old Huskys

I remember a friend had an old Husky 125 that he had mounted the shocks forward. Man that bike had incredible torque!
It could pull a wheelie with a rider on the back (me) at less than 4000 rpm.
Later I bought a '77 Husky 125 that had 7 inches travel. It was OK in the bumps but not as good as I wanted so I took the fork
apart and took the aluminum damper rod to a machine shop and had them add 2" to it. Really worked well but eventually wore out
the sliders.
The bike really shined and earned its "GP" (CR125 GP) on fast mx tracks. The faster you went the better it handled! Still had the characteristic Husky defect of not really liking to turn but rather railing burms.
At the height of my very short mx career (ha!) I took it to race at that track south of Dallas / Ft Worth. Super incredible track
laid out across rolling hills and creeks. A wet dream of a mx track. Nationals were run there also. Later I watched Roger D
ride like the wind in a Trans AMA race. Man he was smooth!
Anyway I had the gearbox apart and back together before the race (don't remember why) and I'd put it back together
with some dohicky one notch off. Before practice I dragged raced an RM and won but it wouldn't shift back down from 6th
gear. Arggh! Didn't even get to practice on my dream track. Oh well.
Anyway I miss that bike. It was really built well at a time when all the jap bikes had bolts made out of butter and only had top end power. (Huskys had some low end and a decent mid range)
Anyone else with fond memories of Huskys out there?

if you put Boyesen reed valves on the '79 you should get some awesome low end power out of it. Stock Husky reeds
were mostly for top end power.
yeah, WR is the ID for that old 125 of my friend. Good strong bikes. Plan on any suspension mods for the 250? The
swingarm is strong enough to forward mount the shock without any risk of it breaking if you reinforce the swingarm
about 4 inches before and behind where the shock mounts to it.
Too cool! 2 Huskys. Send a picture if you can.

he must of had a weird riding style to have his leg on the spark plug wire!
that was probably a good moment compared to incidents he had later on the Bultaco since they wouldn't turn
unless you put them into a powerslide. (My first and last ride on one was a disaster as I couldn't get it to turn
and ran into some construction dirt mounds. Endoed big time!)

125 Maico! Tell me more. Never seen one but read a write-up on one once. A dream bike at the time.

Pentons, well built except for the crappy Sachs transmission. My first bike was a 125 Penton. Drove me batty
with misshifts but it handled really well.

You can still get parts for the old WR's? How much rear wheel travel do you have?