250-500cc Bringing a 2002 WR 250 back home

While poking around Craigslist tonight, I came across a pic of a Husky rolling chasis posted by someone I know who is always buying/selling/trading bikes. I inquired on it, and long story short its a 2002 WR250 that had been blown up. The motor is with the bike, just not in the frame. The top end needs replacement, the cylinder may need attention, and the crank needs replacement (bike comes with a new crank, its just not intalled).

After some talking I figured out that it's actually my old bike! It had been my HS race bike in 2003. I also know everyone who owned it up until the last year. So, I pulled the trigger, and I am going to bring it home tomorrow. All for $600. Sweet deal in my book. I'm really looking forward to bringing my old bike back to life.

Picture of what Im working with here.

Nice deal Jake! I can't wait to see it back together.

You've seen me run a Speedsville enduro or two of this WR. It always was a great bike. It actually worked out really well since I've been wanting a 2t to add to the collection.

Nice. You should have that back together in no time.

Well, I picked up the bike today. It will need some cleaning up, but overall it looks to be in solid shape. One big bummer though, what was originally advertised as a new crank turned out to be a used crank. Oh well, still a solid deal overall. New tires on it even!

So, from a brief look over the bike the major things I need are a new top end, new crank, and a cylinder replate. Does anyone know if OEM is my only option for a crank?

I'm pretty excited about this bike. I'm pretty sure I'm going to put my low hour 2012 TC250 up for sale and build this WR into my racer.

So its been a couple busy weeks, and I just got around to looking over my repurchased WR250. I got a pleasant surprise. At the same time that I owned this bike, the first time, I also owned a 2002 CR250 that I'd bought from FBF (Steve Lamson's old bike). It was a awesome bike, and was fully loaded. I had forgotten that I had swapped a few parts when I sold the CR. The WR has FBF titanium footpegs and axels. SCORE!!!

Sell me the axels!name a price,I even have awesome fbf stuff to trade.7194065762