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[QUOTE="the Eel, post: 166472, member: 19952"]
I just got the little Husky WR 125 a few weeks ago and I'm just now starting to get the hang of it - or at least I think I am.  I'm coming off an XR 250R and I thought I'd share my observations.  Hopefully the knowledgeable folks can give me some pointers ...

TURNING - I can finally turn at speed !  It seems to involve weighting the outside peg and leaning forward and in - the back wheel slides around and the darn thing actually turns !!  It's so different from my old XR.  I think I was trying to ride it like the XR and I just could not turn.  The 2-stroke seems to be turn by working those pegs ...

WHOOPS - after fiddling around for several weekends with the suspension I have a setting that's fairly comfortable.  Seems the wwhoops are a lot easier if I concentrate on keeping the front end up ... leaning back a bit ... pulling back on the bars and gassing on the whoop faces.  Before I was going in flat and got spit off a few times.         :(

UPHILLS - this is still tough if there's a short run up - I massacre the clutch and get up, but there is definitely room for improvement.  Also, the thing started to overheat today on a long, rocky, switchbacked uphill.  That's the first time I've ever experienced that ... the XR never boiled over.

Any tips on how to keep it from overheating ? Uphill technique ?  Whoops ?  Anything else ?
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