• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1973 125CR tire help

Jason Weaver

Husqvarna
C Class
Guys,
What's a good modern day tire choice for a 73 125CR? The bike has a very old Trellborg on it now - marked 3.50 x 18.

Just wanted to make sure I get something that will fit well......

Thanks in advance!
 
One item to check, how wide of a tire will fit?
Example a Kings 100x100 18 will work on my Vintage Zundapp 125 but not Michelin, Dunlop or Bridgestone 100 X 100 18 because of rubbing the chain.
The 100 designation equal approx. 4” wide, but not all tires are made the same and rim width comes into play.
My advise is to purchase a type of tire for your riding area, I was south of Raleigh many years ago and some of the terrain was sandy. I would then go with a Intermediate to soft terrain tire. Maybe a local dealer or riding friends can give some advice on brands of tires for you area that offer good traction and durability?

PS: I have read that Pirelli is making a Vintage style tire in smaller widths, I have not seen any, but this maybe a choice?

Terry
 
I run a 100/100 x 18 Bridgestone M404 on a 73 Cr125. Been very happy with it. Ran a M606 before that and it was OK too.
 
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