• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 WR125 Suspension Setup

jason380

jason380

Husqvarna
AA Class
I've got most of the parts gathered for the engine rebuild on this newly acquired 99 WR125 and now I'd like to start sourcing some suspension parts. I'm 200lbs without gear and run a B pace in harescrambles. I am not familiar with these bikes so please bear with me. I plan to rebuild the forks but I'm not sure what springs I should use. I run .44kg in my ktm 380 which work well. On the other hand would there be an advantage to swapping forks? It looks like the newest I could go is 2001 without swapping wheels. Maybe a wheel swap would be worthwhile if the newer forks are THAT much better.
As for the shock I plan to find a good used one. In pumpkinland the PDS suspension improved over the years and I could bolt on an '06 shock for a great upgrade on my '99. Is this true on the Husky as well? It appears I could use shocks off bikes up to '08. I passed up an '04 shock on e*bay because I don't want to get something that is not an upgrade. How about spring rates for the shock--stock is 5.0? The stocker seems light for me from just sitting on it.
Also I noted the CR and WR have different spring rates. Are they valved differently as well? This will be very helpful to know when shopping for used units.
I do know how to set the sag but did not check it before I tore the bike down. I'd like to get parts while the bike is torn down to save time on this build so I'll have to make an educated guess for now.
Thanks!
Jason
 
Nevermind on swapping wheels due to the axle size difference. If newer 45mm forks with the 25mm axle are worthwhile I could just have bushings made to make up the difference at the fork legs. :D
I found a little information through some more searching and it looks like .46 fork springs and a 5.4 shock spring should do the trick. Thoughts?
 
ive the 2009 125 wr running 50 marzocchi's and am 190lbs with no gear. I've fitted .45nm front spring and 5.5 rear spring and it works really good for me. i race and i'd say we are of similar ability.
 
Thanks for the reply, Spud. That's close to what I was thinking would work. I tore the forks down and one had almost no oil and the other was very low then I found a broken compression valve on one too. It's becoming very clear that this bike was just not maintained. So now I need to find some forks or at least one unless I can find a good valve to replace the broken one. Nobody really replied about the improvements over the years but I would think they improved from year to year.
 
Thanks Vinduro. I know many will use different setups based on personal preference and I think I recall from some of your posts that you actually went softer on your fork springs and stiffer on the shock to get it where you liked it. It looks like I'll have some experimenting to do once I get everything freshened up.
 
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