• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

250-500cc Thinking about buying a WR300...what's it worth?

I ride in the PHL are as well, both in NJ sand and PA/NY rocks. I love my WR. I bought it in December, I have put about 1200 miles on it since then, and it's been basically flawless.

-The stock carb/jetting is TERRIBLE. It's a pain to start, the needle is all wrong, pilot is all wrong, etc. The good news is, there are easy fixes. My bike ran great with the JD jetting kit in the stock Mikuni, and it runs great with the Keihin PWK from Motosportz that I have in there now.

-I am 5'10"-5'11", 32" inseam, and the bike fits me fine, but it might be a bit tall for a shorter guy. Tall bikes don't really bother me, some people hate them, so that's subjective.

-I think that the stock suspension isn't too bad, bit it could be a bit softer/plusher for rocky woods riding. For NJ sand it was fine stock. Revalves are easy.
 
I am a dealer and I own one personally...basically bought my demo so I did not have to lose a ton on cash on it selling it to a regular customer. It is a great bike, really tough to eat really bang for the buck, but it is a very difficult resell, as are all of the Huskies these days! I have my 2 personal units, at what I would consider great prices, both have a ton of goodies, especially my 300, and cannot get the phone to ring. We have had this issue with every used Husky we have sold or tried to sell. It seems that if it is not orange it is a very tough sell. This is the link to my personal 300 for reference purposes....

http://phoenix.craigslist.org/wvl/mcd/4017109837.html
 
I still have the carb. I sold the jet kit to another guy on here.

I did get a DEY needle for the TMXX, which should be a LOT better than the GAY, but I need to measure it and try it out. I suspect that the GAY needle is the source of a lot of the issues, but I don't know for sure.

My bike ran well with the TMX with the JD jet kit, the PWK is just "meatier" right off idle which is where I ride my bike a lot in technical singletrack, so I am running that instead. For a faster rider or more open terrain, the TMX would be great.
 
I never get the idea of "resale value" on a dirt bike. I beat all mine to hell. I consider them junk and by the time I go to sell if they are actually worth something thats a bonus.
 
firecrotch said:
I would guess $3-400. I bought my 300 from geoff. Hes a good guy and knows huskys inside and out. I would give him a call promptly on Tuesday if your serious when they open up. Doubt that thing lasts more than a couple days at that price if its not spoken for already.
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He got the factory authorization to clear the 2013s Thursday night. I saw his ad on CL Friday morning for the WR300 & called to ask if they would hold it till I could get there from Tacoma. While I was there, three people called about the bike. Geoff & his wife were super nice.

I haven't even been able to ride it yet, save a couple trips around the block. I had to order all new gear & it won't get here till next week. I rode a lot 20 years ago, mostly XRs. I have a 10 year old son & I bought him a XR70 & all the gear. He's taken to it like a duck to water & I'm sick of chasing him on my MTB.

I've been looking for a bike for a month, I hadn't really considered a 2 stroke. The more I read about this bike the more I wanted it. It's got all the power I could want & is as light as my old XR250. I've read a lot here & have a good idea of the must haves. I'll start with rad guards.

I figured this would be a good spot to jump in & introduce myself, I'm Paul. I've already garnered a wealth of info on my bike here & really appreciate this forum, thanks.
 
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