125-200cc CR/WR125 sticky?

[Norman Foley]

Walt/Kelly do you think you could do a consolidated CR/WR 125 mod sticky? TMX to PWK conversion, Power Valve Spring kit info and PV arm bolt adjustment. This info just seems to be getting more spread out in multiple threads and harder to find.

 

[Motosportz]

Walt/Kelly do you think you could do a consolidated CR/WR 125 mod sticky? TMX to PWK conversion, Power Valve Spring kit info and PV arm bolt adjustment. This info just seems to be getting more spread out in multiple threads and harder to find.

Good idea. All the info is there just needs tacked in one spot. Pretty much just need the PWK info / jets etc, pix showing how to adjust the PV arm, throttle cable info and that should about do it right?

heres the PV actuating arm pic (shown in stock form, mod is to move it to the top of the slot)

 

[MattR]

You could do an "index" thread that links to the best threads on the particular topics. The index thread could be separated into your major topics with any relative threads located therein. Just a thought...

 

[wallybean]

Matt,

That is a great idea. I can help with some stuff and pics but I think it has all been in one post or another.

Walt

 

[Norman Foley]

Do it however you think best, but make the essential info easy to find and updated.

 

[john01]

Index, sticky, whatever but it sounds like a great idea to me. It will beat reading back through post trying to find the really good stuff.

 

[wallybean]

I think the check list for WR125 owners is pretty much what Kelly indicated:

1) When you purchase the bike just add ~$250 to the price and order the PWK airstriker at the same time. The JD kitted PWK from Motosportz is the best way.

2) Adjust your linkage in the picture to the top.
a) IF after you have it running like a raped ape you want to change
engagement rpms or the progressive nature of how the pv's
open then invest in the spring kit.

3) Add the protection of your choice and hopefully an aluminum skid plate made to fit.

4) Add a larger tank if Husky doesn't expand the current 2.3 gallon tank.

5) After break in at the very least change your fork oil and bleed the inner chamber. I wanted more and sent mine out for some work, several very talented people to choose from- LTR, ACE, WER, etc.

6) For the auto clutch crowd, EFM does a bang up job for the Husky 125. I highly recommend them.

7) For pipes, while the stock unit works ok, I feel the FMF Fatty combined with the TC2 silencer adds a little everywhere. Kelly's Doma works phenomenal as I have heard that from others with this pipe on other makes 125's( of course you have to find one).

8) The new 125's have incredible brakes, spit you off into the tree in front of you type brakes. Add these to some Motoz tires and you can learn all about the oh s$%t moment. Controlling the rear brake is made much easier with a LHRB that works in concert with the pedal. Rekluse makes a kit that works well if expensive. EFM also makes a kit that is much less expensive but you will need to combine this with a two finger clutch lever sold by Rekluse.

9) All the bike prep tips for other models apply: grease everything that takes grease before you ride. Tighten all the usual suspects like sprocket bolts, motor mounts, etc.. Water proof your air box by either taping off the bottom water drain ports and slitting your tape or plug them with compressed airfilter foam, stops water and dirt from just flowing into the airbox.

10) My opinion is that the 144 adds that bit extra everywhere that makes a great bike close to perfect. It hauls my 230LB riding weight up pretty severe climbs any way I want to. Putzing on the bottom end, mildly motoring up quickly in the mid-range or absolutely hair on fire freaking out of control on the pipe grabbing gears as fast as you can. You can spend a little more and keep your original top end for resale and order the Husky oem kit, spend $300 less and get the Eric Gore kit, or do it yourself by ordering an 05-09 YZ144 Vertex forged piston kit from Oemcycle.com and send it with your power valves and cylinder to Millenium with a total cost of about $320. Sending your stuff to George Erl at Uptite Husqvarna is also a fairly painless way to accomplish this.

11) Maybe Coffee in his spare time can attach links to the pertinent threads that deal with all these things.

12) This really needs to be a living thread that can be added to as more "Stuff" is developed, learned, or comes available.

Walt

 

[rockdancer]

I was going to suggest this too advice on carby jetting, power valve, changing pistons and rings , 144 kits, compression testing, suspension adjustment could be in general forum

 

[dartyppyt]

Very Helpful Guys and excellent idea Norm! Now I can add everything to my Husky grocery list.

Typpyt

 

[Motosportz]

- Clarke tank (soon) P3 tank now (expensive / wait time)

- FMF SA muffler

- watch for rubbing of the exhaust on shock resi

- PWK and Mikuni jetting specs

- Do steering head and linkage bearings ASAP (all huskys)

 

[Coffee]

I've been watching this thread. While it is incredibly interesting to discuss 'what' should be filed away for easy access, might I suggest focusing on 'who' should be doing the filing?

It does not need to be the most knowledgeable person, or even persons, just someone that is good at coming back, making requested updates, good organizer, etc.

In the future things will probably be different but for the time being I suggest this:

• Pick the top 1 or 2 people (in order)
• I'll create a sticky with person 1 in the first post, person 2 in the 2nd post.
• Then person 1 can keep the information organized and #2 as a back up if #1 person becomes unavailable.
• The "what to put in post #1/2" can be added in that thread and could even be hundreds of posts long. Then person #1/2 can file things suggested in post #1/2.

Person 1/2 could be anyone

Sound like a plan? Like a Table of Contents (or any other method you want).

 

[Motosportz]

I nominate Walt

 

[Coffee]

I nominate Walt

He is certainly good at generating good information. I've no idea who is good at coming back and organizing information though. Norm is another, and MattR seems to understand the concept of a single or even double indexing post such as advrider has.

dunno.....

 

[john01]

I'll second Walt as long as it doesn't take his time away from R&D on the 125's LOL.

 

[MattR]

Here are a couple examples of index threads. The possibilities are endless. Like Coffee suggests, I would recommend 1 thread for compiling the "final" indexed items. Then, use another thread for on-going suggestions, improvements, and/or links to new threads. The person(s) adding the final data should be the only authors of the index thread. This could be controlled by locking the index thread with access rights only to those individuals. Or those person(s) could be made a moderator of that subforum only.

Example #1:
GasGas Bike Reviews (I created this one as Moderator on GasGas Rider's Club):
http://www.gasgasrider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1959

Example #2:
Here is the TE/SM610 Index thread on ADVRider:
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=156431

Example #3:
Here is the ThumperTalk index thread for Huskies:
http://www.thumpertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=544825

Example #4:
Here is the GasGas jetting database.
http://www.gasgasrider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=2162

I recently started a jetting database thread on Cafe Husky and like our CH categories better. As you will see, GG Riders are continually adding information and it has been a useful database for GG riders. I hope our CH version will get "stickied" to encourage usage. A nice improvement would be to create a "HTML table version" that people could edit to add their data. This could be a wiki-style of page with an easy edit feature.

 

[Coffee]

Ummmm.... I cannot even use html, not in a forum, unless everyone is allowed to put up html. And I'm afraid that is never going to happen. It is a limitation of the software we are using.

I would really like to see who ever organizes the information to not need moderator powers. We can sticky whatever you want though.


TT just announced they are going to use new software soon, and at some point this year I hope we go to a completely different system as well. So I'd rather not be making any large changes at this point.

 

[MattR]

He is certainly good at generating good information. I've no idea who is good at coming back and organizing information though. Norm is another, and MattR seems to understand the concept of a single or even double indexing post such as advrider has.

dunno.....

Coffee,

One of the individuals should be passionate about Huskies and active contributor to the site. Walt, Norm, and Kelly would be my first choices since they are typically both vocal and knowledgable about all things Husky-related. The 2nd person for organizing the data could be myself. I'm typically on here daily and I'm used to moderating/organizing forum data over on GasGas Rider's Club. I think a few PM's between me, you, and the "other" person could get this ball rolling. Sound like a plan?

 

[Norman Foley]

Coffee,

One of the individuals should be passionate about Huskies and active contributor to the site. Walt, Norm, and Kelly would be my first choices since they are typically both vocal and knowledgable about all things Husky-related. The 2nd person for organizing the data could be myself. I'm typically on here daily and I'm used to moderating/organizing forum data over on GasGas Rider's Club. I think a few PM's between me, you, and the "other" person could get this ball rolling. Sound like a plan?

Kelly and Walt are way more qualified than me. Matt has the organizational skills!

 

[wallybean]

Well as much as I could probably function as person #1 or #2 in the winter, my golf course maintenance year just kicked into the 7 day a week variety. I have only put in 40 hours in the last 3 days(yes that was a snivel, too damn windy and cold). My available time is November thru March and then I get busy. So I don't think that being responsible for this is a good Idea. I can do the winter months to relieve the main guys but this time of year I am barely coherant in the evening when I have time. I will contribute any way I can just would hate to drop the ball through exhaustion.

I think that Matt's organizational skill is a perfect match. Maybe we can talk Woodschick into taking on even more. You all know how much I like this site and have a propensity to blather on and on, I just don't want to disapoint anyone that wants to be apart of the Husky 125 frenzy.

Walt

 

[Coffee]

Let me start up a thread asking for volunteers.

I'd really like to keep things uber simple for the time being and implement what I proposed in my post #11 though.