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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

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lankydoug

lankydoug

Husqvarna
Pro Class
I just finished doing a crank and top end on a YZ125 that the PO had put a HotRods crank in. The HotRods crank lasted only 6 months so I wasn't about to buy another one. I sent Vince @ MrCrankshaft the crank on a Thursday and had it back on the following Tuesday. He is an old school machinist and mechanic and like me he refuses to use cheap parts. We got to talking on the phone about bikes, drag cars, trials, and getting more kids in to dirt bikes. I found him to be a really cool guy with a lot of enthusiasm for motorcycles. One thing that I thought I share with my Husky brethren is that his opinion of Husqvarna components and other euro brands was very high. He said materials were top quality, precisely assembled and not compromised by shortcuts such as poor heat treating of parts or only surface hardening parts that should have been completely hardened. This is not always the case with Weisco and HotRod crank kits that might use Chinese components.
 
lankydoug said:
I just finished doing a crank and top end on a YZ125 that the PO had put a HotRods crank in. The HotRods crank lasted only 6 months so I wasn't about to buy another one. I sent Vince @ MrCrankshaft the crank on a Thursday and had it back on the following Tuesday. He is an old school machinist and mechanic and like me he refuses to use cheap parts. We got to talking on the phone about bikes, drag cars, trials, and getting more kids in to dirt bikes. I found him to be a really cool guy with a lot of enthusiasm for motorcycles. One thing that I thought I share with my Husky brethren is that his opinion of Husqvarna components and other euro brands was very high. He said materials were top quality, precisely assembled and not compromised by shortcuts such as poor heat treating of parts or only surface hardening parts that should have been completely hardened. This is not always the case with Weisco and HotRod crank kits that might use Chinese components.
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good info and resource. The husky 125 sure do last a LONG time compared to most other 125's. Over built in a good way. I'll trade a few pounds for longevity any day.
 
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