• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 WR300 in print again

BikeSDP

BikeSDP

Husqvarna
AA Class
The postman (err postperson) delivered the September 2009 issue of Dirt Rider today. There is an article about the 2009 WR300 on page 55. Interesting read, though only a page and a half. Don't want to spoil it for you if you've yet to receive your's, but I'll tease you with one quote that I found funny. They had three reviews of the bike as is customary in that mag. The one that stood out: "The kickstarter is the first hint as to why Jimmy Lewis calls this bike 'Stumpy'."

I'm still glad I bought mine. :applause:
 
My favorite quote:
"How fast? This bike walks away from 450cc four-strokes in a third-gear roll-on or even in hammer down acceleration. Trust us, this bike is Open-class." :smirk:
 
The DR crew also is welcoming info concerning good set up tips for the WR300. They were testing a bone stock unit. C-Mon WR300 guys send them your set ups, carb, PV setting, suspension, help them get her dialed in. Maybe LTR can make the DR tested list, any of you guys using LTR suspension? Tire choice? Pipe more more lets get this 300 up to task, they even had brake issues, odd because of the similarity to the KTM Brembo units which they said were far superior, any with fluid bleed/change/upgrade, pads (My fave are CM44 Braking pads). Give em some input.

DRmail@sorc.com
 
robertaccio;43517 said:
The DR crew also is welcoming info concerning good set up tips for the WR300. They were testing a bone stock unit. C-Mon WR300 guys send them your set ups, carb, PV setting, suspension, help them get her dialed in. Maybe LTR can make the DR tested list, any of you guys using LTR suspension? Tire choice? Pipe more more lets get this 300 up to task, they even had brake issues, odd because of the similarity to the KTM Brembo units which they said were far superior, any with fluid bleed/change/upgrade, pads (My fave are CM44 Braking pads). Give em some input.

DRmail@sorc.com
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Odd, huskys have fantastic brakes most find better than the KTM even if they are very similar design wise.

K
 
Motosportz;43519 said:
Odd, huskys have fantastic brakes most find better than the KTM even if they are very similar design wise.

K
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It could have been many things. Someone could have spilled some oil on the pads. Hard to tell without someone being there.

I'm still waiting for my issue so I have not read the article yet.
 
WR 300 vs. Dirt Rider

Got my issue yesterday also. Possible the Dirt Rider crew gave up on tuning the bike when they couldn't figure out where to plug the lap top in?

WR Bob
 
Motosportz;43519 said:
Odd, huskys have fantastic brakes most find better than the KTM even if they are very similar design wise.

K
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There is quite a dramatic difference in the brakes between my 610 and the 300 in terms of modulation.

Oh, and I thought the article did concede that maybe, just maybe a leaky fork seal caused oil to hit the pads
 
#1 for the sake of sales,,,,,,please give the mag a gone over thoroughly machine, broken in and in some way dialed in at least a little bit,,,ie jetted for the 90% mag testing grounds of SoCal areas. PV set for smoothness, with noted option to adjust for hard hit.non leaking fork seal,,,,I would bet if it was properly air bled and excercised (bounced thru the travel with some fork fluid on the leg and wiped down it will be fine.)
The DR guys are good guys and very reasonable objective test riders, the standards /bar set by all the bikes they test from OEM to Factory specials is very high, so when they have gripes about certain ergos and leaky fork seals, it needs to be mentioned. remember it still always is opinion of each rider even the well respected testers. PS I think I would like the "little" stumpy kick lever, I have always liked the little quick dab kick starters.
PS they gave the Aprilia MXV450 a very good rating,,even old school crusty demon pro factory Phil Lawrence really wanted to get some real factory set up help so he could really cut loose on the twin. Chris Barrett liked it too, Ape has been hard at work, bravo, seems they got the superbike dialed in as well!
 
in print

the questions is who is setting up the bikes for tehe mags. i know they don't give them one from the crate. thee used to be somebody up in the chino hills area who was doing the stuff for husky. an independent. anybody know ?? i fail to understand why husky wouldn't have a dealer set the bike up.. uptite, Gp, ????? :excuseme::excuseme::excuseme:
 
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