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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?
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?