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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
1987 Husqvarna 250 Enduro Vs KTM 250 Cycle World Road Test
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Husqvarna
HardCoreHusky
Husqvarna
AA Class
justintendo
klotz super techniplate junkie
nice review! pretty harsh on the husky but not having a powervalve is going to do that.
photoguy_43420
Husqvarna
AA Class
I really like my 87 250 WR never rode a 87 KTM. I think the husky is kind of pipey I do have a Dyno Port pipe on it. Compared to the 430s it just seems pipey to me but really fun to ride.
Norman Foley
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Best comparison between old 250 and 430, is a new 125 and 250, with power valves. My '82 and '86 250WR's seem very pipey now, like a newer 125. More torque down low than a 125, but kind of flat and then look out when it hits! Riding a friend's '82 430XC or remembering my '87 430WR, super smooth power and then a top end rush.... more like my modern PV equpped TE250.
Actually, it was riding my '82 250WR a lot again, about 10 years ago, that convinced me I should try a modern 125!
justintendo
klotz super techniplate junkie
mines at 215. if it really does have 160, something is wrong...my earlier 250s would have 160-165 with fresh piston...87-88 250 are much higher
Drew Smith
Husqvarna
AA Class
I rode RUWFO's 87 WR-250 and really liked the motor it was a low hours bike and the engine was untouched the power seemed real smooth the bike steered real good on tight single track and had real good front wheel bite I liked the bike allot.
I raced an 88 KTM 250 in 88 and it had early WP U.D. forks (different internals than the 87 WP fork) never parked the bike without removing the suspension, it about killed me. I'm guessing the 87 KTM was allot better bike.
I raced an 88 KTM 250 in 88 and it had early WP U.D. forks (different internals than the 87 WP fork) never parked the bike without removing the suspension, it about killed me. I'm guessing the 87 KTM was allot better bike.