• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 my 2008 WR250 Review

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RIDER196

Husqvarna
B Class
I raced the wr at the Powerline gncc yesterday in vet C. I own a 06 ktm 300 xc that is dialed in perfectly for me. I wanted to race the bike becuase I am considering buying a husky for 09.

I thought the motor was absolutly amazing. It has a flywheel weight on it, not sure what weight. The motor pulled very hard and reminded me of my 300 with slightly less lower end power. I was extremely impressed. Note, I am 6'3" and weigh 225 lbs.

The front break was far better then my ktm.

What I really couldnt stand were the forks, they were way, way to stiff and didnt seem to soak anything up. I actually pulled off the track and backed off on the rebound, it helped a little bit.

I thought the bike was more stable over all and turned better. Seemed like it was easier for me to rail burns and carve quick turns.

I am not sure what the weight difference is on the two bikes but the wr seemed very nimble.

From what I understand the 09 is getting 50mm forks along with other minor changes,
 
Your right on, a great bike with some horrible forks. Send them to Les at LT-racing and they will be butter. Your size and weight... just tell Les you want the Ken Harding treatment and you'll be good to go.
 
I heard they are putting the 50mm forks on the 09, can anyone confirm that? How much better are the 50mm forks?
 
I thought the 08 came with 50's? Either way if the bike was brand new the forks weren't broken in, it takes several rides for them to soften up.
 
The 50mm forks on my 08 TXC450 are light years ahead in design and performance IMHO. Still might need revalved but in the end you will have some AWESOME forks.
 
2009 WR 250/300 will have the standard "TE" 50mm fork, not the twin chamber style that are on the TC/TXC. I thought the '08 WR 250 had the 50mm on it as well. It is a great bike and am keeping my 2007.
 
I've got the 50's on my 2006 WR250, with FBF billet clamps. It's stiff as he%#.

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