• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 The WR125 had its first real test

jsleeper

jsleeper

Husqvarna
AA Class
Two weekends ago my wife, sister, and all our kids met up with some friends to ride. I changed the jets on my wife's WR125 and right when I was about to hand her the bike, she says: "Do you need to test ride it to make sure it is fine?" For about a second I thought about telling her, "no I just changed the pilot jet." But I could not resist a quick ride on the bike. So, I hopped on the bike and headed out with 3 other guys all on KTM 4ts (1 250f, and 2 450f). The quick ride turned into about an hour of hard charging (and almost running out of gas on the little bike).

I was so pleased with the WR's performance. It killed everyone in the tight stuff and was buzzing around on the open flowing trails. After we were done riding the guys I rode with said, "you ride that fast...are you shifting it nonstop?" (as they were panting and dripping with sweat). I hopped of the WR looked them in the face and said, "I was just test riding it for my wife, when do you guys want to push it?" OK. I did not really say that, but should have.

We went out again later that day. This time on my TC250. I am faster on the TC250 (no surprise), but did not feel as good as I did when riding my wife's micro motored bike alongside all these thumpers.

Oh yeah...and the WR has 82 hours on it with only a ring change.

JSleeper
 
I can relate - I am faster on the TE 250 but miss the 125 - you are lucky youve kind of got both
I find the 4T quicker in twisty stuff though - maybe the wr is quicker when you have lots of obstacles and trees
I think a Cr125 for the occasional track ride and a TE 250 for the trails would be my ideal set up
 
Fun story, JS! The thing that really blows me away about the little WR is how effortless it is to ride. Yeah, you have to pay more attention to what you're doing than when riding the big bikes, but everything is so smooth and easy.
I dig the 1-finger brake action and have to remind myself to use 2 fingers on the clutch or else my previously-injured finger will hurt later. I would probably be faster on the 250, too, but at this stage of my riding life it's all about the fun factor, which the 125 has in huge bunches
smile.gif
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top