• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Another "I love my 150 this much" thread

Gotlabs

Gotlabs

Husqvarna
AA Class
I picked up a hon-duh CR5-honey a couple weeks ago and finally got to try it out today. Although it is a fun play bike, I do not for see me racing it anytime soon. 5th gear power wheelies while going 10mph was cool, but I will stick to my little baby bike. On a side note, I love it when someone asks "why would you want to race such a small bike?" granted both folks that asked me today have never finished ahead of me ina race. Hahahaha!!!

I LOVE MY HUSKY 144!

Bragging time rant off
 
I pick mine up on Monday and I can't wait to get it on the track. I love my RM 125, and I'm expecting the Husky to be that much better :applause:
 
Sweet and congrats! Hey now your daughter's 144 may be safe :D. I put about an hour and a half on my WB165 today at my house and boy they're FUN. Zomby I sold my 05 RM125 a few months back and it was a good little bike but you will soon see for yourself just how much better the little Husky is. BTW congrats to you too :cheers:. Enjoy guys.
 
Every time I ride my KTM 250 EXCF it reminds so very much why I bought my new WR 150.... Today was an example.. I rode My KTM on a small 2 mile single track behind my house for about an hour... I really felt like I was riding a brick... I came in and traded bikes for my Husky.... The minute I got on the seat I could fell the difference.. I felt like I was floating compared to that pounding I take on my KTM.... The difference in the sand is night and day for me... I will not think twice about laying my Husky down real low in a sandy berm and dropping the hammer... The KTM because of it's weight I will do just enough to survive that stuff... My KTM has some advantages like the ability to climb just about any dam hill.. But those advantages will not make me ride my KTM before I ride my Husky... The weight and throttle response and agility make my Husky the the bike I'll ride on any given day..
 
I rode a two day trail ride on the weekend .Saturday on the 250 exc and Sunday the 144. I enjoyed the power delivery of the 250 - it doesnt hit hard and is easily controllable. The rear is really good for my weight and the bike feels nearly as light as the wr.
Its a good bike for sure but to me its all about the handling at the front . It doesnt steer as well as the husky . I dont feel confident with ruts and it takes me all over the place. The wr may be slower in the open stuff but in any more technical parts I just found so much easier and felt in control at all times.
Oh and the ktm overheated twice and I had to use my water to fill up the radiators and it was stinking hot ! Rode the WR on sunday with no dramas as per usual.
Hit a massive rock and I have to say the 45mm Marzoccis are just unreal - I thought I was going for a spill but it just soaked it up.

Got the 36mm Keihin dialled in by the end of the ride and it was great.
A big improvement on the mikuni. The needle was a bit rich so unscrewed the cap and put it on the leanest setting and whamo what a difference. !! Still playing with jetting but think 175 main and 35 pilot
Loving the 144 as well - need to sell that ktm so the 165 can go on!
 
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