• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

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Almost purchased a '88 husqvarna 125

Bigbill

Bigbill

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I wanted it but yet didn't want it. I'm not sure how the husqvarna cagiva parts supply is. The last one we had we crossed over a Kawasaki 125 piston. Needed to add the three oil holes in the piston to lube the rib in the port.
So what do you guys n gals say about my near purchase of the 88 for $300?
 
i would vote "almost impossible to source parts"
the italian huskies are hard to find parts for until 92ish when things stabilized..at least for 250 and 360..125 may be a different story..
those "transition years" are brutal to locate things for. the sad part is i bet its an awesome bike and a big improvement over a swede 125. i had an 86 or 87 cagiva wmx 250...what a great handling/running bike
 
I had two '85, one '86 husqvarna swede 125's and I went though the three basket cases taking the best parts and swapping cylinders , pistons and cranks I built one good Frankin bike. She ran awesome.

We had a husky/cagiva 88, 125 wrk but I rebuild the engine. But my first Delordo experience with trying to jet it did go good. Then I was told the balance screw in front of the slide adjusts the gas. The air screw on the rear section of the slide adjusts the air balance.

My co worker said years ago he did good on a cagiva 125 racing NETRA.
 
I had an '88 Cagiva 125 WMX and it was without doubt the worst motorcycle I ever owned. I regret selling a bunch of them but to this day it is the only motorcycle I regret buying.
 
If you like the 87-88 models I suspect a lot of the chasis parts are in great shape sort of similar to an auto.
 
88 125 not at all alike the 87 88 bigger bikes....total cagiva rebadge. til 91-92 is hit and miss for post swede husky. kinda like finding power valve parts for last husy CR 250 and not having a kings raqnsom for the parts
 
I sold my '98 wr250 because of the availability of parts. Plus the problems I had with it even fast by ferachi wasn't happy with me. So I got some of my $$ back on my 99 te610e when that imploded. Ya I know I didn't learn maybe it's good the '88 125 cr deal fell through the. I'm back to my left kickers every time. The Swedish gods are trying to tell me something.
I have a compression release for every bike.
 
If we are discussing the Italian bikes in the sweedish section and 125's My 1998 I bought new from Valley Motorsports when they well suggested I get the stuff from Morrels which always had what I wanted. I have no idea how stuff will be in the future. My 98 wr has a somewhat wider gearbox and an airbox more like stuff in this section than soon after that. The 2004 cr 125 was dumped on the market for $3000 I passed up checking out one of those for $800 sort of recently.
 
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