• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

250-500cc 09 WR250 fuel mileage

lankydoug

lankydoug

Husqvarna
Pro Class
This topic has come up in several threads so I thought I would put some numbers to my experience and see how it compares to everyone else's.

I rode a tank down to reserve and then drained the remaining fuel into a measuring cup to see how much fuel was left after switched to reserve. I had 1 3/4 quarts of fuel left once I hit reserve (that's with the bike level) if I was to keep tipping the bike to the left I'm sure I could have gone further before reserve.

I was riding on my property which consists of 80% tight singletrack with logs roots rocks and creek banks. It is more suited to trials riding and I'm almost always in 1st gear. I have a couple of small grass track type openings where I may get in 4th for a split second before having to get on the brakes but I spend less than 20% of my time in that area. (Sometimes I wonder if I would have been better served buying a trials bike.) I realize my fuel mileage won't be as good as others simply because I'm almost always in 1st gear and that's not economical. An A class rider would probably be in 2nd instead of 1st and since I've geared down to 13:52 I have used 2nd more than I used too.

So here are my numbers;

I get approximately 42 miles before I hit reserve.
A stock tank holds 2.2 gallons
I should get about 9 more miles after switching to reserve.

If I rode in a more open area I believe I would get much farther on a tank but would like to hear what other have experienced.
 
lankydoug said:
This topic has come up in several threads so I thought I would put some numbers to my experience and see how it compares to everyone else's.

I rode a tank down to reserve and then drained the remaining fuel into a measuring cup to see how much fuel was left after switched to reserve. I had 1 3/4 quarts of fuel left once I hit reserve (that's with the bike level) if I was to keep tipping the bike to the left I'm sure I could have gone further before reserve.

I was riding on my property which consists of 80% tight singletrack with logs roots rocks and creek banks. It is more suited to trials riding and I'm almost always in 1st gear. I have a couple of small grass track type openings where I may get in 4th for a split second before having to get on the brakes but I spend less than 20% of my time in that area. (Sometimes I wonder if I would have been better served buying a trials bike.) I realize my fuel mileage won't be as good as others simply because I'm almost always in 1st gear and that's not economical. An A class rider would probably be in 2nd instead of 1st and since I've geared down to 13:52 I have used 2nd more than I used too.

So here are my numbers;

I get approximately 42 miles before I hit reserve.
A stock tank holds 2.2 gallons
I should get about 9 more miles after switching to reserve.

If I rode in a more open area I believe I would get much farther on a tank but would like to hear what other have experienced.
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Where are you from in Missouri?
 
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