• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

  • 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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    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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

What is this bike? Husky XR250 craigslist ad

La Flama Blanca said:
Never heard of this one before.. Is this legitimate? for $300, it doesn't seem like it'd be a bad project. Thanks!! http://harrisburg.craigslist.org/mcy/5358493760.html
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for sure, its an 87-88 wr 250, 400, 430, or 500..last of the swede models..my personal favorite. supposed to look like this
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someone just did some paint work..really looks to need rescued..it could an xc but i see a rear frame loop which makes me say wr. not a lot of difference. coolant hoses are misrouted, but has an aftermarket chamber on it
 
hey i put some work into that bike!
oh you meant the craigslist unit...hahahaha
sadly yeah you can find a better starter for 1000 or maybe less but i would likely hand him 300 for it. by the time it was torn down, cases split and everything put into my inventory, it would be worth the 3 bills. he might even take less. sometimes the bike is nicer in person, sometimes worse..
 
justin your bikes look great. You are correct about the cond. Ya never know untill you see it in person. It's worth 300 in parts alone for sure.
 
thanks..ive found they can be beat up on the outside, but often they havent been rode much. many times the transmission and such are pristine and the plastic has bizarre things going on..
 
youve had the swede itch for awhile..these chassis are good riders! comfy with a real fuel tank
 
She's been ridden hard and abused and she's crying to be restored. Get it,,,,,,,,,get it and make her happy again.
 
Restore it correctly and it will wear you out.

Think about Hallman riding the older swede bikes these were iron men of motocross.
 
I have sent him two emails now with no response. No other way of contact. Will patiently wait a few days and see what happens.
 
Yep, one thing you can count on about craigslist is you can't count on it. The listing is a little old...but good luck.
 
Looks better than the '85 I bought off of CL for $200 last summer.

Of course, all I had to do to get that one to run was stick in the correct spark plug (I wish I was kidding).
Mine sat for a while though, so I've been spending a lot of time on drive-train type stuff.

If it's been sitting, the back wheel might not spin, don't worry about that, the original brake pads will fall off of the shoes and lock up the wheel, it's happened with every "Park'N Rot" that I've ever bought.

My personal approach: If compression is good, I look for spark, if no spark that's OK, but it's about $500 to fix. If you have compression and spark, you probably just need to clean the carb, only real cost there is time. Once your power-plant is accounted for, everything else is a matter of persistence and trips to places like your local bearing supplier, bolt shop, etc (plus a few bike-specific parts like sprockets and chains). Unless you want to make it pretty, then you'll also need to buy plastics.
 
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