• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 First ride 09 WR 125

cb250txc

cb250txc

Husqvarna
AA Class
Finally got to try out the bike today. I must say it was a blast. totally different then my TXC. The bike is so light and handles great. I just need to learn to ride the light two stroke vs the heavy four stroke. I do want to try a 12 tooth front sprocket as we ride some very slow technical trails.
 
I might suggest that you don't go to a 12 as this places lots of wear on pad on swingarm and go to a 51 or 52 on rear. Had several Husky 125's recently and also ride on tight stuff like you mention........South Jersy Pines for example.
Just my 2 cents
Joe
 
12T Sprocket

I have been running 12:50 for tight woods for over a year on my 08 and have never worn through the swing arm pad. I run an Ironman rear sprocket and they last forever so I don't want to have to change the rear all the time. The front sprocket is easier to change and cheaper than the rear. And when I want to ride open HS courses I just switch to a 13T front, works great for me.

I have heard it puts more wear on the chain and sprocket but I don't think it wears any quicker than a 13T front.
 
I'm running a 12 on my 125 and have had no issues with the chain slider in the swingarm. With a 125 running the same chain as a 510 i think you'll be OK with th chain too.
 
I ran 12-50 when I got my bike simply because it was a lot cheaper to buy a new countershaft sprocket then a new chain and rear sprocket. This gearing worked well when I tried a tall trials tire, or in the summer when I could climb really steep stuff with no wheel spin. But most of the time it was not ideal.

Once I had to replace everything I went 13-52. I like this gearing more.
 
My dealer has a 125 he is riding also so maybe I will try to convince him the go with the 52 rear and then we can compare them. Thanks for the suggestions.
 
YES

It all depends on your riding preference, and skill level. Feel free to experiment and let us know what you find. But for tighter, enduro races I would find it hard not to go with the 12:50 setup.....

The only way I run 13:50 is for open HS type courses in Illinois.

Even at the Cherokee Enduro in GA, I chased down a Husky WR 300 in the open stuff.
 
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