• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Bringing back the WR

robj

robj

Husqvarna
AA Class
Thought I'd give you an update on the WR refurb.

I bought it a while back off a guy who butchered it through neglect and idiot mechanical skills. Frame tabs were snapped, bolts threaded, bearings seized solid, forks dented - the list is too long. He even managed to crack the swing arm at the pivot end. Only one word to describe this guy's approach to maintenance - dangerous.

I took it back to the frame - blasted and powder coated it, repaired all damage and replaced worn parts (including swing arm). I've also hooked up a set of 49mm twin chamber Showa conventionals (retaining the original WR wheel). New seals, rubber, guards, suspension service etc.

It's on the home run now after reassembling the big bits. Now just detail stuff - mounting headlight, hand guards, new Fatty, repacking muffler. Hope to have it finished in a week.

I'll keep you posted!
 

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that a wr 125? looks quite modern what 07?
like it looking tidy, so many people dont know how to check oil let alone greese bearings and bolt torque settings.
 
juicypips said:
that a wr 125? looks quite modern what 07?
like it looking tidy, so many people dont know how to check oil let alone greese bearings and bolt torque settings.
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It's a 2010. Hard to think it could get that scruffy.
 
hell i thought that was too bad a condition to be 3 years old! man stay away from thet bloke in the future thats nuts..
 
You might want to also beef up the coil mount tabs,mine broke off i used some flat steel 1/4x1/8 and welded them to existing tabs(reweld'd broke one) and then weld'd straight to the frame,,also the front engine mounts cracked at the welds,fixed that problem too.. Nice looking rebuild!!!
 
The coil tab had broken on mine too. I like the sound of the mod you did - maybe next time round if my weld doesn't hold out. All engine mounts looked ok.
 
robj said:
The coil tab had broken on mine too. I like the sound of the mod you did - maybe next time round if my weld doesn't hold out. All engine mounts looked ok.
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Thanks,,ya its pretty stout now,,i put 2 extra welds in front of the factory ones for the front engine mounts..
 
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