• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1973 wr 125

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WJB

Husqvarna
C Class
Hello, I'm new to CH. I bought my first Husky recently and am in the process of getting it ready for some vintage MX racing. It's a 1973 wr125. I'll post pictures as soon as I learn how to do so. I bought it as a roller and the motor is apart in a box. I also got a bunch of other Husky parts with the deal, some 250 mag stuff and some later 125 cases, barrel, and head. I'm hoping everyone who has any experience with these early 125s will help answer questions. I don't really know the market for these early parts and am hoping to sell them to help pay for the restoration of my bike. I have two tanks that are both steel and thought it would be better to have a little later aluminum one to make it lighter. Before I spend a boatload of money on an aluminum tank are the mounts the same on a 1975 - 1976 aluminum tank as my 1973? Also I heard that a later 250 mag swingarm is an upgrade in place of the stock 73 swingarm. Thank you in advance, Jay
 
Hello again, I want to thank everyone for the help and advice they've given to me on my post. Two months and nothing, I guess no one knows anything about early Husqvarna 125s.
 
you sometimes find that if your initial post is missed first up, you have no responses. or your right and no one knows any thing about your 125
 
I seldom look at this Forum heading, so this is the first I've seen your post...

I've raced a 74 125 WR since...well 1974...still race it today in AHRMA NA XC
1. I'm pretty sure the mounts for a 75/76 Alloy tank will match up to your 125. I've used 2 Hi Point Alloy tanks on my 125 and swap them to my 75 Mag 250 with no problem. If you have other work to do on that bike...I'd suggest holding off on the $ for the Alloy tank...makr that your LAST purchase.
2. WAY back in the day (late 70's) I fit a GP frame (my memory is it was a 76) needle bearing swing arm to my MK frame 125. Lengthened the wheelbase, used longer Curnutts for longer travel. If I recall, I think I had to trim a mm or 2 from each side of the frame to fit the arm into the frame. Still in place today.
I'm not sure about the Mag 250 s/a.
Good luck with the bike!
 
Richard, does the '76 swingarm make your '74 bike illegal for AHRMA classic-class racing? I'm asking because I have a couple of those '76 arms.
 
The combination of that swing arm and the long travel Curnutts definatley result in > 4" of wheel axle travel, which is what AHRMA Vintage rules allow.
So I've had to fit rubber bumpers onto the Curnutts to reduce the travel when I ride an AHRMA Vintage event...no doubt reducing the benefit of fitting that swing arm.
Even a stock 75 Mag 250 (like-design eligible for Vintage) with stock 12" Girlings needs some rubber bumpers to bring the axle travel down to 4".

As mentioned above...I did the mods back in the day...when it was still a modern bike!
 
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