• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 husqvarna's are amazing!

G

gazmcfaza

Husqvarna
AA Class
perhaps not in the right place for posting so apologies, but yesterday I took my 05 husky wre 125 out for an off road trip down a track. As I got further down hill the surface became more muddy and after a while my front wheel became wedged in mud. I jumped off the bike to try and shift it, and then realised I was so far in the mud that my boots were completely under the surface. SCARY! I tried desperately to get the bike out but the back wheel span and span without the bike moving. I couldn't shift it by myself so I had to climb out the bog. The mud was at least at the height of the frame, with the front caliper completely under it. I managed to climb out the side of the bog and get out, which was lucky considering the rain then started to pour downwards. I had to abandon the bike from 4pm as I was alone and far from help. Luckily a local farmer agreed to help me if I came back at half 7 this morning, so we went to get the bike, which was still somehow stood up right. With a lot of pulling at the bars and with me falling over a lot we managed to turn the bike around and get it onto the less muddier area. I then choked the engine, kicked it over, and 4th kick, NEEE, NEEEE! I was staggered. The engine was nearly covered in freezing mud for 17 hours, the seat was covered in ice, and it was running just fine. I gave it gas up the path and powered up the hill back towards the farm. I guess I was pretty lucky that the bike didn't fall down on top of me out there. But yes, summary, two stroke husky, fantastic engineering! The photos are taken after I got the bike home and back onto farmland. Perhaps pointless post but thought someone would like to hear about my adventure201220131387.jpg201220131388.jpg201220131392.jpg201220131391.jpg
 
Had a similar experience drowning mine in a creek and after pumping water out of spark plug hole it started straight up
Love em
 
I meant half seven am, so it was stood from afternoon until early morning. Yeah I was worrying all night about it, all it would have taken is a late night walker to call a friend and she would have been gone!! I've got 18000 miles on it now, dynoed at 28 hp so probably like 25 at the wheel? I will try to add photos later on of it's predicament
 
perhaps the pictures are a little deceptive as taken on my phone in a rush, but the mud around the wheels was so soggy, when I tried to dig it out the water just kept running back into the hole I'd just dug. See how far my legs are into it??
 
Huskys really are tanks and the best undiscovered secrets out there. I laugh every time I am on thumper talk and read about the wr300's for example are problematic and prone to seizures.
 
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