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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

One more KTM to WR125 convert...

Motosportz

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Buddy John had a KTM450. Hated it in the woods. heard many times from buddy Adam how fun my 125 was and he picked one up without ever riding a 125. Luckily his factory supplied jetting worked very good and he was ripping on it in no time. Proclaimed it the best stock bike he has ever rode. LOVED it and was giggling in his helmet like we all do on these little 125's. We climbed some good hills and he was amazed at the lugging power. Another 125 convert in the books. :cheers:

Adams 07 WR250, Jonhs new WR125 and my 144.

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Happy new husky owner...

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BTW buddy John ordered the RM needle after reading your post. He was surprised how well it ran stock after reading this forum. He wondered what all the jetting posts were about. His is probably the best running stock on I have ridden. Weird. Will be interesting to see what the RM needle does for it.

dartyppyt;124082 said:
Good job! They are great bikes! Kelly, yours is looking really slick!
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up close it looks beat, cuz it is. This bike has seen it all and keeps ripping. I have pounded the crap out of this bike. Here is a picture of the rear disk guard that did it's job many times over. Look at the swing arm and wheel. this bike is thrashed :D rides like new though.

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Yeah, will be interesting to see what happens. Make sure he drops it in the 5.0 slide. I guess you have been doing some rock crushing. I wish we had places to ride like your areas. Still looks slick with the red forks, red head and swing arm decal. Man those motoz have some mean side claws on them. We'll call yours the The Husky Rockclawminator 144!

Darin
 
dartyppyt;124089 said:
Man those motoz have some mean side claws on them.
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those tires have over a 1000 miles on them!!! they need replaced but keep hooking up. Crazy.
 
Yes, I am a 125 convert! I'm truly amazed how well this bike worked. I put in the jetting kit in and it ran great. It climbed everything, suspension worked great, handling and turning excellent and the front brake was awesome. I finally learned how to do a stoppie (the hard way). Best stock bike I've ridden in a long time. Really surprising how much speed you can carry into the corners. This bike just works.
Here's a brief list of bikes I've owned: 99 KTM 250EXC, 02 Yamaha YZ250F, 01 CR250, 02 KX250, 04 Husky TE450, 04 Husky WR250, 04 KTM 250EXC, 07 KTM 250EXC....and I enjoyed the first ride on the WR125 the best :)
 
Since the bike will be staying...I got rid of the yamaha hand guards. Looks much better now. I picked up the RM needle and will give a full report but a few passes up and down the neighborhood I do notice a little crisper 0-1/4 throttle. As Kelly mentioned, It ran great with the provided jetting kit. (4 slide, bigger starter jet, 45 pilot, taper needle in the middle position, 1 1/2 turns out on the air screw and the gearing is 12-50)
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Mac,

Try and see if someone has a 5.0 slide you can stick in. Mine ran good with the 4.0 but best with the 5.0/RM needle. Make sure you watch your plug for a while. Sure is a sweet bike! What is your main/pilot you are running?

Thanx!

Darin
 
dartyppyt;124636 said:
Mac,

Try and see if someone has a 5.0 slide you can stick in. Mine ran good with the 4.0 but best with the 5.0/RM needle. Make sure you watch your plug for a while. Sure is a sweet bike! What is your main/pilot you are running?

Thanx!

Darin
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he has the 5.0 as it came in the bike. If not I have one.
 
Norman Foley;124639 said:
Cool! Husky small bores rock!:cheers:
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I belong in that photo, as I am over 45 years old, too :lol:

We'll have to gather the 125/144 crowd together while in Bend and get a photo of the western version of the little old club.




WoodsChick
 
dartyppyt;124652 said:
Norm,

Are you in the picture? Looks like a lotta fun! Bet some good stories Too!

Darin
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I think Norm's the fuzzy one 2nd from the right next to Drew :D




WoodsChick
 
WoodsChick;124650 said:
We'll have to gather the 125/144 crowd together while in Bend and get a photo of the western version of the little old club.

WoodsChick
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I think we'll have more small bores than that maybe even the odd 167 will show up :D
 
Try and see if someone has a 5.0 slide you can stick in.
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Darin,
The bike came with both slides. I have the 5.0 slide in with the RM needle in the middle position, 45 pilot, 460 main, and 1 1/2 turns out on the air screw. It's so easy to swap jets on this bike so I'll do some testing this weekend.
 
Mac,

Before its to late, swap those tires for some Motoz's from Kelly. Those stock Michelins will hurt you when you least expect it. :lol: I have a set that are virtually new and I can't find anyone that will take them as a gift.
 
I actually thought they worked fine last Sunday around Mt. Hood. Now, I've been riding KTM's and front end wash outs are the norm no matter what tire. This WR125 was very nimble but I'll definitely get a set Motoz's for the winter.
 
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