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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

All 2st looking for a mud bike

water racer

water racer

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Long story short, the weather is wet and nasty, and I just don't want to drag my nice shiney '09 wr125 through the mud and slop, nor do I want to do damage to our single track.
I saw a wr125 on craigs list cheap that the guy says is a '99, but it appears to me to have 00-04 plastic style. If it is a '99, are there any glaring reasons why this couldn't be a good bike to slosh through the atv trails with compared to maybe an '02 or '04?
Thanks, GP
 
at the risk of getting run off the reservation. I'd go with an older yammie wr 250f for a use it and abuse it mud bike. Lots of traction and no worries about being mean to your favorite ride.
 
Those yamahas are tough, but I think I want to stay with the light weight and simplicity of a 125, and I am hoping maybe some of my spares will cross over.
Looking for some input on the older wr125's.
GP
 
water racer;139054 said:
Those yamahas are tough, but I think I want to stay with the light weight and simplicity of a 125, and I am hoping maybe some of my spares will cross over.
Looking for some input on the older wr125's.
GP
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I have a 1993 Honda CR125 that is a good beater bike. I have around $900 into it, after rebuilding everything... :thumbsup:
 
I have an '06 WR250 Husky that I go back and forth on wanting to sell......then wanting to keep. So, catch me on the right day and I'll let her go for $2,000. I love her but I'm racing my Yamaha wr290 now so I just don't show her any attention. I hate having a bike just sitting. She's only been ridden once since September. Comes with Scott's Stabilizer and sub mount and a bunch of other goodies. PM me if you're interested.
 
I have a 1998 wr 125 but switched to the 1999 forks at the current time. I think a 1999 might be a better choice in a couple of ways than a more modern one. I am not saying in total it is better. The transmission is marginally wider ratio. Mine has grease fittings at the swingarm pivot not sure about the 1999. Mine also seems to have a more sensible airbox.

A lot is dependent on how the bike has been ridden. I remember when I was in a bike club that a few members went out to Oklahoma when they had the ISDE as workers and they came back and told of how the Europeans came over on 125 bikes and never got off the gas. I am not so sure a 1999 era bike treated that way is all that advisable.

As far as damage to the single-track That depends on how hard you twist the thottle and when you don't ride. I happened to be in the Jackson Tn area a few months ago and the grass was mostly dead but they had got 18 inches of rain in one storm in the spring.

Fran
 
Quite a few guys out there use older KTM's and alot of YZ's. They can pick them up cheap. I almost snagged a KTM 125 for $500.
 
I just sold a perfect '02 KTM 250 for 1900.00, I guess I could have kept that for my beater bike.
I see a lot of '99-'02 wr125's for less than 1000.00
It makes since to me, cheap, light weight, low end grunt, and maybe my spare air filters and wheel bearings , seals, brake pads will fit.
I just don't know anything about the older ones.
I would like to see some of the veteran Husky 125 riders put together a year by year geneology of the model changes with strengths and weaknesses starting sometime in the 90's up to present day for our cr-wr125 index thread.
By the way, I do get my new one muddy, I just want to keep it fresh as long as possible, and the atv trails can be really nasty this time of year.
GP
 
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