• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 the 2013 WR125

Dirtdame

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So I finally got my spark arrestor yesterday. That meant that I would be on the trails the next day, and I was. I spent about two hours poking around the high desert singletrack with my new machine for the very first time.

It started easily enough and ran good from lower RPMs on up. I was especially impressed by how clean it would lug on rocky, sandy uphills.:thumbsup: It seems to have more low end power than I remember 2012 that I rode at press day a couple of years ago.

About halfway through the ride, I began to wish that I was riding my 300 though, as the stock suspension on the 125 was quite stiff for my weight and riding style. Not sure of what I need....I think maybe .38s on the front, and I need to find out what the stock spring is on the back. I rode high speed, deep whoops and only got the forks to compress about two thirds of the way. Jeff was following me and said the air space between the rear tire and the fender wasn't closing much at all. I'm too old to be getting my butt whacked like that.:(

Anyway, the first impression was favorable, but I need to make the bike way more cushy to really put it through its paces.
 
Nice. Yeah, its an MX bike and MX valving. I hate to say it but the best thing to do is send it to zipty and have them do it up. I'd have it lowered some too. Then you will love it. Otherwise you spend a lot of time and frustrating rides trying to sort it out. It needs far different valving for you. Have fun.
 
Dirtdame said:
It certainly has different front forks. Open cartridge style on the WR. My friends at Precision Concepts have done the valving on my 450 and my 300. After I get the right spring rates, I can have the high speed float loosened up on both ends of the suspension by them.
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I found mine way too soft for my weight. I fitted stiffer springs which made a world of difference but it still needs some valving work done. I love mine to bits. I wish I bought one years ago.

Standard spring rates should be providing AUS and US specs are the same.
Front 4.2N/mm
Rear 5.0KG/mm
 
72racerx said:
Standard spring rates should be providing AUS and US specs are the same.
Front 4.2N/mm
Rear 5.0KG/mm
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Thanks for the info. I'm running a .40 in the 300 front, so a .38 should be good for the 125. Now I know where I need be on the rear shock spring as well.:thumbsup:
 
Dirtdame said:
So I finally got my spark arrestor yesterday. That meant that I would be on the trails the next day, and I was. I spent about two hours poking around the high desert singletrack with my new machine for the very first time.

It started easily enough and ran good from lower RPMs on up. I was especially impressed by how clean it would lug on rocky, sandy uphills.:thumbsup: It seems to have more low end power than I remember 2012 that I rode at press day a couple of years ago.

About halfway through the ride, I began to wish that I was riding my 300 though, as the stock suspension on the 125 was quite stiff for my weight and riding style. Not sure of what I need....I think maybe .38s on the front, and I need to find out what the stock spring is on the back. I rode high speed, deep whoops and only got the forks to compress about two thirds of the way. Jeff was following me and said the air space between the rear tire and the fender wasn't closing much at all. I'm too old to be getting my butt whacked like that.:(

Anyway, the first impression was favorable, but I need to make the bike way more cushy to really put it through its paces.
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Good to see you are out riding again! Enjoyed watching your video, and you look as though you haven't missed a beat.
 
Dirtdame said:
For sure. The bike can stop REALLY fast when the handle bars whack into the brush along the trial.:rolleyes:
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Yep they are a necessity for any tr.ail riding as far as I'm concerned. I dropped my my bike a few times when the briars grabbed my front brake lever on times when I rode with out bark busters. .
 
Great looking bike! My local dealer still has a new 2012 with the 144 kit on the floor. Can't seem to move it here in Chicago I guess. They are asking $3500, I might just have to snag it but it probably won't fit my 6'4" frame too well. I guess I could wing it until my 10 year old gets big enough for it. Seems too good to pass up.
 
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