• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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!

All 2st 2 Stroke wish list for 2013

well for my best mate and long time husky rider....he bought a kato 300exce 2012, Why? Cos it had an e-starter.
lf anything else husky/bmw do in 2013 is fit an e-starter and hydro clutch, nothing fancy, same as all the bikes it will compete with and the husky brand will sell itself...immediately moi will order one and my mate will bring balance back to his life as the kato will be part of the trade in.
if hva/bmw don't at least address the e-starter....then you might see the 2t range phase out.
 
bigriver said:
mikuni carb would be nice. I like to fine tune my bikes.
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I have a 04 WR 250 with a Mikuni and it is great, i only use 98 octane mixed with fully synthetic oil. Sometimes i wonder what kind of fuel and oil some of the people that is having issues with the Mikuni carb is using.
 
fran...k. said:
I would like to see an exhaust system which is as hard to dent as the older air cooled types which went down and back up in the center of the bike, then diagonaly across over the engine. The 125 does only have one side to dent in which can help. It is the radiators, at least in my opinion which force the design of today's bikes so they could be re located and the factory guard suggested incorporated. I also would like a comfortable sprung seat.

Fran
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Have a look at this.

http://www.ossamotor.es/ES/models.php?idMoto=337

This would be difficult to dent.
 
Those new Ossa's are sick! However remember we're owned by a company who used the same engine for 80 years (the boxer). If you want change in 2t bikes look elsewhere.
 
marcmo0 said:
You guys and your e-starter fixation crack me up
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Not really a fixation but what the market dicates....would you buy a brand new car without ABS? No, so on a pure mass market appeal, and to shut the orange mob and 3/4 of the motorcycle magazine world up, put a bloody e-starter on Husky's premium and top of the range 2t, with a hydro clutch, and then lets compare apples with apples!
I'm sick to death of reading countless reviews of the KTM 300 and WR300 and the only thing that favours the orange bike is the e-starter and hyro clutch...FFS!!!

Rant over :)
 
Using ABS as an example is a poor choice. I would absolutely buy a car without ABS, it adds a major expense to cars to benifit people who are too stupid to lighten up on the pedal when they don't want to slide.
 
Maybe I'm just hard headed, but the only thing I want improved on my WR is a higher top gear. I don't want the added weight of Estart, nor the chance of DNF'ing a race due to DI electrical gremlins. Oh yeah, keep your autoclutches also. As for buying a car without ABS is a definite from me also, the last vehicle I ordered for myself had to be built because I didn't want power windows/locks.
 
Gotlabs said:
Maybe I'm just hard headed, but the only thing I want improved on my WR is a higher top gear. I don't want the added weight of Estart, nor the chance of DNF'ing a race due to DI electrical gremlins. Oh yeah, keep your autoclutches also. As for buying a car without ABS is a definite from me also, the last vehicle I ordered for myself had to be built because I didn't want power windows/locks.
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amen brotha...thats exactly what attracted me to my 300. If they could make an air cooled modern 2 stroke I would be all over it. Nothing like being 40 miles out in the middle of the mtns and having something go wrong with a uber complicated bike
 
On the contrary LankyDoug, no manufacturer would sell a vehicle without ABS as the car would not sell, plain and simple...that is the point l'm trying to make - whether you like it or not, guys changing from 4t's down to a 2t trail bike look at the husky and say 'Oh, no e-start'...ahh GasGas, KTM and Husaberg have a 300 that has e-start let's go to them....don't give BMW the chance to phase out the 2t out of the Husky range.
Personally, the conveniences of an e-starter is great for side of the hill type starts but it really peeves me off that ppl can judge a WR300 cos it doesn't have that button without riding one.

If you think l'm in favour of uber technology, l couldn't careless about DI, just put an ultra reliable keihin on it, rad guards and let's go riding....with a 350cc engine:thumbsup:
 
ohmygewd said:
On the contrary LankyDoug, no manufacturer would sell a vehicle without ABS as the car would not sell, plain and simple...that is the point l'm trying to make - whether you like it or not, guys changing from 4t's down to a 2t trail bike look at the husky and say 'Oh, no e-start'...ahh GasGas, KTM and Husaberg have a 300 that has e-start let's go to them....don't give BMW the chance to phase out the 2t out of the Husky range.
Personally, the conveniences of an e-starter is great for side of the hill type starts but it really peeves me off that ppl can judge a WR300 cos it doesn't have that button without riding one.

If you think l'm in favour of uber technology, l couldn't careless about DI, just put an ultra reliable keihin on it, rad guards and let's go riding....with a 350cc engine:thumbsup:
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You stated that nobody would buy a car without ABS. If if was offered as an option I would have them leave it off my car, so I guess I'm nobody. I don't want an e-start either but if others do more power to them. GasGas offers an e-start as an option, Husky could do the same in which case my Husky would not have one. I agree it may help Husky sell more bikes just not to me. If anyone comes out with DI I won't be the 1st to buy one but instead I'll ride my carbureted bike until DI is proven reliable and has clear advantages that are worth taking the high tech risk and paying the extra money for.

On a side note; I haven't seen evidence that e-start is reliable, I do notice that those that have it often have to push the button several times before the bendix engages and they usually crank so slow the rider ends up having to kick the bike anyway. This may be because they are poorly maintained or possibly a poor design for the dirty environment but in any case e-start is one more thing to screw up and more weight to muscle around.
 
LD, we have common ground mate, put it as an option but at least give the consumer the option....by not having that option just allows the other manufacturers a free kick in marketing via the press.
 
no estart, no di, good tyres and jetting sorted (sick of the how do i jet my bike posts). oh and of cause ABS.
 
Andrew188 said:
WR 300 have the worst kick start ever.
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That would actually be the yz426 or (400) lever that broke when you tried to start your bike so you had to buy one of the billet levers from the multiple makes that sprang up because the stock one wouldn't start your bike that you just paid big time for.
 
i never had any problems with my yz400 kick start lever.

the 250/300 lever is a bit of an odd ball IMHO.
 
lankydoug said:
Using ABS as an example is a poor choice. I would absolutely buy a car without ABS, it adds a major expense to cars to benifit people who are too stupid to lighten up on the pedal when they don't want to slide.
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The Viper ACR is one of the fastest, if not fastest cars around a track without traction control and ABS. Most of us want race bikes, but not everyone. E-start as an option is a good move.

JS
 
2013 WR300 e-start,4 way ajuster traction control ,ABS ,heated hand grips heated seat,center stand,self oiling no pre mix, gard mount tool bag,more and more BMW but dont change the price and they will sell like hot cakesLOL:eek:
 
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