• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 WB165 Big Thumbs Up

hussy144 said:
Have you checked out LTR in Washington, I sent my forks down to Les because i had the same problem.Now my front tire follows the terrain like its magnetized,and if you do have any questions Les is one of the most pleasant person you can talk with, plus you wont spend nearly as much or for that expensive word "works".
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Is Les back at the job? I hope so as that would mean he is doing well.
 
wallybean said:
Is Les back at the job? I hope so as that would mean he is doing well.
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I don't know if he's back to work quite yet. A guy on my minute last weekend lives near Les and said he's looking good all things considered, but didn't say if LTR was back open.
 
hussy144 said:
Have you checked out LTR in Washington, I sent my forks down to Les because i had the same problem.Now my front tire follows the terrain like its magnetized,and if you do have any questions Les is one of the most pleasant person you can talk with, plus you wont spend nearly as much or for that expensive word "works".
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I actually clicked his banner ad this morning to check if he was back at work, and he is. His prices sure look a lot easier to swallow...
 
Second good ride today, we did a 5 hour tour of duty at McNutt. This bike is so awesome, I LOVE it now. It lugs and chugs, rips when you need it. I had a drag race up to about 4th gear with my buddy and his KX250 on the gravel road to the trail head, he couldn't gain an inch on the 165. We are equal caliber riders, he weighs a bit more, but was blown away that he couldn't pull on me at all.

Broke my front fender clean off....time for the RMZ fender conversion. ;)
 
Poopy said:
Second good ride today, we did a 5 hour tour of duty at McNutt. This bike is so awesome, I LOVE it now. It lugs and chugs, rips when you need it. I had a drag race up to about 4th gear with my buddy and his KX250 on the gravel road to the trail head, he couldn't gain an inch on the 165. We are equal caliber riders, he weighs a bit more, but was blown away that he couldn't pull on me at all.

Broke my front fender clean off....time for the RMZ fender conversion. ;)
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I am planning a ride at mcnutt sometime, I'll keep my eyes open for another husky rider on the trails!:cheers:.
 
Poopy said:
Thanks Walt and Kelly!
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While I appreciate the thanks this is all Walt, I am just helping him facilitate the retail side of it as he does not have the means or time to make it happen. Well and i guess the sale side with the massive "I rode the prototype husky 200" thread. Thanks guys.
 
The "200" part had me pressing my computer keys very fast to get to the thread :D; excellent strategy Kelly! Walt JUST built the "200" that he could build while Husky BMW sits on the sidelines; bench warmers for Walt. Awesome kit :cheers:.
 
Never did get my '06 sorted out since making it a 144. Got tired of messing with it and parked it. Has the same issue of breaking up when hard on the gas with 2 different carbs, all kinds of jetting. Must be something else that I can't figure out.
 
Parh 474 said:
Never did get my '06 sorted out since making it a 144. Got tired of messing with it and parked it. Has the same issue of breaking up when hard on the gas with 2 different carbs, all kinds of jetting. Must be something else that I can't figure out.
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Check to make sure your coil is well grounded and the spark plug cap is good,. Sound electrical and these bikes can suffer from those two things.
 
Parh 474 said:
Never did get my '06 sorted out since making it a 144. Got tired of messing with it and parked it. Has the same issue of breaking up when hard on the gas with 2 different carbs, all kinds of jetting. Must be something else that I can't figure out.
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Did you by any chance change the power valve spring ???
I did a ride this sunday gone and suffered the self same systems, and this was not a one off a friends 125 I fitted a soft large spring and a short stiff inner spring and this also developed a bad case of breaking up trying to accelerate down a long muddy straight
I tried to jet the things to clear the problem but to no avail so last night I swapped the springs to a previouse set up that was fine in testing and all was fine and back to perfection again
Shame my gopro decided to pack up as I could of posted the missing on film
I have no idea why this may of happened (over to Walt ect) but my 144 was way worse than the 125. also when absolutly flat out it ran fine it was just under hard acceleration it was breaking up real bad
Worth a try as these things are brilliant when running strong

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It would be weird to develop ignition problems by just changing the top end and pipe, but weirder things have happened.

I've tried a couple different power valve spring set-ups w/o big changes. Although to be honest, I'm relying on reports from my 15 yr old kid. If you get the power valve mechanism a tooth out, what happens?
 
wallybean said:
As an aside for you guys to think about. I am trying to put together a deal to get another pipe put together for the 165. The FMF fatty is ideal for a guy like me that likes to spend 90% of his time riding below the power valves flowing with torque and making time by keeping momentum with occasional bursts into the go fast zone. But there are a number of other riders that would like to have the option to make haste quickly with more upper mid and never ending top end. We have found a pipe that delivers that. It is no longer made but makes huge mid and never ending ripping top. If the stars align we should be able to get it copied and available. I still think the Fatty is the pipe of choice for the majority but for that contingent that makes haste much quicker than average we will have a pipe to match those needs. I can say in all seriousness it makes the bike a handful everywhere above ~5500 rpm to about 12000 rpm. Too much for me but I am old, fat, and slow. JFYI
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Pick my 125 up sunday and am looking at this kit ive spoken briEfly with kelly about prices but not this exhaust. I like the over run on the 125, so this new exhaust your talking about does this fit the standard muffler and will you sell this exhaust with the new kit?
 
spud1968 said:
Pick my 125 up sunday and am looking at this kit ive spoken briEfly with kelly about prices but not this exhaust. I like the over run on the 125, so this new exhaust your talking about does this fit the standard muffler and will you sell this exhaust with the new kit?
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I am not having any real luck getting the top end pipe I like copied. So far the least cost I have been quoted is $600 so I am a bit disapointed. There are a couple of pipes that I can get for you and modify for more top end oriented riders. The cost is going to be more because my initial cost is going to be higher.
 
The PC pipe Blake is running is much like stock and revs well. Spud, you might just find a KTM 200 ProCircuit pipe and have someone local to you mod it to fit. Just needs to be an OK welder and have a saw. Not a huge deal. IMHO the FMF pipe is brilliant power wise and I dont need anything else. I will be running a Doma KTM 200 pipe but just cuz i happened to snag one of eBay for cheap and i love every Dome pipe i have tried.
 
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