• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

  • 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 250WR one man's junk or now dualing banjo's

ruwfo

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Just got a 87 250WR, here's the story, some guy drops it off at a friends bike shop & wants to know what it will take to get it going again in 2013. The Sema ignition took a puke, so he tell's him
500 for a complete new one w coil etc. Doesn't want to pay that much to fix it, so my buddy pushes in the corner. I offer to buy it a few times, he calls the guy with no response a bunch of times. Fast forward a year , bike still there, I ask my buddy what's going on with it, he tries
calling him a couple more times , still no response, so he says take it.

Looks all original, needs a good cleaning, new ignition & who knows what else, but I can't beat the price.

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stay tuned Husky John
 
Your gonna love the power that 250 stroker motor makes, long winded motor . I would put mine up against anything, I just cant get over the smooth never ending power it makes. Keep us posted...
 
My friend raced a 1987 250WR, Felt school bus long in the woods, vibrated alot, BUT , it was a great bike!
Made in Sweden
Please fix/save that!
 
nice find...the stroker 250 has a great powerband. just about perfect in the woods. still has a great hit at the top tho. mine had the sem fail early in its life the infamous "misfire and run in reverse syndrome" but has lived on for years with a mini6 set at .75 btdc. starts super easy and does have a pretty smooth band...
nice svt contour too..i had a 92 taurus SHO for a few years..
 
nice find...the stroker 250 has a great powerband. just about perfect in the woods. still has a great hit at the top tho. mine had the sem fail early in its life the infamous "misfire and run in reverse syndrome" but has lived on for years with a mini6 set at .75 btdc. starts super easy and does have a pretty smooth band...
nice svt contour too..i had a 92 taurus SHO for a few years..

I had a 93 SHO too, to bad it was a rust bucket, so I dumped it. I still love my SVT, a real sweet handling
car, I've surprise quite a few vettes on a curvy road ;)

I tried a different Sema ignition, but like most I'd guess that one probably is crap too as I've still got
no spark. Then I remember my old 86 400 had a Mini6 in it & I had a spare, so in it went, along with
the match coil & it fired on the 1st kick :thumbsup: .
 
Got any unbelievable deal this weekend on ebay, all these 88 430WR parts for $40. :banana: So i swapped the fork tubes with the set i got, These had some
rust spots on the top near the triples, but the real important areas where better, so on they went. Also changed the front brake line from these forks too,
bleed the line & it works much better. Bike start easy now, seems to run good, & now that the front brake works i'll feel better riding it around more then the back yard.
Cleaned her some more, & she don't look 1/2 bad. Still got to loctite the stator plate bolts,that's why the mag cover still off, dress the mini 6 wires better, service the forks, change the oil, antifreeze etc. Maybe a new seat cover, and i'll probably repaint/refinish a ton more once i know she's mechanically good.100_2322.JPG

The parts in the bags are engine internals, not quite all there , but between some other spares i've already have, i'm planned on be build another
430 motor, like Gary had at Unadilla. He combined gears & shafts from different years & built what maybe the ultimate bullet proof 430.

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Took the old girl out for a shake down ride this Sat, ran good, preformed well in the woods. In fact i was surprised of the torque for a 250, i had to climb a 45+ degree hill with tons of rocks at barely a walking pace & it soldiered on like it was nothing.

As with my 86 400, i had, i'm not crazy about the front brake, but at least i was already use to. Looks like i've got a ride for this year's Husky Gathering :banana:
 
one of my dream bikes as a kid (had an '87 CR125R + '88 XR250R at the time). props for keeping this old girl kickin' :thumbsup: love it.
 
you guys & your awesome deals are killing me.......I'm just waiting for my deal of a lifetime :D

Well then your really going to hate this one, right before Thanksgiving i found another 87 250WR, looks like a low mileage one.

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so for right now , ive got a pair of dueling banjo's
 
Nice to see you hanging onto WRs at this point. There is a lot to be said for riding off road away from a MX track
 
This new one has a title too, plus some other neat accessories, that i've never seen before.
1) silencer extension
2) fender extension & also rear sliding vent

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