aya16
Husqvarna
A Class
I personally want to thank Hall's, Bill's MC, Upstate Cycles, Wally Bean for putting up with me!
Plus all the great guys/gals on Cafe Husky!


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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
I personally want to thank Hall's, Bill's MC, Upstate Cycles, Wally Bean for putting up with me!
Plus all the great guys/gals on Cafe Husky!
Wow! I couldn't ride the bike - it is truly a work of art!!
I enjoyed this alot but want some closure....Please post pics of it after its first good ride but before a bath.....then another after its bath.
Thanx! Ride report: Last night I put the new preload spring on the powervalve linkage. Watching it move, I realized it's not only the spring but I need to buy the bushing/new top part of linkage. My 09 was the opposite way and I sanded the bushing a little with some 600 grit paper. I usually put a little marine grease on it so it moves nice. Guys with new bikes want to check this. When it moves it makes the linkage twist a little and am not getting a good tight lift. I set it anyways at 3/4 way up about where my 09 is. I originally had the 62 needle in the 4th clip position and seemed little rich. I can almost tell now by the way you crack the throttle and listening to the crisp sound in the exhaust, while the bike is on the stand. I came back and moved it to the middle #3 position. I took the bike back out and she flat out rips. I have a light stumble (Just putting slow in a trials mode and cracking the gas full throttle), off the bottom and think I need to move up from a 45 pilot to a 47 based on our temps. Plug color is nice and brown. Not sure, but it might even be in this loose linkage? I am very happy how this thing runs and even floated the front end in 3rd to 5th gear. Other than the light stumble, it pulls strong from bottom to top. I just can't seem to get use to the hydraulic clutch feel? The front end seems lighter than my 09 for some reason and can tell it doesn't seem to turn as quick like my WR250.
Really?
Both of my 04 125's turn rings around my WR250 which is a rather slow turning bike.
I run the forks on my 125's way up in the clamps...like 3rd line.