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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

I Rode the bike (type) so many of you talk about.

robertaccio

robertaccio

Husqvarna
Pro Class
A 2013 KTM200XC-(now W) Linkage chassis machine (198cc). Home engineered with all OEM Kato stuff bought and sold on ebay for a total cost of ZERO!!! except for time of course.
Friend is an engineer and did a great job of building up his perfect lightweight trail killing enduro weapon.
Started life as 2013 150XC (linkage chassis). the motor has high comp head on a 200 exc barrel with 200 exc spec heavy flywheel ignition, he regeared the trans I think to 200 exc spec (I think thats where hes at). ultra light, with a torque and smooth power feel that seems impossible from a wee 2T!
Brad, Kitted together a well thought out machine that performs exceptionally.
 
That sounds like a cool bike. I had a 98 200. Thought the motor was great. Handled like crap though but it was beat and I'm 230 pounds so it really wasn't fair to the bike lol. I like all these bikes like the 200 or a husky 165. There's seems to be enough motor to help out a crappy rider like myself but not enough to run away either. I'm sure they'd make a better rider out of most anyone, not to mention they're low maintenance
 
Ktm 200 is a very nice bike! Sounds like your friend made one really his "own". If WR165 is really like a KTM 200 I may just have to get the CR125 I have been waiting on.
 
Micfasto said:
If WR165 is really like a KTM 200 I may just have to get the CR125 I have been waiting on.
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I have ridden many KTM200's and 165s. Depending on the model (which I am always confused about with KTM) and slower versions of the KTM 200 are similar to the husky 165 but the faster KTM 200 versions have a good bit more power than the 165. That said I personally greatly prefer the handling and feel of the husky.
 
My wife rides an 07 ktm 200 xc. Epoxied ports, flywheel weight, lowered suspension. Bike is super mild when you want it or snappy fast. Feels small and uneasy to me. I do not like riding it. Both the 250 exc and my wr 250 are easier to ride IMHO
 
The husky chassis (09 up 125) just seems to handle better to me. I have rode some KTM 200's that felt pretty fast. But that Husky chassis at speed brings home the bacon. It is predictable and a weapon you can trust at high speed! Dirtdame said it well. And come on Coffee I think it's about time my punishment ended. I sent a private message to a whiner that attacked me in public. I resisted being a A hole and sent the message in private. I stand by what I said and he had it coming. It would be nice to be able to respond. And with almost 300 likes I can't be all that bad.....LOL.........................OK if you reinstate things the way they were I will suspend my running Huskybergs obver for awhile.................LOL:popcorn:
 
Predictable that is the word. Wife's 200 at speed never feels predictable. It's fast it could easily keep up with our 2000 ktm 250 exc but handling is nowhere near the same.
 
My favorite bike ever engine wise was my 03 200SX, but it didn't handle very well. And the suspension was only adequate. That engine on a newer 150SX chassis would be awesome.
 
thanks for the quick report... i was just reading about hybrid 150 / 200s a few weeks ago. the only real mod needed is the head stay, correct? mostly a bolt-in operation with earlier 200 lump and later 150 chassis. i'd love to try one out!
 
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