• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 2012 125

g_off said:
Ended up going with the WR, and after a couple of short ride I'm very impressed. The bike handles and turns awsome, and the suspension feels really good right out of the box. In fact the shock is about perfect and the fork just a tad harsh in the low speed stuff (whoops, rollers). Heck, who knows if I'm even in the ball park on spring rate (190#). Even in the 125 configuration the bike rips when on the pipe. Traction was optimum for AZ, but the bike was wheelieing out of corners and I was sticking to the rear fender of my buddy's 450 like glue.

But alas, like everyone else, no bottom or mid to speak of...In the flat twisties I could compensate by make sure to always downshift in corners and keeping a finger on the clutch at all times. Where it became a problem was in the technical climbs. I had to tackle these in first gear and on the pipe; not an easy or fast way to get up loose rocky singletrack hills.

Looks like I will be ordering the RM needle, spring kit, and putting in the 144 top end as soon as I get it. I was hoping to ride it in the 125 configuration for awhile. Like I said it has plenty of power on top...
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I use to race a 2008 CR 125 it has a completly stock motor as it was in the crate when I picked it up from my local dealer.Never have we had to change the stock jets ,or adjust the power values The bike runs perfect and has tons of low end then pulls all the way to the top.do not give up on your 125 something must be wrong.I race Dist 37 and the Nationals Hare and Hounds on it.Two years ago I won a National #1 plate in the 50a against the open class so the bike can run.Now my son races it and last month finished 5th overall out of 300 and 1st 125 at Dist 37 Jackrabbits Race.
Then at Desert M/C National Dist 37 he was running top 20 overall and had a good get off.But still got going again and finished 2nd in the 0 to 200 A class 40th overall at a National. The bike has been raced for 4 full years in Dist 37 and the Nationals and just got rebuilt for the first time by George at Uptite where george used the same original clutch when he put it back together.
Now we have Wally,George and a bunch of people saying 165 kit we might just try one. As for me I race CR 300 now but still play around on the 125

Our next project since this 125 is getting old is a new 2012 CR 125 We will built a custom 3 gall aluin tank,then hopefully a set of the new Red zokes up front and a
Olhien TTx rear shock
 
Thanks for the encouragement. As an update, I did get the RM 62 needle, spring kit (stock/silver), and put in the 144 kit. Now the bike is everything I hoped it would be. The only thing I have left to do is put in the 5.0 slide (today). I raced the first D37 enduro, and decided to put in the 144 kit after having to take three runs at one particular very loose and steep hill on the A loop. It litterally cost me a top 15 O/A finish and the win in the A Sen. Lwt. class. Ended up 32 O/A and 2nd on tiebreakers.

Now on to the suspension....
 
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