• 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.

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250-500cc Weighed my WR300

One guy says the husky is 10 pounds less than the KTM 300, the other guy says it is 20 pounds more! Somebody has a broken scale...

Thanks for the comparison, sounds about right.
 
Very interesting, Keep up the study please... Would be nice to post the results in a chart and sticky it in common topics or something?.
What do the Mods think?
 
Motosportz said:
The husky is a little husky. Also it is amazing how much HD tubes and off road tires add tot he package. Can be north of 10 pounds. Choose that stuff wisely if weight is a concern to you. I personally dont care much about weight but more how they feel on the trail.
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I agree with the weight is not important to a point, where it's located is important, balance and poise of a bike can be disturbed and take greater effort to ride
 
Another buddy weighed his bike.
2011 Gasgas EC300
"With Ultra heavy duty tubes, steering stabilizer/riser, hand guards and almost a full tank of gas, my bike weighs 260."
 
2011 Gasgas EC300
"With Ultra heavy duty tubes, steering stabilizer/riser, hand guards and almost a full tank of gas, my bike weighs 260."
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I weighed mine at 255 , dont remember how much fuel was in it
 
I've always wondered if the 2 scale method is accurate. I guess, why wouldn't it. But it seems like something might get lost there.
 
bike on scales at same time no probs-gravity does the work. weighing 1 end at a time im a bit sus on though!
 
My 2000 WR250 with... HD tubes, aluminum skid plate, full wrap around aluminum hand guards, Baja Designs DS light kit, enduro computer and OEM 2.9 gal fuel tank full, was 252 lbs. This was on a County certified scale, at the local coal yard.
 
Norman Foley said:
This was on a County certified scale, at the local coal yard.
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I'm sure doing it on a bathroom scale isn't super accurate as a larger scale that is frequently certified, but it gets us in the ballpark. I've been thinking about stopping at a scrapyard and seeing if they'll let me weigh my bike.
 
I would trust a bathroom scale more than the scale at a coal yard or a scrap depot, honestly. Those scales are calibrated for loads of thousands of pounds, they may not be as accurate as we want down at ~250.
 
Kyle Tarry said:
I would trust a bathroom scale more than the scale at a coal yard or a scrap depot, honestly. Those scales are calibrated for loads of thousands of pounds, they may not be as accurate as we want down at ~250.
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I can assure you that the scales of commerce are very accurate. Go ride with the guys who calibrate them for a day.
 
cool to find out how the Maker's fudge the numbers. interesting to know what's really what. I can say one of the Asian's have gotten more honest. but they all still lie. some makers lie, by a LOT. i'd like to know what they weigh out of the carton just assembled, before riding.

for me it weighs what it weighs. it aint a bicycle so I don't get caught up in that...ive ridden almost everything. heavy and light. once im used to it and in shape im good to go, the bike don't slow me down at all, its just a tool. im 53, 5'6", bad hip etc etc...and the too big, too tall, too heavy WR300 is my fave. it's bone stock, claw hammer tough, stupid easy to service, starts easy, goes real REAL slow like a torque filled cream puff and does what I want in crappy sections and freakin waters my eyes in the faster stuff. short of a good running 450 or 500? aint lost too many drag races either and I can pass at will. best do-all bike ever. so if yer bike feels Porky, just twist the loud grip some more...works for me.

and.... the chain is on the correct side, too.

baroooop!
 
I'm the buddy with the TC250 and the xr250. I have an ultra heavy duty rear tube and I'm not sure what was in the front. Same on the XR.

One thing someone told me a while back was manufacturers back in the day would weigh each individual component and add it all up, rather than weigh a complete bike minus fluids. Could be where the discrepancy is.
 
I've never weighed a bike. But I had a chance to borrow an 07 WR 250 recently, and ride it the whole day. It was an amazing handler. A real surprise. Wherever that weight is, and however old it is... it sure hides it well.
 
I have no Idea what mine weighs but I've tried to make it as light as I can, speedo, headlight taillight, kick stand all gone. (well not gone). But the bike I had before that was an 05 TE510. Which my 300 feels like a mountain bike compared to that mamma jamma.
 
If youre a weight-weenie, go buy a road bicycle. You can spend $1000s to make your bike less than 16 lbs. Then you can take it to the TDF and lose.
Does it really matter if a bike ridden on trails weighs 240 or 260 lbs? Cmon guys, lets be honest with ourselves. The heaviest component on our bikes is...us!
 
I was wondering when someone would pull that trigger! I once told a weight-crazy friend that he should stop buying titanium and lose 25 pounds. Wish I had a picture of the look on his face. Yes, we're still friends. He actually thought it was funny.
 
Yeh I used to have a full carbon road bicycle that weighed a "plump" 18 lbs. Due to having heavy durable wheels. If I was gonna make that bike any lighter Id make ME lighter first.
 
K5PL5 said:
If youre a weight-weenie, go buy a road bicycle. You can spend $1000s to make your bike less than 16 lbs. Then you can take it to the TDF and lose.
Does it really matter if a bike ridden on trails weighs 240 or 260 lbs? Cmon guys, lets be honest with ourselves. The heaviest component on our bikes is...us!
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For normal trail riding i would agree but for racing it makes a huge difference, when you have to pick the thing up. I wish I was the rider that never crashed but I'm in the epic fail category when it comes to that. When it comes to time to take a digger pounds equals pain.
 
My statement was generalized; Im not sure who races and who doesnt. I race my 300 in B Vet and it never gets light when picking it up I agree haha.
 
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