• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Next project - 2002 CR250

Awesome. My '01 was my alltime-favorite bike. Fast motors on top, keep pulling. Had no problem getting good starts/holeshots against 450's (and 426's! Long time ago....). Great project. Mint it out, then ship it to me for some MX cross-testing!:busted:
 
I was not sure what I was going to do with this bike. First ride say KEEP IT. So not I need to go slowly and not overspend. Yes, it will be the perfect 250 to reside with my 165. Can swap wheels, tank and stuff between them as needed. Right now I am just going to slap some old 04 plastic on it to make it look OK and slowly mod what needs modded. Should be fun. It is a surprisingly good start. I see now why Bill (from Bills) always raved about the 02 CR250, it's quite a platform.
 
MotoMarc36 said:
Awesome. My '01 was my alltime-favorite bike. Fast motors on top, keep pulling. Had no problem getting good starts/holeshots against 450's (and 426's! Long time ago....). Great project. Mint it out, then ship it to me for some MX cross-testing!:busted:
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then you'll feel right at home on it if you ever come out this way.
 
Motosportz said:
I have been on a mission to sell a bunch of stuff and doing well. But I have also been passively searching for a 2000-04 CR250. Just like those bikes. Wanted an inexpensive project bike. Well this one has been on a local CL for a long time. I keep telling him it is not worth $1500. So today the seller needed money for a truck project and we struck a great deal (for me) on the phone and I made the 2 hours one way drive in hopes it is OK like he said it was. Some brilliant cap decided painting the plastic with truck liner was a good idea. Luckily I have a full set of plastic off my 04 CR125 so I;m good there. The rest of the bike is generally in good condition, bike runs well and pulls hard across a field by his house. Anyway I'm glad I snagged a 02, I always felt that was a real good year for these. Let the fun begin.
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Funny, I was watching it too but the price was silly as you said. Glad you got him to find reality. Should be a fun bike.
 
Motor need zero sorting, one of the best motors i have ever sampled. Gobs of power everywhere. Lug it like a 300 and grunt everywhere or light it up, like both. Rode in deep fresh mud and it was a torque monster. Suspension for sure needs love. Going to change the plastic, hate that look and the Mulisha / road warrior comments plus have good plastic here for free off my 04.
 
oregonsage said:
Funny, I was watching it too but the price was silly as you said. Glad you got him to find reality. Should be a fun bike.
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Worked on him for months, he did not seem to care. Then called me begging me to buy it as he needed some rock crawler transmission. Right place at the right time and persistence can pay off. Always wanted a 02 CR250, now I know why? Guess Bills raving about them rubbed off on me too. Bike is in pretty good shape other than looks ugly. That motor :thumbsup:
 
Motosportz said:
Worked on him for months, he did not seem to care. Then called me begging me to buy it as he needed some rock crawler transmission. Right place at the right time and persistence can pay off. Always wanted a 02 CR250, now I know why? Guess Bills raving about them rubbed off on me too. Bike is in pretty good shape other than looks ugly. That motor :thumbsup:
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Ya, you don't ride the plastic - rather you ride the motor! :cheers:
 
May not matter to you, but my 02 would only get about 50 miles from a tank ... The larger(I think) tanks from some of WRs might fit on the bike but you might also need to change the seat also. The later model WRs tanks will accept some of the newer tank shrouds.
 
Yes trhats about what this gets. Can swap the 3 gollion from my 04 CR125 IMS if i want. Also will be installing a Lectron for 5-8 MPG better.
 
Did some work to it, looking better and a bunch of things fixed. Crap late night pix...

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While working on the bike I have noticed a few unusual things. First it has a reed spacer block (usually for lot end boost i think) and a V-Force 3 reed block which I dont think came on these or was even available in 02.

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Also notice someone welded a frame cross bar right above the rear of the carb where the airbox boot meets it. Very odd. Not even sure why you would gusset it there. need to pull the tank and see if any other frame mods were done. Stating to wonder the history of this bike. Was bought at L&D in Astoria Oregon. Never titled, I have the MSO.
 
The Oregon title for my '06 WR125 says "CAGI" for the manufacturer. Does not say Husqvarna anywhere. WA is refusing to change it to read Husqvarna, my WA title is going to show either CAGI or CAGIVA. I tried to explain to them, but they don't care. I don't really care either, but I just don't want to deal with any boneheads giving me grief about it I ever sell it.
 
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