OK its winter life sucks. what to do...buy a $750.00 husky and ride it...

OK I didnt want to mess up my pretty new husky so I'm saving this old dog! Burned around for a half hour today and had a blast! Needs $300 in maintenance done asap but it is a fbf want a be with a fbf cylinder and pro circuit exhaust! But what do you get for a seven hour round trip drive and 750 bucks. Do you just screw short screws in the knobs for traction on frozen ground????of course like everyone the guy was certain he had a true fbf bike and claimed the original owner ordered it with the blue triple clamps.. . I had and fbf bike and it had black forks and black coated lowers.... Having fun but need traction! Main jet for 15 degrees? Didn't blow up yet at least and has a new top end and stator and 130 psi...PS sold the weekend Suzuki no Japanese bikes allowed and it may be chapter three but I have many fond memories of chapter one and two...

Nice! Huntersville at 1pm tomorrow?

Nice looking bike for cheap good effort. Looks like a 125.. Bags of fun and light.

On my WR450f the screws worked just fine. The screws in the rear tire would wear down, but they stayed in the tire. On my Husky FC250, the screws would all get ripped out of the rear tire. They only would last 2 rides.

Maybe the 125 would be ok with screws?

I need to get a few parts and screws for tires..posibbly by next weekend!!

Thanks. I'm in cheap mode lol. Gonna just grab some similar looking screws and put them in!! Raise the needle and throw in a bigger main jet.... Without studs and frozen ground......fun but not fun!!

I ended up using ice screws in the front tire and a trelleborg rear. The Trelleborg is a full 3 lbs heavier than the mx51 that came stock on my fc250. The heavy tire makes it feel like I have a flywheel weight, which I don't like, but the trade off is that the rear tire seems pretty much indestructible.

There is a guy in Isanti selling some new (old stock) trelleborg rear tires for $200 each. I paid him (paypal) and drove there to get it. If you're interested in doing that, i'll pm you his number.

It was 80 degrees here in beautiful so calif today Tomorrow it should be the same headed up to do a little KOM pre riding
what could be better

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33TFnnBnlIo

By an IRC M5B and put 1" Cold Cutters in them and thank me later. Angle the front tires screws a bit.

Oh John.... You'll never know the fun of riding in really cold weather. I wouldn't trade my weather for a second, to live in the Republik of California.... Good luck at KOM!

Not sure. But when you work outside in the cold riding in the cold does not sound fun!!!

Fletch,
I work outside all day in the cold too. There are days when it's hard to get out, but when you do you're glad you did! That old Husky is sweet, but you might as well start riding that TC and getting used to it for the race season. Get it dialed now and you'll save a lot of @$$ ache later.

I'm game if you ever want a riding partner. It's a 2 hour drive, so I need a 3 hr notice.

I may not get much time in this winter but plan on riding EVERY weekend If I can do so without injury this entire summer! Let it snow I'll PM you. Thanks.

Sounds good.

I've been trying to go to Huntersville every other weekend.