• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 ktm 150 vs husky 144 in mx form

mnnthbx said:
Power is very similar for sure. Each person's story will differ, as whoever's bike they've ridden has different jetting, PV setting, etc., than all the others ridden by other folks. To say there's much output difference between either bike tuned right is just wrong.

How is a KTM harder to work on? I'm on a Husky now, and think my KTM was easier to wrench if simply because the PV is much easier to get to....

I prefer the Husky because it's different, not better or worse.....
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Do a top end replacement on both. Then write back. And, as for power, see my FIRST post in this thread which basically says exactly what you say. The power is similar for sure... until you get to WOT. I stand by my drag race statement and would gladly back it up with a drag race or two or three for anyone who would like to meet at Carolina Adventure World drag track with their "manly" 150 SX's. My whole purpose for prolonging this stupid discussion was to point out the absurd, name-dropping, claims of another poster who felt it necessary to one-up me with words like "vet expert buddies" and "a very fast 40+ expert who finished top 10 at Lorettas a couple of years ago".... Big fuc&in' whoop. I have real-world track experience on both bikes (pre-2012), and the results are obvious. Oh, and then there's the small detail about the woods versions on the dyno... But hey... WTF? Who am I to claim any expertise on the "vet experts who say wow". I'm just an average grass roots MX Dad with years of experience racing both bikes at unsanctioned and sanctioned tracks.... with too many plaques to fit on my son's wall... largely due to Husqvarna 150's. My 150 KTM's were both wonderful.... till they exploded... both mid season.

But hey... again... WTF do I know?
 
krieg said:
I'm happy for you. But I forgot to tell you that I invited my close personal friends James Stewart and Chad Reed to compare my KTM and Husky. Both of them said "WOW" about the Husky. Then Bubba crashed on the KTM. Then Chad Reed said "holy shit I wish I could race this CR 150 in the 450 class"! Then Bubba crashed again on the KTM. Just to make sure Chad and Bubba weren't pulling my leg, I invited my 'ole bud Ryan Villopoto to test drive both bikes. Ryan offered me 10 grand for my CR. Obviously, I had to turn him down.

Take a look at the other post showing the dyno curves of the woods versions. http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/125-144-165-dyno-comparison.29610/
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Thanks!
 
Looks like you think I singles you out. I didn't. I was making a blanket factual statement. I love Husky's and KTMs and have no angle. All I know from my own experience, is they are both great. How they drag race I don't know. I do buy dirtbikes for races, but not drag races....
 
mnnthbx said:
Looks like you think I singles you out. I didn't. I was making a blanket factual statement. I love Husky's and KTMs and have no angle. All I know from my own experience, is they are both great. How they drag race I don't know. I do buy dirtbikes for races, but not drag races....
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Welp then, if you want to win... The choice is obvious. Unless you choose to put a superhuman "pilot" in the "cockpit"... your choice is Husqvarna.
 
krieg said:
Welp then, if you want to win... The choice is obvious. Unless you choose to put a superhuman "pilot" in the "cockpit"... your choice is Husqvarna.
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Again, I just bought a new Husky because that's what I wanted, and I love it. That said, in all the racing I've done, the podiums are full of orange, not white....

I'm not, and never did say the KTM is better. I'm just not biased enough to say it's worse.
 
Don't normally chime in on the 2 stroke side but you guys are killing the mood lol. Here I am just trying to dream of a garage full of bikes (maybe someday). Everyone enjoys this bike versus that one. KTM and Husky both offer amazing bikes. I like reading different people's opinions even if they may have fallen from the sky. Just chill I feel like I'm on a Yamaha again lol

On a lighter note, I saw Ricky Carmichael riding a unicorn. Husky and KTM both suck ;)
 
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