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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 2012 CR125 and 2014 CR125
- Thread starter Rob1965
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The biggest difference though is nearly perfect jetting with the stock carb! It runs so strong I actually opened the box with the 144 kit to make sure they didn't install the 144 from the factory! My 12 was impossible to get right even after RB modded it, I think there must have been something wrong with it like a passageway didn't get drilled out or something.
swapping a carb needle? Should be EZ to get it to run right. You can always buy the JD jetting kit, it runs very good.
That price is good on a 12. I tried every needle and jetting combo known to man and it never ran right, I ended up putting a 36mm keihin air striker 2 on my 12 and it immediately ripped. I fully expected to swap the carb on my 14 but it runs perfect. After reading so many varying jetting setups and problems with the mikuni I have come to the conclusion that they have a quality control problem.
Bottom line..... Expect to replace the carb. You might get lucky and get one that works and if you don't your out a couple bucks for a different carb. Buy the bike, fix the carb, you won't be dissapointed and can't beat the price.
The bike is exactly the same as far as handling and suspension goes. I am very impressed with the motor on the 2014 but that's because it runs perfectly where as I had quite a battle with the 2012. The 2012 carb was such a nightmare that I started questioning my mechanical/jetting ability. I am very stubborn and confident in my tuning ability, to the point that I probably spent way more time trying to make the stock carb run right than I should have. When I bolted on the Keihin and it ran perfect I wanted to punch myself in the face.
I need to pull the 2014 carb apart and see what jetting is in it compared to the 12, if I do I will post the results.
The only difference that would effect the handling of the bike is the bar mount. The 12 has quite a high mount, about 3/4 inch higher than the 14. I'm a tall guy but have learned over the years that lower bars are usually better
What kind of price have you been able to find on a 2014? If the difference is not that significant I would go with the 14. Where are you located?
450 main was stock, stock needle was a 6DEY15-74. Same jetting for both 125 and 144
Am preparing a 165 kit and have lots of Keihin jets so will likely set it up with a 36 PWK AS - PM me a price on your new one, I may buy if Rob1965 isnt a buyer.
Caferacerman
Husqvarna
AA Class
Installing a 450 main in my son's CR125 really woke it up.