• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 CR/WR 125 Getting Acquainted

ripnriding said:
I'm 5'6" with a 28" inseam. Have a 2010 CR 144 and a 2017 TX300(just got it). The seat height on the TX seems lower....anyways...yeah, I had a rekluse on my prior TE 450 which helped me out a lot in some technical riding but I think us shorties become better riders because we CAN'T dab that foot on a technical hill climb or through a super deep mud/water hole which just makes us COMMIT ;) The 144 is a SUPER forgiving bike to ride...anticipate your daughter will love the 125 platform.
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Awesome! Thanks for the input. I agree with your point about how shorter folks learn differently. All of use eventually learn how to stay on the pegs more. I was telling my daughter today that even for me, stopping on a hill can be tricky. Sure being 6'5'' has helped me, but I know a number of short guys that are awesome riders.

One aspect of riding is balance. In the Euro pro ranks, I think a lot of the best enduro dudes competed in trials when they were younger.
 
Hendricus said:
Good stuff! Can I get you to tell me the general area where you are riding? I don't recognize it.
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I don't know where you ride...even what state, but I ride mostly in the southeast part of San Diego county. This trail is in McCain Valley near the town of Boulevard. The staging spot is called Lark Canyon OHV area.
 
Dirtdame, thanks again for sharing the videos. I like your sure-footed style. We are moving forward with getting a Husky 125. I test rode one yesterday. I want one for myself now :) - well maybe a 250 or 300. I'll post a pic soon.

I'm intrigued by the Lark Canyon area where you ride. Is it a big area? Are there a lot of single tracks similar to the ones you shared, or are these the rare couple of lightly traveled single tracks out there? Are there any difficult climbs in the area?

I recently rode the Hixon and Alesandro trails east of Hemet. (Others have posted video of these trails on Youtube if you are interested.) Great trails, but in half a day you've covered all that's available in this area. I think there are a few unmarked trails in this area, but I don't think there are too many. So I hold this one as 1/2 - 3/4 day trip. A day of riding is never a bad day - well, so long as you keep the wheel side down.

If you were to tell me that the Lark Cyn area is diverse, and that it would take a couple of days to explore it all, I'd be more intrigued to ride it. One of my interest in riding is exploring new areas.
 
Hendricus said:
Dirtdame, thanks again for sharing the videos. I like your sure-footed style. We are moving forward with getting a Husky 125. I test rode one yesterday. I want one for myself now :) - well maybe a 250 or 300. I'll post a pic soon.

I'm intrigued by the Lark Canyon area where you ride. Is it a big area? Are there a lot of single tracks similar to the ones you shared, or are these the rare couple of lightly traveled single tracks out there? Are there any difficult climbs in the area?

I recently rode the Hixon and Alesandro trails east of Hemet. (Others have posted video of these trails on Youtube if you are interested.) Great trails, but in half a day you've covered all that's available in this area. I think there are a few unmarked trails in this area, but I don't think there are too many. So I hold this one as 1/2 - 3/4 day trip. A day of riding is never a bad day - well, so long as you keep the wheel side down.

If you were to tell me that the Lark Cyn area is diverse, and that it would take a couple of days to explore it all, I'd be more intrigued to ride it. One of my interest in riding is exploring new areas.
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Lark Canyon has a lot of small trails. You could probably explore all the legal stuff in one day. There are lots of rocky slabs to play on also. About ten miles to the west, there is another OHV area called Corral Canyon, which has some black diamond trails. I would be happy to show you around the place. I'll probably be showing another CH member around Lark in a week or two.
 
I have a 2013 WR 125 with 165cc and a 2005 Ally frame YZ125.
I never had any problem with my YZ- this bike has a build quality like a tank compared to my husky- eventually i will buy a Yamaha WR125 or 250 soon but still keep my husky.
The WR engine (with stock 125cc) has better low end power, rev further but the yz is such a good package wich is why i love it.
I also had the older yz 125 form 1996,98,00,01,04- they are all good bikes- but the 2005 on are so much better.
if i would have the choice between a 1998 husky or yz- i probably would pick the husky.
 
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