• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 1997 RM125, anyone ever have one?

I'll attempt to get this back on track;

Gee whizz fellas, is it true that the RMs were bad about getting head shake at high speed? If so maybe it's a trade off for the short light nimble stature.
 
lankydoug said:
I'll attempt to get this back on track;

Gee whizz fellas, is it true that the RMs were bad about getting head shake at high speed? If so maybe it's a trade off for the short light nimble stature.
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I have a good buddy that had a 1997 RM250. I spoke to him about this bike and he said "good luck, those things are crazy unstable" But he went on to say it would turn under anything on the MX track. That was a 250 not a 125 though. My findings with this bike is yes, very quick steering, takes the inside line crazy good. It does not seem unstable, quick and instantaneous but never scared me. Is a little more work to keep on track than my husky but turns far quicker. That said this bike seems stiff in front and soft in the rear with a shock spring that could be a few rates higher. The sacked out shock might be helping to make it feel stable. I might mangle a used steering damper on this at some point, i think it would really make this bike handle nice and feel more relaxed at speed. Also this is on tight SLICK wet clay / frozen ground / snow. So the speeds were low. It is a good bike, motor runs real good and is pretty fast, handle sharp, feels uber light, is low. Pegs feel to narrow, shifter seems to high, suspension really needs to be done (which would cost more than the bike :>). Going to be a great loaner bike. Maybe one of you guys will get to ride it one day :p
 
i had rm's and rmx's. they are woods bikes and being a whippy midget they suit me to a T. they aint open bikes (ever see one win a desert race???) said it before here, best turners ever.

they only get wonky when ya chop it in 5th on choppy stuff running a wee bit too much reb damp in the fork and a fast shock with 95mm sag. speed the reb up 2 on the fork set the sag @ 98-101mm live with a tinsy bit more deflection and letter rip.

if i didnt have porky i'd have an RM. and i can ride whatever i want at work. suzuki stuff is the shizzle. dont take my word ask the Javelin, Hatch, etc....
 
oh- yeh...in case ya think i aint sincere bout "S"?

hada few of the local fast kids here sign this one back in the day, on their way up....

(XL was to cover the pythons...ya know...shirt's even made in USA! :lol: )


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Nice, I saw Hatch race a few times.

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CafeRM he he he
 
oh i totally agree super nice looking scoots.

cept they attract bees like honey. i swear stop and in 3 mins it was bee city around my bike. no one would park near me, i'd find empty honey bear things in my truck at the end of the ride, bug repellent things...it got to be old after a while and i think ive heard every bee joke there is. lol.
 
this bike seems stiff in front
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Stock spring for a 97 is .4. If it's anything like the later ones, they're way overdamped. I got mine to work with 2.5/3W oil in the fork, and no revalve.
 
jmetteer said:
You really, really need to post a close up shot of the metal mullisha grips... Classic!

Later,
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Funny my close vision is getting so bad I did not even notice until you pointed them out. Actually seem to work well :>) Also has a MM sticker on the fork protector. Yeah baby.

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