• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 First Ride On My 2013 WR125

huskybear said:
I'm 6'2",36" inseam and find my wr fits me well with the stock seat. My husaberg is a little taller and has a brick for a seat. Any-time I ride strictly trails, I take the wr for several reasons-lighter,more fun and less tiring to ride,suspension and seat are plusher and I feel like a hero when I ride it! (embarrassing my buddies on their larger bikes doesn't hurt either:lol:)
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Huskybear, you and my Numba 2 son are very close in size, and he fits the bike very well. Fortunately for me he has never ridden a motorcycle, so I don't worry about him sneaking it out for a ride. But seeing the big smile on his face while sitting on the bike gives me an uneasy feeling. HA!
 
sabortooth said:
I blame the break of my leg on the heigth of the wr.
Every time the bike has been dropped it has been on the downside of a incline and always on the right side. I have pondered lowering the bike but I know that if I do I'll probably mess up the nicest suspension I've ever known. One more week and I'll know if I can come out of thie cast, at that time I'll lower the clamps on the forks and lower the sag in the rear and see what that gets me. That should be easy to reverse if I dont like it.
Jan 29th is when I get my new to me trials bike. I'll not be complaining about tall bikes anymore.
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Sabortooth, sorry to find out about your leg. At 62 years old the thought of any breakage to my chassis makes my backside clench.
I'm holding suspension lowering as a last resort. I'm with you about not wanting to mess up the suspension geometries. A trials bike is still on my bucket list. LOL
 
PineapplePicker said:
At 62 years old the thought of any breakage to my chassis makes my backside clench.
I'm holding suspension lowering as a last resort. I'm with you about not wanting to mess up the suspension geometries. A trials bike is still on my bucket list. LOL
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I lowered another bike a while back. At first, I loved being able to get my feet down and dab in difficult situations, but after a while the novelty wore off, and I didn't like the way the suspension blew through the stroke, and needed a different spring or revalving to compensate. I also didn't like the way the bike behaved in high speed terrain, or knicked the case and frame rails in the rocks. I switched it back after less than a year.

My 125 seems nice and small compared to my 300, and I wouldn't even ever lower the 300. Falling off the 300 in low speed terrain feels like falling off the roof.:eek: Kick starting has been awkward, but is more manageable since its rejet. The 125 kicks so easily, that it isn't much of a burden except in an off camber situation.

The suspension on the little WR has been pulled and has an appointment for boinger tuning on Thursday, when the springs come in.
 
I have ridden a few lowered bikes that were done right and I really like them. Handling was better and they just hold a line. You do give up some compliance for big whoops and stuff. Everything is a tradeoff. I really think 10 quality inches is about perfect for off road.
 
Dirtdame said:
I lowered another bike a while back. At first, I loved being able to get my feet down and dab in difficult situations, but after a while the novelty wore off, and I didn't like the way the suspension blew through the stroke, and needed a different spring or revalving to compensate. I also didn't like the way the bike behaved in high speed terrain, or knicked the case and frame rails in the rocks. I switched it back after less than a year.

My 125 seems nice and small compared to my 300, and I wouldn't even ever lower the 300. Falling off the 300 in low speed terrain feels like falling off the roof.:eek: Kick starting has been awkward, but is more manageable since its rejet. The 125 kicks so easily, that it isn't much of a burden except in an off camber situation.

The suspension on the little WR has been pulled and has an appointment for boinger tuning on Thursday, when the springs come in.
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Ms Dirtdame, I'm curious. Are you having your suspension re-valve too?
 
I have all my bikes revalved. High speed shim stacks are made to respond faster to rocks and square edged ruts, so that there is more "float" and way less deflection. I did the revalving myself with a Gold Valve kit on two Kawasakis, and they turned out very nicely, but I settled on having Bob Bell do my Husqvarnas. He's fairly close by. I set an appointment for a day, take the shock and forks up and drop them off, go over and spend some time in Bass Pro Shop, the phone rings in about two or three hours, the suspension is done, I drive back, pick up the stuff, head home and install the fresh ride.
 
Motosportz said:
I have ridden a few lowered bikes that were done right and I really like them. Handling was better and they just hold a line. You do give up some compliance for big whoops and stuff. Everything is a tradeoff. I really think 10 quality inches is about perfect for off road.
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Kelly, I'm on point with your thinking. At this stage of my game, I am the weak link. IF I must lower the suspension I'll be asking all y'all to steer me to suspension gurus. In the mean time it's more saddle time for me! LOL
 
Dirtdame said:
I have all my bikes revalved. High speed shim stacks are made to respond faster to rocks and square edged ruts, so that there is more "float" and way less deflection. I did the revalving myself with a Gold Valve kit on two Kawasakis, and they turned out very nicely, but I settled on having Bob Bell do my Husqvarnas. He's fairly close by. I set an appointment for a day, take the shock and forks up and drop them off, go over and spend some time in Bass Pro Shop, the phone rings in about two or three hours, the suspension is done, I drive back, pick up the stuff, head home and install the fresh ride.
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Dang! Talk about quick turn around!! Where is he located? I used to live in Poway and familiar with San Diego County.
 
PineapplePicker said:
Dang! Talk about quick turn around!! Where is he located? I used to live in Poway and familiar with San Diego County.
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He's actually up in Riverside, 58 miles from my house. All I have to do to get the job done quick is schedule it far enough in advance, so that they can plan accordingly. I consider Bob and Diane to be friends, and they are very good people. I once started working on my forks (taking them apart) in their suspension "lab", while waiting for Bob to show up. The place has stainless steel counter tops, special holders for forks and cordless impact tools, and every surface in the work area is about clean enough to eat off of. It is impressively neat and organized.

Once I have the bike out in the field, I report back to Bob. If there is a problem, we discuss it by cell phone, then I e-mail the changes that I made to the final tuning back to Precision Concepts, so they know how the final settings are for future reference.
 
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