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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Bike weights - 2000 Husky WR250 vs 2003 Honda CR250R

letitsnow said:
On the same bathroom scale my Honda CR250 weighs 217 lbs full of gas, plastic handguards, heavy duty tubes etc - ready for harescrambles.
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sounds light to me. my '03 CR205R weighed 230'ish with PC sparky muff, UFO pro-guard barkies, IMS 3.2 gal tank half or so full, MS bashy, rad guards, HD tubes, 11oz FWW, 15' of paracord on the X-bar etc etc. it was 220'ish dry if i recall and claimed was 212#!

honda lied, like the rest sans KTM, about 10# till about 2009 i think...then they got "ready to ride" weights and those were pretty on target.
WR's are robust, steel frame enduro ready for the most part. get a lot more for your money and spend less generally as well. my CR off-roaders (more than one...) ate stuff like plating coming off cylinders before a ring wore out (yes jetting was correct), wheel brgs, hubs, rims, fork seals, c/s seals, shock seals, frames, etc...those allum perimeter frames sucked balls. hubs and bearings were garbage too. the 03 motor was way better than the 04 off road. they were close but i really liked the 03. that 03 was a killer gnarly bike. 04 was ok, but, the 03 was great.
 
pvduke said:
sounds light to me. my '03 CR205R weighed 230'ish with PC sparky muff, UFO pro-guard barkies, IMS 3.2 gal tank half or so full, MS bashy, rad guards, HD tubes, 11oz FWW, 15' of paracord on the X-bar etc etc. it was 220'ish dry if i recall and claimed was 212#!

honda lied, like the rest sans KTM, about 10# till about 2009 i think...then they got "ready to ride" weights and those were pretty on target.
WR's are robust, steel frame enduro ready for the most part. get a lot more for your money and spend less generally as well. my CR off-roaders (more than one...) ate stuff like plating coming off cylinders before a ring wore out (yes jetting was correct), wheel brgs, hubs, rims, fork seals, c/s seals, shock seals, frames, etc...those allum perimeter frames sucked balls. hubs and bearings were garbage too. the 03 motor was way better than the 04 off road. they were close but i really liked the 03. that 03 was a killer gnarly bike. 04 was ok, but, the 03 was great.
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I'm not really worried about my scale being accurate because it was a comparison - both bikes were weighed on the same scale...
 
I don't worry about one bike being a few pounds heavier than another. I think what is more important is power to weight ratio and center of gravity. Power to weight ratio is pretty self explanitory. When the center of gravitiy is lower on a bike, it will feel lighter and hook up better than an equal weight bike with a higher one. That what makes 4 stokes (camshafts and valves) feel so heavy and makes them harder to turn. Add a starter and battery, and its even worse. I just got back on a 2 stroke after 2 years on a 450, and I'm already way faster with results to prove it. Can wait to get used to the bike.
 
maybe the scale i was using was off. if its really 217, i might have to go get me another one! i do get pretty weight-weenie when it comes to pedal bikes. ill fish-scale every part during my build lookin' for the lightest ones etc...yeh, i know, not healthy and obsessive...lol.

motoman hit it on the head too with the moving parts thingy...
 
pvduke said:
maybe the scale i was using was off. if its really 217, i might have to go get me another one! i do get pretty weight-weenie when it comes to pedal bikes. ill fish-scale every part during my build lookin' for the lightest ones etc...yeh, i know, not healthy and obsessive...lol.

motoman hit it on the head too with the moving parts thingy...
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My '93 CR125 weighs 220 (ready to ride) on the same scale. Not that it matters much, but it is fun to compare stuff!

I suspect that I would have been just as fast (as I am on the Honda CR250) on the Husky WR if I had put the CR ignition on it. Riding style matching a motor that spools up/down faster was probably a bigger factor than the weight difference...
 
egzacarhy! weights are subjective to a lot of factors. you make an excellent, valid point!!!
 
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