• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Rebuild or buy new?

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HammerDawg

Husqvarna
So I picked up a 2004 WR 250. Thinking of doing a complete tear down and do a frame up restoration. Adding new plastic and graphics undecided on color of plastic and graphics. While it is tore down I would rebuild the top end it has a FMF Gnarly pipe already. Thinking of a lot of powder coating as well frame, bars, wheels (COLOR?) OR I just ride it as is and sell it to upgrade to a newer bike... Anyone have any experience in this or opinions on the subject. So restore 250 or buy new 300?
 
Parts are plentyful and cheap for the most part.

The bikes are almost the same.

I think the 04 is put together better. new bike has better forks.

I'd rebuild the '04 and look for a set of TC mazocchi 50mm forks for it.
 
I would make it awesome with modern plastic, but in some sort of Swedish colored style and cool polysport stuff, like the headlight, handguards etc.
 
HammerDawg said:
So I picked up a 2004 WR 250. Thinking of doing a complete tear down and do a frame up restoration. Adding new plastic and graphics undecided on color of plastic and graphics. While it is tore down I would rebuild the top end it has a FMF Gnarly pipe already. Thinking of a lot of powder coating as well frame, bars, wheels (COLOR?) OR I just ride it as is and sell it to upgrade to a newer bike... Anyone have any experience in this or opinions on the subject. So restore 250 or buy new 300?
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Depends where you are I bought a 2002 cr 250 frame and built a bike from scratch I found it hard to get parts in the uk but now that it's finished im very happy with it and I haven't come accross another like it yet ! Well worth the hasstle I'd say!
 
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