• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 weight saving tips 125

yzrider

yzrider

Husqvarna
AA Class
After reading an extensive build of an rmz450 on thumpertalk but LSeca i want to do some lightness mods. Reading his thread has a ton of tips and tricks on how to shave off serious weight. Im going to do some of the easy stuff. Certain tires, chains, sprockets, rim locks, tubes are lighter than others and ill start there. Are there anything you guys know of thats husky specific to look at. On Yamahas i knew of certain year calipers, swingarms, etc that were lighter than others,

Any tips and help is appreciated, im not going to drop 4k in titanium but just making some smart changes and tricks i bet i can get 10 pounds off of it.
 
On my bike I shaved quite bit of weight by switching out the stock heavy duty tubes to standard tubes. Replaced the back tire with a Pirelli XCMS or MXMS which are really light. I also replaced the steel pegs and gear shift with aluminum ones.
 
run it as a 'naked'? nah i think tyres, tubes, chain, sprockets pretty much it without getting into drilling bolt heads out or titanium hardware. maybe lighter wheelset but getting exy. bars, levers, pegs, tank, seat foam, triples, exhaust system, springs. not sure how much youd gain(well lose) but if you got the budget go hard brother!:thumbsup:
 
titanium shock and fork springs...go tubeless spoked wheels....and aftermarket triple clamps could save as much as 3-4lbs alone.
 
tires, tubes and chains are the EZ place to loose weight. Everything after that comes hard and expensive. Ti springs are several pounds lighter but $$$.
 
Check this seatfoam out. Not made for Husky but maybe could adapt?

http://thinktechnology.us/products.html

Also Husky has a bad habit of using bolts that are way longer than needed. Can use shorter bolts in many places. Also, I use Aluminum fasteners on motor covers and aluminum nuts on the linkage, can shave a pound or more with the bolts without popping for titanium.
 
Whats the point? As soon as you fly through the crappy mud your bike weighs shed loads more than what you've shaved off.
Get that coating which nothing sticks too, job jobbed.
 
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