• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Rim Repair/Replacement Help

freezerGeezer

freezerGeezer

Husqvarna
AA Class
Returned from a ride at the weekend and while unloading the bikes a friend noticed a crack in my rear rim (2004 CR125 with OEM Excel rims).

I have heard of people welding them but I'm a bit cautious to be honest, although I do have access to good Alu welder guy....... Anyone else here ever repaired one?

Gut feeling is that I should change the rim, is it something I can do myself if I make a simple jig for the building/truing ? and an pointers appreciated!

Thanks

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Weld it. That's usually where it was welded from factory. I do it all time on vintage bikes. On the inside of rim your welder can do an extra wide bead, then grind it smooth but leave little more weld where you don't see it.
 
Been a while since this post but did ended up getting it welded up. Has had a few outings and the bike is now in bits for new linkage bearings, 165 kit and various other bits & pieces.
suffered a puncture on the last outing and just noticed the rim has cracked again, worse this time so going to replace it.

A couple of questions:

I was under the impression that 125 2t's used a 1.85 rear rim but the husky has a 2.15? Is this the norm?
I have a 1.85 spare rim could I use it for the replacement or should I source a 2.15 rim

Thanks
 
rim has cracked again, worse this time so going to replace it. [/quote]

Sorry to hear it didn't hold up but thanks for validating my decision to pull the trigger on new rims. My front had cracked just like your rear. I also had a ton of corrosion.
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This being the second time round I just don't think I would be happy ridding on it, first time it had just cracked on the side this time it spread along the inside towards the spokes.

Any way I have a spare rim but its a 1.85 where as the original is a 2.15 , is there any reason at all why I cant/shouldn't use the 1.85?

Also can anyone suggest spoke supplier in the UK and is there anything specific with the 2004 hub that I should be aware of when ordering spokes or matching to a rim?

Thanks
 
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