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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

All 2st What did you do to your Husky today?

All These parts to pass emissions are hardly used- when i got my bike- the dealer handed a box over where all this rubbish has been into... i never touched it since.
 
Was having a great ride on my new fav loop yesterday, getting air through a series of water breaks that have eroded into to nice rollers. Ooops, that big branch wasn't hanging over the trail last time, bonk! swap, body slam, ouch! Dayam she plays rough sometimes. No serious damage, but had to limp home with tweaked forks, sprained ankle and bruised clutch hand. Landed hard enough to loose the vent cover on top of my helmet. No Sunday ride for me :cry:
 
NCSteve said:
Was having a great ride on my new fav loop yesterday, getting air through a series of water breaks that have eroded into to nice rollers. Ooops, that big branch wasn't hanging over the trail last time, bonk! swap, body slam, ouch! Dayam she plays rough sometimes. No serious damage, but had to limp home with tweaked forks, sprained ankle and bruised clutch hand. Landed hard enough to loose the vent cover on top of my helmet. No Sunday ride for me :cry:
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i guess in these times its good for you AND the bike you were at least able to limp home. i guess in a way thats a win.
 
Thanks for the reminder, I'll keep repeating that as I un-tweak my front end and dig the trail trash out of all the nooks and crannys. :thumbsup:
 
09 144. I raced it! First xc of the season. I ended up first in the over 50 B class. Last weekend, first enduro, first place over 50 B class
It loves the tight stuff. It loves being the smallest bike in the class. It loves passing the bigger bikes.
 
Chef said:
09 144. I raced it! First xc of the season. I ended up first in the over 50 B class. Last weekend, first enduro, first place over 50 B class
It loves the tight stuff. It loves being the smallest bike in the class. It loves passing the bigger bikes.
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Excellent, congrat's! Where's the pics?

:cheers:
 
Can't seem to load pics from iPad or phone. I'll see if I can do it later. Lunch break now. Been out trail riding with the kids. They ride my race bike. I ride an 08 cr125 on the trails and they ride the wr144. Less hit for them is better. Pretty versatile bikes!
 
Installed a New Rear Tire!! It's a Moto Z mountain hybrid. If it works as good as it looks It should be a Great Tire.
Anyone else running one? if so what psi? I also using a Ultra HD tube from Michelin.

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Nice, interested in how that tire works for you and which size you got.
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It worked great! 120/90x18 and I ended up about 8psi or maybe 10psi. I started off at 12 and it was way too much. I run an ultra HD tube and was a little nervous of such a low pressure setting, but it gave me no fits. So far I have about 80 or 90 miles on them in the past 2 days and the tread blocks are just barely showing some rounding off. Excellent cornering, hookup and braking. If it holds up as well as they say, it will be replaced with another when the time comes.
 
marcmo0 said:
It worked great! 120/90x18 and I ended up about 8psi or maybe 10psi. I started off at 12 and it was way too much. I run an ultra HD tube and was a little nervous of such a low pressure setting, but it gave me no fits. So far I have about 80 or 90 miles on them in the past 2 days and the tread blocks are just barely showing some rounding off. Excellent cornering, hookup and braking. If it holds up as well as they say, it will be replaced with another when the time comes.
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Sounds great, thanks. So running on any hard surfaces, especially fast fire roads?
I'd love max traction in the woods, but I do @ 7 miles of hard, rocky, fast fire roads (and love it!) to get to my local trails. Stock Michelin Enduro Comp tires started chunking on day 1, even the front. Have been sticking to IT tires, but wondering if any of the better ST tires can handle @ 25% HT.

:cheers:
 
Quite a few minor mods and repairs over the last couple of weeks. Most irritating and effective has been finding a big crack at the inside crease of the carb intake boot. :thumbsdown: What a POS! Was also separating on the inside where the rubber mates to the metal base. New OEM seems like harder material and measured 2mm smaller ID, so tight fit. Plus side is bike runs much better and Lectron tuning now makes sense.

Also playing with gears, chain length, tire combos. Waiting on a 49T rear sprocket and 114 link chain to test 14:49/3.50. With my former somewhat worn rear tire I shortened the chain to 110 links and liked the shorter wheelbase after adjusting the forks, but the clearance to the mudflap was minimal.
Installed a Kenda 120/100, replacing IRC 5.10, hoping it would be true to size and smaller, but it's a big SOB and have to run 112 link chain and then re-adjust forks to compensate. Def prefer the shorter chain/wheelbase and hope the 14:49 combo will do it. More later....

Fav improvement lately has been EBC X red, carbon brake pads on the front. Excellent feel, feedback and stopping power and seem to be wearing well.
Did the rear too, but with EBC sintered copper pads which are excellent too. I ordered the EBC MXS kit for both front and back which include new hardware, so both ends got new brake pins and cotter pins. Also cleaned, greased and bled out most of the old fluid. Now I have the best brakes ever on a dirt bike for me. :thumbsup:

Another pos, had all the body work off with the carb repair, fairly pissed and checked it from end to end for any other nonsense I might have missed. Don't know if they're all alike, but I have a pretty big bundle of excess wire tied underneath the top tube. Knocked the crud off it and realized there was a Reg/Rectifier under it! From what I've read a lot of the BMW/Huskys didn't come with a R/R, so am happy to find it.

Great riding here when it's not raining

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Fresh grass track with flowers :cheers:
 
What did I do to my Husky today......almost done with my resto-mod of my 1999 WR250. No stone left unturned. Its easier to list what I still want / need to do....like newer bark busters, modify a front disc guard for a newer year WR to fit, Hyde skid plate, new foot pegs, VForce3 reed block.

Some of the most fruitful mods to date were the PWK 38 Airstriker, from a 2000 Honda CR250, changed jetting for the Husky and was the biggest transformation in how the bike runs. WER suspension revalve. Drew does amazing work with the zokes or any fork for that matter. Graphics are the design from the 2014 Husky TE overlaid on the 1999 templates. GraphicMX in Butler PA did these for me. He can basically do whatever you think of and he uses the best thick vinyl that is the strongest I have ever seen.
 

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competed in my 3rd hare and hound last weekend, was ran off track by a gas gas wanker and hit a tree hard with my head. finished 12 in class on a wr125 with lost time, could be in the top 10 after a lap recount due to bad organising.hit the local mx track for some speed practice the weekend and got a shiny rad brace because i like dropping the bike :D
 
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