• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Wr 300 2011

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Cairnsy01

Husqvarna
Hi
Can anyone give me some pros and cons to this bike.
I have been offered a swop for my te 449 and quite fancy a 2stroke but i know nothing of this bike.
Any info would be appreciated
What to look for
Any known issues

Thanks
 
Depends on what you want to do with it. if you like to ride tight technical terrain, you will love the machine. They can be trouble, but not if set up correctly. Dragging clutch: fix with a MotionPro Terminator cable. Jetting and starting problems: get a JD Racing jetting kit. Make sure intake boot between carb and cylinder has some sealant to prevent any air leaks. Other than that, it should be pretty bullet proof.
 
I have a WR300 2010 that is pretty similar, I think the 2011 (or maybe 2012) is not using the Kokusan ignition anymore but a Ducati ignition that is more prone to problems AFAIK. I have this bike now for a little more than 4 years and I still like it pretty much. The bike is not perfect but if well maintained and set up it is pretty good. It is not the easiest bike to kick start, you need to do it right.

The OEM 5 speed transmission is close ratio, that means depending on gearing that you can either have good traction in first gear for slow technical zones but be limited on cruising speed on the road for ex (13/48). Or you can gear it larger so that you have decent cruising speed but a way to large first gear that is equivalent like the 2nd gear of other bikes. Well I may be a little dramatic but I did use a 13/45 gearing on this bike and in the slow stuff you need some clutch work or being good and fast :D I ended up installing a wide ratio 5 speed from a 2001 WR250, much happier with that !

I would go for the swap, but try it first.
Cheers !
 
Hurky said:
I have a WR300 2010 that is pretty similar, I think the 2011 (or maybe 2012) is not using the Kokusan ignition anymore but a Ducati ignition that is more prone to problems AFAIK. I have this bike now for a little more than 4 years and I still like it pretty much. The bike is not perfect but if well maintained and set up it is pretty good. It is not the easiest bike to kick start, you need to do it right.

The OEM 5 speed transmission is close ratio, that means depending on gearing that you can either have good traction in first gear for slow technical zones but be limited on cruising speed on the road for ex (13/48). Or you can gear it larger so that you have decent cruising speed but a way to large first gear that is equivalent like the 2nd gear of other bikes. Well I may be a little dramatic but I did use a 13/45 gearing on this bike and in the slow stuff you need some clutch work or being good and fast :D I ended up installing a wide ratio 5 speed from a 2001 WR250, much happier with that !

I would go for the swap, but try it first.
Cheers !
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Hi There,

What part of Spain are U ?
 
Dirtdame said:
Depends on what you want to do with it. if you like to ride tight technical terrain, you will love the machine. They can be trouble, but not if set up correctly. Dragging clutch: fix with a MotionPro Terminator cable. Jetting and starting problems: get a JD Racing jetting kit. Make sure intake boot between carb and cylinder has some sealant to prevent any air leaks. Other than that, it should be pretty bullet proof.
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Could you give us a link to get thet Motion Pro Terminator Cable ... will it work with the OEM Lever Perch of the husky ?
Thanks
 
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