Early 80's PC Husky pixs ?

mx-frog wrote:

Yes the 250CR was water cooled in 1984,but 1984 250XC was still air-cooled pretty much a 1983 Husky 250CR air-cooled/twin shock. Same motor pretty much as...

Yes the 250CR was water cooled in 1984,but 1984 250XC was still air-cooled pretty much a 1983 Husky 250CR air-cooled/twin shock. Same motor pretty much as your 1982. How competive were your 1982 Husky 250CR with J-model bikes in 1982? Click on the picture of my bike and you can maybe see it better.Thanks Frog

anniebert wrote:

Competitive? Good question. I was 16-17 year old teenager 81 / 82 so I didn't know the difference if the bike was competitive or not. It...

Competitive?


Good question. I was 16-17 year old teenager 81 / 82 so I didn't know the difference if the bike was competitive or not. It did hold it's own against the J-Bikes back then up the start hill at Saddleback and the Carlsbad Freeway. As a rider, I was a competitive Saddleback / Carslbad INT. rider and that's about it. I won my share, I finished mid-pack my share, and I crashed my share. I also had Payton, Jennings, Troy Lee, Clark Jones, Gary Jones, and a host of others egging me on which helped me push the limits as a person and a rider too ( and my bank account. I worked at Torker bicycles, Wheelsmith Maico, and PC to help pay for the stuff, but Payton donated a lot too ) Dave Berger also had a PC Husky, but I don't know how much he had done to it.


But the bike was highly modified... different reeds, boost bottle, pipe, silencer, porting, headwork, cut piston, different piston, modified suspension, 18" rear wheel, arced brakes and drums and I sure there were other things too that I can't remember.


But I do recall going riding once with Dan Bentley (he's now Honda's head R@D guy) and he rode the bike out at Baseline off I-15. Dan rode an 82 RM125 Full Floater at the time. He rode my 82 Husky and came back saying "how in the hell do you go as fast as you do on this thing" ... the forks flex, the thing has a hard time stopping, I can't reach the clutch or brake levers, it takes a million ways to move your foot to shift it, and it turns like a battleship. But it is fast as hell! ...LOL. No matter how much you changed it, it was still a Husqvarana....

Stoneface wrote:

Oh Man.... Anybody know anything about this restoration? Saw it on a French site as belonging to Ola Martin. http://www.leguidevert.com/_V6/viewtopic.php?id=250769&p=128 [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2012/07/21/250769_641_430_ola_martin_2_236219.jpg[/img] [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2012/07/21/250769_667_430_ola_martin_3_212380.jpg[/img]

Oh Man.... Anybody know anything about this restoration? Saw it on a French site as belonging to Ola Martin. http://www.leguidevert.com/_V6/viewtopic.php?id=250769&p=128

mx-frog wrote:

Yes the 250CR was water cooled in 1984,but 1984 250XC was still air-cooled pretty much a 1983 Husky 250CR air-cooled/twin shock. Same motor pretty much as...

Yes the 250CR was water cooled in 1984,but 1984 250XC was still air-cooled pretty much a 1983 Husky 250CR air-cooled/twin shock. Same motor pretty much as your 1982. How competive were your 1982 Husky 250CR with J-model bikes in 1982? Click on the picture of my bike and you can maybe see it better.Thanks Frog

anniebert wrote:

Competitive? Good question. I was 16-17 year old teenager 81 / 82 so I didn't know the difference if the bike was competitive or not. It...

Competitive?


Good question. I was 16-17 year old teenager 81 / 82 so I didn't know the difference if the bike was competitive or not. It did hold it's own against the J-Bikes back then up the start hill at Saddleback and the Carlsbad Freeway. As a rider, I was a competitive Saddleback / Carslbad INT. rider and that's about it. I won my share, I finished mid-pack my share, and I crashed my share. I also had Payton, Jennings, Troy Lee, Clark Jones, Gary Jones, and a host of others egging me on which helped me push the limits as a person and a rider too ( and my bank account. I worked at Torker bicycles, Wheelsmith Maico, and PC to help pay for the stuff, but Payton donated a lot too ) Dave Berger also had a PC Husky, but I don't know how much he had done to it.


But the bike was highly modified... different reeds, boost bottle, pipe, silencer, porting, headwork, cut piston, different piston, modified suspension, 18" rear wheel, arced brakes and drums and I sure there were other things too that I can't remember.


But I do recall going riding once with Dan Bentley (he's now Honda's head R@D guy) and he rode the bike out at Baseline off I-15. Dan rode an 82 RM125 Full Floater at the time. He rode my 82 Husky and came back saying "how in the hell do you go as fast as you do on this thing" ... the forks flex, the thing has a hard time stopping, I can't reach the clutch or brake levers, it takes a million ways to move your foot to shift it, and it turns like a battleship. But it is fast as hell! ...LOL. No matter how much you changed it, it was still a Husqvarana....

Mitch_Berger wrote:

I remember we ran Yamaha pistons on our 80 and 81 Husky 250's as well as different reeds and pipe. DB's 82 Husky had .040 taken...

I remember we ran Yamaha pistons on our 80 and 81 Husky 250's as well as different reeds and pipe. DB's 82 Husky had .040 taken off the cylinder base to give it some bottom end power. Talk about a narrow power band on that bike. I was the slower still older brother of DB. He also put a 18 inch rear rim on that 82.
George Earl at Up Tite Husky in Santa Ana built up some fast 250 desert racing engines for Dan Ashcraft.
George was a Husky Dealer for decades, he recently switched over to selling Beta's. He could probably remember some
specs on his 80's 250 engines.