• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

2000 WR250 on the road?

After a 13 hour day of working to put this thing together, I've just went for my first ride!

WOO HOO! :D
 
Norman Foley;87850 said:
Cool! If my old '00 WR250 comes back my way..... Supermotard time! :cheers:
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After some test runs, I've switched the gearing to 13/39. This works great for cruising at 60 mph and gives me the top end to pass on the freeway. Even with the tall gearing, taking off in 1st gear seams fine on the road.

I am amazed at the acceleration! It isn't scary R1 type fast, but wow, you can just fly on this thing!! :thumbsup:
 
I weighed the bike today and it is 240 lbs with a full tank of gas.

I've also been playing with the jetting. Some people had told me that I would need richer jetting to run a 2 stroke on the road vs running in the dirt. I have not found this to be true - it wants the exact same jetting as my harescramble dirt machine. Whether that makes sense or not I do not know...
 
Just an update - I have put quite a few road miles on this bike. It has proven to be a fun project bike that gets some weird looks!

I moved the upper shock mount on the frame so that it now sits level.

Maybe this will be a fun ice racer when winter comes around, hmmm.... :D
 
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