service by attacking it with solvents and or pressure cleaners, tempered steel is much tougher than road dust and your taking all the goodness out of it by cleaning. You say "Dirt isn't a Lub" well actually it is when mixed with oil and tempered steel in a confined space it becomes black poo. Black poo stops binding and over heating. By there very nature chains are suppose to be dirty, who ever heard of a clean chain on an off road bike (that's laughable) Look at it, if its dry oil it, depending on what your using you should get 300, 400 and maybe 500 kays between a re-oil. (more often in the wet) I can see the terra is endowed with a cheap endless chain but I fully expect to get at least 15,000klm out of it. I got 50,000klm with the standard chain on my KLR650, so if you want to spend some time on the terra, clean something else not the chain, ditto on the NYCMX post. Furthermore from my experience with yz450s I can recommend a Renthall R3 chain, tougher than your grannys under pants, made just down the road from your bike in Northern Italy. Having lived there for 4 years I toured many factories (1988 to 1992) Alpinestars, Ducati, Renthall etc, my uncle has an engineering workshop and he supplies only the outer roller for renthall chains.
Italiani lo fanno meglio
 
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