• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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!

125-200cc Project cr250

haulin husky7

haulin husky7

Husqvarna
AA Class
I recently bought my dads old 2000 cr250 from the guy he sold it to around 2010. It’s in pretty rough shape needs pretty much all frame bearings, cracked triple clamps, dead shock pretty much to be expected from a early 2000s husky with not much maintenance. The engine still runs great but the top of the jug is welded at the power valve covers, it was like this when we previously owned it and never knew why. I recently found a 12 wr300 engine on eBay for $500 and thought possible top end swap or swap the whole engine but use the cr electronics. From my experience the cr ignition is a lot smoother than the WR were. Anyone have experience with this or know anyone that has swapped the top end on older 250s to the 300?
 
I think that It's all swappable and yes cr ignition with a flywheel weight is perfect on the WR, even better with a keihin
 
You might want to consider rebuilding that engine. Those CR250's were really good. I know because I have, and will never part with my 2002 CR250. I've owned many WR250s and ridden piles of WR300's... like the CR250 the best.

BTW when I bought mine for $900 it ran but was covered end to end in truck liner and was generally not taken care of. This bikes are really pretty easy to disassemble and replace whats needed. I feel the 2000-2002 CR250 was a sweet spot for husky. My 02 CR250 feels far different than a WR250/300 in many ways regardless that they look basically the same on paper. If it had a counter balancer and E-start I'd never ride the TE250i again.
 
my gem of a 02 CR250 when I bought it in 2014

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Then to this...

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Now it looks like this and I still ride it even though I have a gaggle of new and newish dirtbikes at my disposal

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