• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Piston visual ck on WR250 aka the anvil

lankydoug

lankydoug

Husqvarna
Pro Class
I've been riding my 09 WR250 on the original top end since I bought it new in Oct 2010 for $4,900. I do a compression ck every once in a while and it's held at 205 psi... however this isn't the only thing that matters on piston wear. These Huskys have a tendency to wear the intake side of the piston skirt to the point of breakage without a loss of compression. Every 6-12 months I have a look in the exhaust port but more importantly I pull the reed block and look at the piston skirt through the intake port. I'm happy to report that there is little to no wear, in fact only the tin coat on the piston has been shined up in the areas where the most wear usually occurs. I ride mostly technical trails and very little wide open fire road type riding, however I do have an endurocross track in my back yard with some single track trails and a bit of grass track that I ride with frequency. I don't know for sure how many hours is on the bike but weather permitting I've been riding 1-3 times a week for the past 3 years and usually for about 2 hours each time. This bike has been tough as an anvil. I've worn out several sprockets and sets of tires but other than service/maintenance the only money I've had to spend has been on mods to make the bike more to my liking. I doubt what ever bike I decide to buy next will be able to match this one in the bang for the buck category.
 
I got 07 wr 250. It has been a warrior also, but I got the itch for 6 speed and electric start. Don't know what to do. I've been looking but no idea.
 
Buddy of mine has mounded the crap out of his for 8000 miles of NW Gnar. Bike just keeps going. Toss a piston in once in a while and ride. I've owned many Wrs 125/250 and all have been anvils.
 
Thank yuou for starting this thread. Everytime I get the itch for a new bike I seem to see a reminder ike this. My wr300 is all dialed in and runs awesome. Its like a timex...it takes a licken and keeps on ticken. I posted this once before but will again. Really the most underappreciated bikes out there

 
firecrotch said:
Thank yuou for starting this thread. Everytime I get the itch for a new bike I seem to see a reminder ike this. My wr300 is all dialed in and runs awesome. Its like a timex...it takes a licken and keeps on ticken. I posted this once before but will again. Really the most underappreciated bikes out there

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Excellent! it leaves you with more money to buy Blue Moon Beer.
 
I recently changed a Vertex piston on a 2007 WR 250, i knew the bike has been abused- burnouts, clogged air filters, wide open runs on tarmac, overheating when doing enduro training in romania...
the piston started to crack on the intake- everything else it was okay- bike run strong and started first kick.
I ve never came along a 2stroke dirtbike engine which could handle so much abuse without any problems- but a sstated above- check the intake side of your piston.
 
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