• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 I Rode The Prototype Wr200 And It Is Amazing...

Put an hour or so on my WB165 and it is amazing, even with the fmf fatty and jetted rich. I say go for it you will like it.
 
My WR/WB165 at the Curly Fern Enduro....

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Motosportz said:
Not sure exacly how this happened but I now own my 3rd 04 CR125. Ordered up all white plastic, looking for blue graphics. Suspension will go to Richard at House of Horsepower for his magic, Seat to seat concets for thier magic, cylinder to Walt for his 165 majic and i should end up with the nicest 04 ever :D Alsways loved the 2000-2004 narrow bikes with low fuel tank but always hated the forks on those. This one is going to get slowly decked out. All that it can be.

will get Motoz Terrapactors front and rear and the Doma pipe before it's initial feel me out ride and tear down.

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With the '09' frame and layout said to be superior to even an '08, do you feel like you are giving up very much with an '04? If you get the forks working better, how much difference do you think?
GP
 
I took my WB165 out last weekend for the first time. I'm currently running the 125 FMF pipe and RB modded TMX. My jetting was a tad lean on top but it was still everything I was hoping it would be. If the 200 pipe makes it better, that's just icing on the cake. There's now enough bottom end to loft the front end over logs and trail trash without using the clutch. I can also climb rutted rocky hills without abusing the clutch, just downshift and go.

Thanks Walt, you've saved me from looking for a GasGas or KTM 200. All of my riding buddies I've told of this project have had the same reaction, "oooooh, I want to ride it".
 
water racer said:
With the '09' frame and layout said to be superior to even an '08, do you feel like you are giving up very much with an '04? If you get the forks working better, how much difference do you think?
GP
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The 125 is so light the differences is not as huge as say as on the WR250/300 to the x-light type of comparison but do think the new 09 and up frame and forks are superior. I do like the ergos and low larger tank on the 04. I also always liked the look of the 2000-04 especially in white and blue. The 05-08 is my least favorite as they seem taller with the big wide seat and high mounted tank. I like the 09 and up, then the 2000-04 then the 05-08. All very good bikes and 125 fun. The 08 CR125 seems to be the runner of the bunch. Actually my 04's all ran strong too. What's odd is it seems the 09 and up are the ones needing motor help.
 
water racer said:
With the '09' frame and layout said to be superior to even an '08, do you feel like you are giving up very much with an '04? If you get the forks working better, how much difference do you think?
GP
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04 is the same as the 08.

The 09 and later bikes turn better...not that the old ones were bad....the newer ones are fantastic.

For some reason the 04 motor ran great stock but the new ones don't run well at all without a bit of tinkering!
 
wallybean said:
I thought you would like something like that. Trade you for a Northeast Husky gathering tee shirt. Joe keeps promising but he can't pull the trigger on that or the 165. I figure when you roost him a few times this spring he will get with the program. :D
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What size? I'll see what I have.... Joe got a second in his class at Curly Fern on the 144, so maybe he doesn't need that extra 21cc's of "Old Man Help" yet!
 
Just got my suspension back today********************************************************************************!! Cannot wait to get the 165 back together********************************************************************************! Now if all the parts get in********************************************************************************
 
Norman Foley said:
Lindsay repaired and brought my P3 tank back to me at Curly Fern. He said pipe guards were ready, so you should get a call soon.
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I guess Eric never reads his Emails nor returns calls when product is ready. Still waiting. Waiting........waiting..........waiting................waiting............zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
 
Hold a second,I have to catch my breath.Just took out my WB165 for the 1st time out behind my houseon my mini test loop.I swear Walt designed this bike for NewEnglands slow nasty rocky rooty and rutts .After 2 days of idling here and there i put in some gear just to break it in and 1st thing I noticed is it wont stall,my rock gardens are nasty and I went thru in 2nd gear barely moving and the motor sounded like sewingmachine,wouldn.t as much as hick up,amazing tractor like power.I will ride this weakend in much faster type pinetree forest with massive hills,I already know this is a killer hill climber,quick run down on what my setup is.FMF FATTY KTM 200sx pipe 13/48 gearing 100-100-18 tire TMX 5.0 slide suz needle in middle 470 main 32.5 pilot 1.5as stock spring and linkage in around the middle,so far I,m very happy. Bike is a 09 wr125,well used to be.
Dave
 
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