• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

I love this time of year (pix)

Picklito;40181 said:
fantastic ride report!! Beautiful country and yes, nice work with the camera. Loved the church comment... feel the same way.

You guys (all you CafeHusky 125 riders) sure have me thinking about those WR125's. I'm fortunate to have several bike, including my "little mule" 2002 KTM 200 EXC and it's amazing. I was really surprised by it since I've traditionally been a big bore rider. So you're finding the 125 has enough bottom end to get through the truly tight and nasty stuff? Where torque is your friend? Not too crazy/pipey? You see, the last 125 I rode was an air cooled YZ125... the thought of a motor like that where I ride now is just FRIGHTENING!!! The Husky must be different. Sure wish I could try one.
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the husky WR125 has the odd ability to scratch and crawl up anything and do so off the powerband. It will lug up a hill like a good 250 2 smoke but with less power. I'm finding it a veritable billy goat in the technical hill climbs and have absolutely no issues tackling the really ugly technical climbs. I have out climbed 200/250 and 450's with this bike. You will not win any uphill races but it will climb anything. the light weight really helps here as well. Not finding any major limits with this bike like you might think there is. The time you loose to the bigger bikes speed wise on hill climbs you get back (and more) when things flatten out or head down hill, then it's all 125 time. :thumbsup:

Loving the 09 WR125 on the tight steep and gnarly stuff. :thumbsup:
 
Thanks for the 125 description. Sounds GREAT!! I'm trying to decide on my new bike and having a hard time. So now I need a TE450, a WR300... AND a WR125.

Think I can get that bill through the house committee?
 
Picklito;40611 said:
Thanks for the 125 description. Sounds GREAT!! I'm trying to decide on my new bike and having a hard time. So now I need a TE450, a WR300... AND a WR125.
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Naaa....Just the WR-125. :thumbsup:

That's all the bike a guy needs...:D

:cheers:
 
I've been loving my WR125 on the two rides I've had it on. Suspension was really harsh at first but after only 100 miles or so it's loosening up already. I can't say I fully agree with Kelly on it's technical climbing prowess, I'd say better than most bikes but my CR500 with a Rekluse and steering damper makes easy work of boulder filled hillclimbs that I struggle with a bit on the WR, keeping it up on the powerband, slipping the clutch like mad. As long as you don't lose your speed on the climb from getting bounced around it's great but if you do it's a little tough to get back. I figure it will make me a better rider in the long run and it makes some climbs that are downright boring on my CR500 a nice challenge which I enjoy.

All in all it will make an excellent choice for Gifford rides once the fuel situation is sorted out, I think I may be running a bit rich on the needle as I am running out of gas even faster than Kelly is. I have ridden the bike twice, and run it out of gas twice :( Lucikily the second time I had two bottles of gas in my back pack as I had anticipated needing them.

Whose idea was it to make a bike so easy and fun to ride that you want to go for six hour rides and then give it a tank that runs out in under two hours? Oh well, I will have that sitation resolved soon one way or another and look forward to putting some serious miles on it. I was absolutely amazed after 90 miles on it at the Timekeeper Enduro that I felt up to riding another 50 miles afterwords. That may not mean much to some people but those who have ridden with me know I usually start to struggle with my endurance after a few hours, this was almost six hours straight of riding and I was ready for more. Hard to put a price on that.
 
speedkills;40855 said:
I was absolutely amazed after 90 miles on it at the Timekeeper Enduro that I felt up to riding another 50 miles afterwords. That may not mean much to some people but those who have ridden with me know I usually start to struggle with my endurance after a few hours, this was almost six hours straight of riding and I was ready for more. Hard to put a price on that.
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I totally agree. Takes a little more metal power but much less physical. I have a lot more energy at the end of a long day. The lack of top heavy feel and not needing to always real it back in when it get out of hand is wonderful. Also don;t over look that the little power is not constantly making you do pull-ups.

As for the fuel issue, yeah, you ran out a good 5-7 miles before i did. You have the 35 pilot I have a 32.5, i bet your bike would run crisper with the 32.5 and get better mileage as well.

Look forward to ripping it up again bro :cheers:
 
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