• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 96 wr250 opinons

Jerulator

Jerulator

Husqvarna
AA Class
I've been keeping my eyes open for a used 2-stroke off-road bike and recently came across a 1996 WR250 Husky on c/l that looks to be in decent shape. Anyway, I have no experience with that particular bike although I did own a 92 350 thumper a few years back. Any feedback on the bike would be appreciated. I'll be using it to trail ride here in the northern Ca parks, nothing too hardcore. BTW, I'm 53 yrs old weighing in about 185lbs (geared up), 5'11". Thanks
 
it will probably handle a little different than your thumper, as that still had strong swede genes and the 2 strokes were pure cagiva. if the bike is solid i say go for it. they are well built with some nice components. something newer may handle better but the 96 is a good bike. im currently fine tuning my first italian but its really starting to come together...in 96, the italians still had the nice wide 6 speeds that the swedes had so there is an advantage there. if you are ok with having an "older" bike i dont think you will be disappointed. they have been refined over the years but that 96 is surprisingly similiar to the newer up to 2013 bikes..
 
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