• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 2014 CR125 finally back and put together, ready for first ride!

I'll let you know after a few rides. If i don't like it as much as my YZ125, i just go get another YZ, but i like what i see so far
 
Well the break in went good, even got a little track time. one thing i will say is Husqvarna has no idea how to jet a bike. They recommend the stock jetting and it's not even in the ball park, we are talking 5 sizes on the pilot alone. Any way the 144 rips from top to bottom after jetting was taken care of, and very easy i might add, going to put it through a 20 min moto tomorrow and see how she does. One thing i can tell so far is that it does handle (corner) better than my YZ's but it feels a lot taller, i'll see how that translates on the track tomorrow.
Bubby
 
yeah it was so rich it was studdering like crazy, wouldn't get into the mid range it was so bad. I went down to a 37.5 and moved the needle and leaned out the main and it ran like a monster. Has a lot of torque over the 125, and keeps pulling and pulling
 
Yeh the needle height seems to make a big difference to stuttering . You may find you can go smaller on the pilot
 
Yeah it was a little cold so i didn't want to go to low especially during the break in. My YZ's had the same carb so i am very familiar with it.
 
That's crazy. My 11 had a 35 and I dropped to a 30 because it was as you described. I went 30 p, 1 notch rich on the needle and 450 main. That fixed all the problems it had when I got it.
 
Good luck on your racing and riding endeavors! And that's one high speeeeed, loooow drag Husky!

bubby274 said:
Well the break in went good, even got a little track time. one thing i will say is Husqvarna has no idea how to jet a bike. They recommend the stock jetting and it's not even in the ball park, we are talking 5 sizes on the pilot alone. Any way the 144 rips from top to bottom after jetting was taken care of, and very easy i might add, going to put it through a 20 min moto tomorrow and see how she does. One thing i can tell so far is that it does handle (corner) better than my YZ's but it feels a lot taller, i'll see how that translates on the track tomorrow.
Bubby
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Yep, gotta wonder what goes on in the factories in the CARB and suspension dept sometimes ..
 
Ray i agree, i mean who install a 50 polite? I've been racing for over 30 years and have never had one that big come stock in a bike. One thing that pissed me off to no end was when i was draining the coolant, i went to loosen the coolant drain bolt and it would barely move. When i finally got it out and shined my light in the hole you could tell it was crossed threaded and chewed the the inner threads up pretty good. Not a big deal cause i just tapped it and put it back in, but it was done like that at the factory when it was assembled.
 
Well just put in 3, 20min moto's on the 144. It's a good motor, runs very strong mid to top, lacks a little on the bottom, but better than stock. It ran great on the MX track, but took some work to rip it up on the arenacross track. So overall i pretty happy, some things i like better over the Yamaha, and some things i think the Yamaha does better at but overall a good bike. I'll go down a tooth on the front to give it a little more pop on the bottom and that's about it, the Pro Circuit suspension is great, i have the works kit with the cartridges in the forks witch if you are a faster guy there's nothing like it, the shock is good also with the works kit, but needs a little tweeking to get it perfect. So not a bad day riding, looking forward to the 2day race this weekend.
 
Suspension details, please! Mods/price. Also what you weigh and what class you race, if you don't mind, so I have a frame of reference. I'm considering having them do my suspension, but already like the stock stuff better than any stock stuff I've moto'd.
 
I got their (basic) works kit (not the SFF)and not just your run of the mill revalve and spring job.They did springs, valving, works bladder cap kit, Works Shock pistons, and internal Works cartridges for the forks, maybe some things i'm forgetting. $1500 with shipping. I weigh 135, and ride the +30B class, and also race Arenacross, though i haven't raced Arenacross this year. I'm also pretty short so they did some extra mods because of the tall stature of the CR. I have had all the big name companies, Race Tech, Factory Connection, RG3, PR2, Pro Action, MB1, and these Pro Circuit forks are the best i have ever had. Now take into consideration i only have about 1 hr on them, but the faster you go the less you feel. The shock feels ok right now, MB1 and PR2 do great shocks, i think i will have a better feel of the shock once i get some time on it and make some adjustments. Hope that helps
 
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