• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 09' wr144 take 2

Norman Foley;90970 said:
I got to ride a Yamaha RZV500 with the powervalves wired open.... Saw God and soiled myself!:busted:
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Your old WR is now a 144 and running great.

I plan to come to Speedsville and ride it.


Rich
 
wallybean;90958 said:
Joe,

If you wanted to be competetive on an mx track in the 70's and early 80's on a 125 that was what you rode. :thumbsup: No power valves and a light switch for a power band. :lol: I loved it when I was in my teens and weighed maybe 100 lbs. and 130 dripping wet when I quit at 18.

Walt
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Yes Walt.....I remeber..........are there any "youngin's" even on this site?
Those were the days man. I haven't heard anyone say or use "WFO" in years!

Joe
still dreaming of the 130 pounds soaking wet days!
 
The orange spring by itself is great, the power is very close to perfect.
IMO, this a required mod or any wr125.

It's still a bit slow the rev, but a lot less than with the inner blue spring. Much more predictable hit.

I'm still contemplating going to the cr ingnition... but worried it will cancel some of the benefits like the great traction the bike has right now.

Today I made up a hill, very few have made over the years.It's not very impressive when you first see it. Most say they can make it up...not! Tons of loose rock and roots kill your momentum.
I have tried several times before and never could get up more than half way. This little bike is now like riding a mountain goat without the smell or the attitude. :thumbsup:
 
Just did the 1/8'' advance timing mod. Bike idles better and it makes a difference on the bottom. It does feel like some top end is lost, but I only did some quick passes on a grass field. Not typical woods riding.

First impression is this is a good setup with no money down. :thumbsup:
thx Martin.
 
I also run mine advanced about 2 degrees. This equates to moving the coils about 2 mm on the backing plate. Helps the bottom end response.

Walt
 
Next mod on the way is shaving some weight off the stock flywheel. I should have this done by next week. :applause:

It's getting pretty darn good...
 
I finally got to ride the 144 with the ''shaved'' stock flywheel. So far its worth the hassle. It does rev quicker...it may be the perfect in between the cr and wr for off-road.

I will get a whole weekend worth of riding and post final the results.
 
I sent the flywheel to a machine shop and they shaved some off the outside. They can't take too much off without the cassing getting too weak.

No pics, I don't own the bike anymore. But If I where to start this project again. I would start with a CR150, then do just the powervalve springs and minimal lights to run enduros.

EG kit made the bike very unreliable. DNF'ed with this bike like no other bike I have owned in the past. When it ran it was great in the rough stuff.

Converted to 4T's, I think I found what is my prefered starting point...a 450.
 
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