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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

my cr125 is still too damn tall.....should I throw in the towel?(short guy problems)

Put an Autoclutch on it and have it lowered 1 inch thats about the cheapest way out I'm 5'6 and its still tall for me but it's much better than stock,a 167 kit doesn't hurt it either.
Bill
 
The damn crank seals are bad and has play in the crank bearings.

So I am going to be parting the bike out shortly.
 
I very well could be wrong on that. :excuseme: I based this off that some bikes with 13 plus inches of rear need more sag and read reports of percentages. Seems when shortening you would want to go with stiffer springs and less sag. Wild ass guess.
 
Give jay a call at hall s. I have had one or so bikes lowered the newer 125s are taller. I'm 50 so I have shrank I'm like 5 foot 6,and 3/4. I have a buddy with and auto clutch on a small bore and it works for him.. Parting the bike out may not be great and if you were close to me I would probably be interested.... The 11 and prior Gasser's sit low and they also have a cheap lowering link available. The older gassers can be had reasonable
 
Just rode my 250xc for the first time after lowering it 1 1/2 inches. Amazing feeling being able to put my feet down in technical terrain. Ground clearance is definitely an issue now though. Still, I'd say it's worth it.
 
pt was that from the kit I have seen for the KTM's? Or did a shop do the lowering? Feels the same, just lower?
 
A local shop did it. Internal spacers as well as a revalve. I have to admit I'm not very good at judging suspension, but the bike does feel more "planted" thru the rocky stuff. Stock the bike was pobably set up more for the track than the trail. Now, I don't think I could take it to the track, but the majority of my riding is on the trails........ It's tough trying to have one bike do it all-I feel like I had to bias it towards what I do most.
 
huskylove said:
So I bought this thing last year, and completely went through the bike. Got it together and every ride on uphill off camber turns I drop the thing and break all the levers and shifter/brake pedal. I still drop the thing on every uphill turn. I am 5' 6" tall with a short inseam.
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I'll admit I did not read 3 pages here and will start at the entry point above ....

Uphill off-camber turns are not ~easy for many. To me, about any off-camber turn has a higher degree of difficulty than flat or bermed turns ...

I've had issues with my bike riding through the yrs also and know first hand, dabbing is a necessary part of riding I think... I try to look ahead and dab as needed but it is not my savior ..its the last ditch effort to save what I just botched. Correct technique, including your speed, is the starting point (for me) for not falling over ... So, I've decided to learn how to actually ride a dirt bike ~correctly before it's too late ... With that in mind, you might wanna consider riding the bike with better technique to reduce the number of fall-overs you keep doing and plan your dabbing to some degree.

I'll add, if I see a place above my skill level, I'll walk the bike around it somehow. Good luck with your riding and bike ... More seat time will make all of us better riders ...
 
Sag relative to lowering. I believe the rear suspension is some what progressive via the lower linkage and the angles in which they progress through as the suspension goes through its stroke (lever laws). So I would think, that the rear suspension is the softest toward the upper stroke (Similar to a progressive shock spring i used on a pds shock years back). If this thinking is correct you would set your sag to be a little less than what it was prior to lowering (not much but probably a smidgen). Thinking about this further, i don't think there is a single answer unless the method of lowering is fully understood. We just recently had a new 2015 Yami WR250 lowered. Seems to work great. I'm not sure what was done on the back, but I believe the front was lowered by locally heating two or three spring coils wraps, then compressing the spring in a jig which flattened out the heated coils. I doubt they remained completely flat after releasing the force. I'm guessing about 1.5" was removed which was then likely filled with a machined spacer. In the end this results in a spring with a slightly overall higher spring rate due to essentially removing two coil wraps from the spring. Bike is great and the short legged fellow loves it.
 
ray_ray said:
I'll admit I did not read 3 pages here and will start at the entry point above ....

Uphill off-camber turns are not ~easy for many. To me, about any off-camber turn has a higher degree of difficulty than flat or bermed turns ...

I've had issues with my bike riding through the yrs also and know first hand, dabbing is a necessary part of riding I think... I try to look ahead and dab as needed but it is not my savior ..its the last ditch effort to save what I just botched. Correct technique, including your speed, is the starting point (for me) for not falling over ... So, I've decided to learn how to actually ride a dirt bike ~correctly before it's too late ... With that in mind, you might wanna consider riding the bike with better technique to reduce the number of fall-overs you keep doing and plan your dabbing to some degree.

I'll add, if I see a place above my skill level, I'll walk the bike around it somehow. Good luck with your riding and bike ... More seat time will make all of us better riders ...
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hes decided to just part the bike out now that its needs the engine worked on
 
I had the bike on craigslist forever at 1000$ bucks and 0 interest. i will never buy a husky again due to the $0 resale of them.
 
huskylove said:
I had the bike on craigslist forever at 1000$ bucks and 0 interest. i will never buy a husky again due to the $0 resale of them.
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Not true, try ebay or a mx site.
Sorry for your unluck but it could of been the same with any second hand machine bought.
 
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