250-500cc Broken frame, '04 wr250

Nasty break right here. could have been ugly.

Riding partner was complaining of his front end being loose last weekend. we stopped a few times to try and diagnose and came up with nothing. figured it was a head bearing going out.

he got home and began to tear down for a top end rebuild and found this mega break. broke all the way thru both tubes. could easily flex it open 1/2" once the motor mount was removed.

so we fixed it.

anyone else seen this happen?

Holy carp I bet that had a "loose" feeling. I've never seen one crack there. Loose motor mounts and cracked frames go hand-in-hand, were any of the mounts loose?

one plate on the top mount was broken.

ive had a crack on my 07 frame where the rear master clyinder is, but ive never seen a husky frame break there before

I did crack the swingarm on my CR250, Think it was my '01 but may have been my '00.....

Wow yes sir shes cracked. Nice job on the repair, you guys did an awesome job. We should all get used to this with the frames being made by KTM now

I've never seen one in person but I've seen multiple pictures and videos of ktm coming apart at the triple tree

Nate Kanney broke KTM frame, right off at the steering stem, at a NETRA HS about 5 years ago.

Only time will tell on the new husky's I'm glad they up dated to some of the new technology but I'm wishing they didn't copy cat and already produced bike. I didn't mean to High jack this guys thread by making a joke though.

I have a 93 360 and had a 92 360, the difference between them was negligible, the exhaust and kickstand were the difference except for a huge difference for this conversation, there was no upper motor mount in 92, never saw anything on the frame that looked marginal, but definitely see the advantage as the handling felt a little more accurate

As much as i hate perimiter frames ive not seen one break, but thank F@@@ the husky is steel easy fix could of been very nasty if the lower tube went tooo.