• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st Cross

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

125-200cc 165 first ride

shawbagga

shawbagga

Husqvarna
Pro Class
finally go to take her out for her maiden voyage as a 165. WOW, FREAKIN AWESOME!!!:thumbsup: cant believe 40cc makes such a difference. lugs like a 3/4 scale 300! on hills where normally id have to be hitting it pinned in first, I could cruise up in second & even third sometimes. so much more bottom end. mid was strong & top still good(top maybe a little less hit than 125 but not much in it really). noticed the engine has a KTM sounding whhrrr now(washing machine kinda sound), maybe the FMF pipe though. sounds kind cool if im honest. a few of my observations from my first outing:

PROS -chunky bottom end & mid
-wheelies much easier/can pop front over trail trash easier in 1-5 gears
-sounds a little meatier
-much less clutch abuse
-easier to ride fast in technical stuff/doesnt fall off pipe as easy(easier to get it on the pipe too) & when it does easier to recover from without stomping down gears & melting the clutch as much!
-lugs WAAAYYY better on hills

CONS -noticeably more engine braking(still bugger all but noticeable)
-noticeably more vibes(again bugger all but noticeable)
-pipe hangs down a bit too far(she already has 2 spots of 'character'-one under bottom section from a log & one from pipe hitting rad when I binned it!). just need to be a bit more pipe conscious.

all minor gripes for such an amazing engine. it truly makes it a lazy mans 125! I just wanna ride it again! well done Sir Walter, well done.:applause:
 
BTW did 100km today & went onto reserve just as we got back to the car. 1/3 fireroad(WFO), 1/3 transport(cruising) & 1/3 singletrack(1-3 gears). so lectron good for around 130-150km till dry I reckon as reserve holds quite a bit. ms3 metering rod set 1mm richer than stock(48.5mm from 49.5mm) & PJ half a turn from fully closed/lean. engine felt good, crisp & no bog(which may be a result of the 165 kit or maybe going richer on rod). may try a little leaner on the rod(around 49mm) but no complaints. Kudos to Kelly for that side of things. 165 & lectron=SWEET:thumbsup:
 
shawbagga said:
-noticeably more vibes(again bugger all but noticeable)
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Check your swingarm and engine bolts and make sure all are snug. I have never noticed much more vibration but I have had engine mounts come loose many times on the 125 class bikes.
 
havent ridden for 4 weeks so maybe the reason it felt more vibey. a combination of that & paying more attention to engine sounds/feel after putting 165 kit on-always a bit paranoid when put new piston in for first hour or 2. didn't notice when riding only when sitting on it & idling. now broken in I can just relax & ride it-HARD! normally check engine mounts & swingarm bolt every second ride or so but ive been slack, will go over them again. have a second nylock locknut on both lower mounts to prevent losing them as I lost a mount nut on 300 couple of years ago
 
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