• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 New CR125/144 Owner - My Story

Awesome story, awesome review of the first ride back as well. I think the biggest surprise for me was the front brake on the husky 125, that sucker stops! I had it on the front wheel coming into turns a couple times on accident! Light weight+ brembo brakes = big stopping power. Lots of clutching and lots of shifting to get around deep hilly tracks but that's what makes them fun.

Awesome looking bike too.
 
Good to see e few guys picked up these bikes - let us know what you think of the bike to ride compared to the YZ
 
rockdancer said:
Good to see e few guys picked up these bikes - let us know what you think of the bike to ride compared to the YZ
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Well, it's been a while since I got to wring out a YZ125, but from what I remember the bike was easier to ride, as it didn't have as hard a hit as the Husky. The YZ I raced was a bone-stock 2007, so the transition from out-of-the-powerband to the powerband was relatively smooth and mild. The Husky with the FMF pipe, the carb mod and of course the 144 kit really comes on when you hit the powerband. So for me, a long time 4-stroke rider/racer, it's a bit more to handle.

Overall the bikes are about the same identical weight (207lbs), but the YZ carries it's weight a bit lower and the bike had a lower CG feel. The Husky feels a tad smaller and definitely has a distinct braking advantage.

The bikes are similar, but they are also quite different in a few areas. Easier to beat the tar out of a Stock YZ125, but there is more potential in the Husky.
 
Jmetter.....I "liked" your video to FAST! After seeing the whole video and seeing those crashes I don't like seeing that. Please don't think I liked those parts, just the cool footage before :cheers:. Been broke up myself and it sucks.
 
Mhevezi said:
pack some clutch plates in the tool-box and I am done.
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I have 258 hours on my 09 125 with the stock clutch, it is bomb proof if it is not abused. I am not super hard on clutches but it is a 125 and it gets slipped a lot, but not burned. I have seen them go in less than 50 hours but that was from a slower guy trying to make up for lack of corner speed by frying the clutch. It made him sound fast...

Later,
 
john01 said:
Jmetter.....I "liked" your video to FAST! After seeing the whole video and seeing those crashes I don't like seeing that. Please don't think I liked those parts, just the cool footage before :cheers:. Been broke up myself and it sucks.
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No worries, I just have to look back on it and learn from it. It took a while until I was able to watch those without cringing. The first one I don't remember, the second one I wish I didn't remember...

Later,
 
Cool jmetter. I've had one bad crash (knock on wood)and don't remember anything but my son and friends had a ringside seat. Broke five ribs, cut liver, spleen, and big time concussion. They said the rear tire kicked sideways on a big jump and I landed completely sideways; well attempted to. Seems the big 510 went one way and my body the other. Rock don't watch the end :eek:!
 
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