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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Nice shot Lucien... don't get that thing dirty... only ride in the snow....T
Unfinished project, -79 CR125 with few things to sort out...
front sprocket,chain, rear brake,did they drop the s/arm mounted side stand in 79 ?..dont think they did.... s/arm looks funny shape and its got the quick drop Wr rear axle with the welded bar.re-route the clutch cable, get the rest of the gator round the top of the air box cover ..would look better with modern oval ally silencer i think , maybe match the rims up.... but a nice sold project bike.
Yes the swingarm is a mystery one? Nice you noticedThe seller said it is a longer racing swingarm from that period?? I have the original swingarm which is shorter and straight and has a side stand. This swingarm which is mounted doesn`t have a front chain tensioner mounting at all?? It is a banana shaped and has welded reinforcements under the main bars. If I`m not selling this I´m thinking of fitting 250 engine in it. But you don`t see many Husky tiddlers any more....were they so crappy at the seventies?
Y What a huge upgrade from the 1972 Ossa Pioneer I had before that.
You are correct although the difference wasn't all that much. I had a 75Honda cr125 and my dad had a 74WR 125. I'd get him on the jump but by 5th he was gaining on me. WE modded the Husky a little with carb and filter.You have to remember that in 73 the Honda Elsinore showed up along with the Yamaha YZ. By 74 the Euro bikes were obsolete. Penton,DKW,Puch and Husky were no match for the Asian invasion. In Desert and Enduro racing they were O.K. but even then the 125 husky was a dog. I know-I was there.