• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    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!

125-200cc new in crate

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sabortooth

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Hi
I'm new to this excellent forum and am saving for a Wr125. This will be my first New bike.
My question is, What are the pros and cons of ordering a bike new in crate delivered?
I live in a rather remote area where the closest dealer is 5+hrs away. I dont really need to see the bike in a showroom.
I am no mechanic, but I can read and turn a wrench.
 
sabortooth said:
Hi
I'm new to this excellent forum and am saving for a Wr125. This will be my first New bike.
My question is, What are the pros and cons of ordering a bike new in crate delivered?
I live in a rather remote area where the closest dealer is 5+hrs away. I dont really need to see the bike in a showroom.
I am no mechanic, but I can read and turn a wrench.
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I have an 09 WR125 with under 20hrs on it that I am trading into Hall's in Springfield IL. It has carb mods and custom dynoport pipe. Also, has Rider's Edge valving in suspension. Make an excellent bike for someone, especially if you want to 144 or 165 it.
 
Welcome to CH :cheers:. I don't see it as a problem myself it's not like you have to put a whole bike together. I picked up a 2010 GG 300 in a crate and just had to bolt on the front wheel, bars, and a couple of small things. I do always check all the bearings etc for grease anyway. Bill's (site sponsor) will send you a bike in the crate if you go that route. I drove 4.5 hrs. each way to pick up my 08 CR125 Husky and my 2010 TC250 Husky. Didn't really save any money that way but I like looking at new bikes :D!
 
dartyppyt said:
I have an 09 WR125 with under 20hrs on it that I am trading into Hall's in Springfield IL. It has carb mods and custom dynoport pipe. Also, has Rider's Edge valving in suspension. Make an excellent bike for someone, especially if you want to 144 or 165 it.
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Thanks for the offer. This will likely be my last bike so I'm looking at NIB, with the extra top end.
 
lankydoug said:
I bought my 09 WR250 new in the crate. Since I take apart and grease pretty much every bearing with waterproof marine grease before I ride any bike I buy, getting it in the crate makes no difference. There isn't much assembly required but checking fluids and bolts for correct torque + shock and fork settings will take some time.
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Speaking of marine grease, are you meaning the green sticky stuff for outdrives, or something like Superlube.
 
Sta lube is what I was thinking about. Superlube would work in stem bearings.

How loud are these bikes?
Do they sound like a chainsaw in the distance? Just wondering.
 
haha, I've had some buddies (that aren't in the know) flick me shit around the campfire while firing up thier chainsaws to cut wood. "Hey man, my chainsaw engine just siezed, can I borrow yours?"

But the sound doesn't carry like a 4st. It louder up close but again, from afar, you'll hear the 4st before you hear the 2st.
 
sabortooth said:
Hi
I'm new to this excellent forum and am saving for a Wr125. This will be my first New bike.
My question is, What are the pros and cons of ordering a bike new in crate delivered?
I live in a rather remote area where the closest dealer is 5+hrs away. I dont really need to see the bike in a showroom.
I am no mechanic, but I can read and turn a wrench.
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I have bought two bikes that were in the crate and I only had to bolt the handle bars and front wheel back on.
 
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