Fast By Ferracci Husqvarna Cr 250 help needed?/ Build

caviar&cigarettes338 8/25/2021 6:25pm
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I have been trying look up some of the big ticket items they are not ones I need right now but I need to see if...
I have been trying look up some of the big ticket items they are not ones I need right now but I need to see if N style can re print be a graphic kit or try find NOS and the procircuit pipe on this is to far gone and I did some research team ran procircuit or 2CS or a SPES pipe out of Holland I’m guessing, sounds like what I read they ran all three of those pipes at some point. So if anyone see any one of those please send me a pm needs be the works finish not platinum. Thanks
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If you want a SPES pipe you contact Pierrot Junior Slegers or [url=https://www.facebook.com/ppspipes/]PPS Pipes[/url] on Facebook. He's the son of the former SPES creator and is...
If you want a SPES pipe you contact Pierrot Junior Slegers or PPS Pipes on Facebook. He's the son of the former SPES creator and is still creating handmade twostroke pipes under the name PPS. They are from Belgium and if I'm not mistaken SPES made also the two stroke pipes for Factory Kawasaki in Europe and was working together with Pro Circuit because they where really the best in the business.


Thanks I will be in contact with him
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caviar&cigarettes338 8/25/2021 6:33pm
8/25/2021 6:33pm
wpark89 wrote:
Good luck. Halls Husqvarna in Illinois would be my first recommendation for parts shopping. Also Bills MC Plus in Salem Oregon sold a lot of this...
Good luck.

Halls Husqvarna in Illinois would be my first recommendation for parts shopping. Also Bills MC Plus in Salem Oregon sold a lot of this era Huskys and stocked lots of oem parts. Motorsport Outlet has the parts fiche on their website. UFO still makes plastic, but they use a RM yellow color that doesn’t match OEM.

I would always see the Belgian SPES pipe on the 250s and the PC. I think it may have been PC in SX and SPES outdoors. They used the 2C pipe from England some too as a British team was really involved in racing the 250 in the GPs and had decent results with Carl Nunn and Paul Cooper. I believe you can still get a Doma pipe which is related to Sletchen/SPES. I think DEP has a bare pipe too. The 50mm forks may have been rarer in 01 in (JTs year with them) but later in 02 lots of them were trickling out to local supported guys or guys buying them through Ferracci. Hillbilly on here doesn’t come around much but he still had a set of the 50s a year or so ago.

Found out a few years after the fact that a French distributor used pics of me for their Husqvarna pages in their catalog.

Thanks for the help it’s been hot as hell up here in Ontario today prob recoded heat 42 c which is 110f for you Americans I think . So just got out to garage I started tearing down bike so you think the shock is just a stock husky shock ? Like stock Sachs shock for that’s year ?

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caviar&cigarettes338 8/25/2021 6:40pm
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wpark89 wrote:
Good luck. Halls Husqvarna in Illinois would be my first recommendation for parts shopping. Also Bills MC Plus in Salem Oregon sold a lot of this...
Good luck.

Halls Husqvarna in Illinois would be my first recommendation for parts shopping. Also Bills MC Plus in Salem Oregon sold a lot of this era Huskys and stocked lots of oem parts. Motorsport Outlet has the parts fiche on their website. UFO still makes plastic, but they use a RM yellow color that doesn’t match OEM.

I would always see the Belgian SPES pipe on the 250s and the PC. I think it may have been PC in SX and SPES outdoors. They used the 2C pipe from England some too as a British team was really involved in racing the 250 in the GPs and had decent results with Carl Nunn and Paul Cooper. I believe you can still get a Doma pipe which is related to Sletchen/SPES. I think DEP has a bare pipe too. The 50mm forks may have been rarer in 01 in (JTs year with them) but later in 02 lots of them were trickling out to local supported guys or guys buying them through Ferracci. Hillbilly on here doesn’t come around much but he still had a set of the 50s a year or so ago.

Found out a few years after the fact that a French distributor used pics of me for their Husqvarna pages in their catalog.

caviar&cigarettes338 wrote:
Thanks for the help it’s been hot as hell up here in Ontario today prob recoded heat 42 c which is 110f for you Americans I...
Thanks for the help it’s been hot as hell up here in Ontario today prob recoded heat 42 c which is 110f for you Americans I think . So just got out to garage I started tearing down bike so you think the shock is just a stock husky shock ? Like stock Sachs shock for that’s year ?

When I looked at stock motors I noticed they had a “t” where the intake into cylinder is but this one has a”C” In graved into it also. Like the T is part of casting but c isn’t
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caviar&cigarettes338 8/25/2021 6:44pm
8/25/2021 6:44pm
wpark89 wrote:
Good luck. Halls Husqvarna in Illinois would be my first recommendation for parts shopping. Also Bills MC Plus in Salem Oregon sold a lot of this...
Good luck.

Halls Husqvarna in Illinois would be my first recommendation for parts shopping. Also Bills MC Plus in Salem Oregon sold a lot of this era Huskys and stocked lots of oem parts. Motorsport Outlet has the parts fiche on their website. UFO still makes plastic, but they use a RM yellow color that doesn’t match OEM.

I would always see the Belgian SPES pipe on the 250s and the PC. I think it may have been PC in SX and SPES outdoors. They used the 2C pipe from England some too as a British team was really involved in racing the 250 in the GPs and had decent results with Carl Nunn and Paul Cooper. I believe you can still get a Doma pipe which is related to Sletchen/SPES. I think DEP has a bare pipe too. The 50mm forks may have been rarer in 01 in (JTs year with them) but later in 02 lots of them were trickling out to local supported guys or guys buying them through Ferracci. Hillbilly on here doesn’t come around much but he still had a set of the 50s a year or so ago.

Found out a few years after the fact that a French distributor used pics of me for their Husqvarna pages in their catalog.

caviar&cigarettes338 wrote:
Thanks for the help it’s been hot as hell up here in Ontario today prob recoded heat 42 c which is 110f for you Americans I...
Thanks for the help it’s been hot as hell up here in Ontario today prob recoded heat 42 c which is 110f for you Americans I think . So just got out to garage I started tearing down bike so you think the shock is just a stock husky shock ? Like stock Sachs shock for that’s year ?

caviar&cigarettes338 wrote:
When I looked at stock motors I noticed they had a “t” where the intake into cylinder is but this one has a”C” In graved into...
When I looked at stock motors I noticed they had a “t” where the intake into cylinder is but this one has a”C” In graved into it also. Like the T is part of casting but c isn’t

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sandman768 8/25/2021 6:59pm
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Any initials on the underside of the seat pan?
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Pat327 8/25/2021 7:21pm
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Really cool find! Great info from everyone, too! I'll be following your build for sure Smile
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ToyTechCycles 8/26/2021 7:52am
8/26/2021 7:52am
You have been receiving some great information. The PC pipe and shorty silencer were used in supercross and they experimented with different pipes outdoors. Eraldo loved the Sletchen pipe with stock silencer setup which broadened the powerband and made it great for outdoor Mx.

I don't want to tease then leave you hanging but I believe I have a extra, great condition Sletchen pipe and maybe a 2C pipe. I may have a extra titanium subframe and N-Style graphics also plus other items.

I have a open house at my garage each year the first week of October. I've been spending every spare minute, which isn't many, I own a small business and have a 91 year old father in bad health so spare time is hard to find. I don't have time to be on forums either but this caught my attention.

I'll try my best to dig through some boxes and find some parts for you when I get a chance. I'll post pictures of the parts.
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wpark89 8/26/2021 8:17am
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caviar&cigarettes338 wrote:
Thanks for the help it’s been hot as hell up here in Ontario today prob recoded heat 42 c which is 110f for you Americans I...
Thanks for the help it’s been hot as hell up here in Ontario today prob recoded heat 42 c which is 110f for you Americans I think . So just got out to garage I started tearing down bike so you think the shock is just a stock husky shock ? Like stock Sachs shock for that’s year ?

I could be wrong, but your shock looks like a stock revalved Sachs. Those are the normal FBF setting stickers for revalves. I had my 02 125/250 revalved by them and then the bikes were crated and sent to WA State. Suspension guys said the Sachs is similar to a KYB inside.

I know a guy who has a race team 01 125 and his shock is stamped FBF with a different adjuster than the one you have.


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caviar&cigarettes338 8/26/2021 9:31am
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You have been receiving some great information. The PC pipe and shorty silencer were used in supercross and they experimented with different pipes outdoors. Eraldo loved...
You have been receiving some great information. The PC pipe and shorty silencer were used in supercross and they experimented with different pipes outdoors. Eraldo loved the Sletchen pipe with stock silencer setup which broadened the powerband and made it great for outdoor Mx.

I don't want to tease then leave you hanging but I believe I have a extra, great condition Sletchen pipe and maybe a 2C pipe. I may have a extra titanium subframe and N-Style graphics also plus other items.

I have a open house at my garage each year the first week of October. I've been spending every spare minute, which isn't many, I own a small business and have a 91 year old father in bad health so spare time is hard to find. I don't have time to be on forums either but this caught my attention.

I'll try my best to dig through some boxes and find some parts for you when I get a chance. I'll post pictures of the parts.
Thanks so much you have been great help and I really committed to doing this right and eveything. I have dreamed about having one of these bikes. i ordered parts i found from Ferracci site yesterday that they still had left in stock which isn’t much, was chain adjuster block and I was missing top triple clamp bar mounts they had also . I found ktm still list oem parts so im slowly ordering all new and missing bolts that were wrong on bike and frame will go for sand blast powder coat and engine soda blasted. but I’ll buy what ever you have once you Have time to look thanks so much just messaged me or I’ll give you a call some time talk about bike .
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I was a mechanic on the FBF Husqvarna team in 2002.
I was brought on to wrench for the late Tyler Evans once Lamson healed up and Lammy’s mechanic returned to him.
I always thought the bikes looked decent but the suspension settings were horrible , the geometry was way off and the frames and swingarms were flimsy at best.
250 will be fine for a local vet but the clutch and cooling system didn’t give this bike a chance once the conditions got tough or beyond the 20 minute mark.
FBF suspension department was headed up by a guy with a road race background and settings weren’t comparable to the leading guys.
I liked Eraldo as a person but the team was a mess.
His coffee and deli foods selection was on point even if the bikes weren’t.
He loved rich jetting and would live by the dyno setting. He would be known to grab a bike and dyno it at anytime without communicating with the mechanic.For this reason we would run our choice of jetting at the race then when he left the track early after the race as he did , we would reinstall his fat jetting in case he decided to do some pulls on the dyno when the bike got back to the shop.
As for some of the parts , my memory isn’t the best. I do remember Lamson wanting some clamp offset options , I think we had 22’s and Eraldo had 27’s made , Steve couldn’t get him to make 24’s…
1211 silicone on the counter shaft sprocket was mentioned, this was industry standard , maybe props to PC or Factory Kaw, very common with circlips - not really an Eraldo thing.
Frame mods to foot peg mount, looks legit , strengthening load bearing upper tab. Factory and Troy Yamaha did this until the end of steel frames.
Carbon seat bases were available to us but staples wouldn’t grip and stay in , or would lead to cracking.We cut pieces of the carbon base and riveted to the stock base to stiffen it and avoid it popping out of the tank.
Other mechanics that were on the team there in 2001-2002:
Ross Miles -looks after many SoCal privateers
Rookie Sorensen - later Chad Reed Yam SX champ.
Frank Latham - now Marvin Musquin
Damon Conkwright -now Dean Wilson
Sorry long post.
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wpark89 8/26/2021 1:54pm
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Awesome info Kibby

I don’t know which of you guys helped me…but I was a local guy and did a few nationals in 02. At Hangtown my 125s clutch basket exploded in practice and a couple of the team mechanics pulled one out of a spare race motor and put in my bike. Also at another I broke a front number plate and one of the team guys gave me an extra with Steve Mertens background on it.

I do remember asking Eraldo once about jetting and he was so far off I just said Grazie and walked away thinking there’s no way my bike will run with that!

Didn’t have swingarm problems but I did break a lot of the upper aluminum motor mounts (frame to cylinder) on the 250. Finally cut my own out of stainless steel and they held up.
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ToyTechCycles 8/26/2021 2:00pm
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kibby wrote:
I was a mechanic on the FBF Husqvarna team in 2002. I was brought on to wrench for the late Tyler Evans once Lamson healed up...
I was a mechanic on the FBF Husqvarna team in 2002.
I was brought on to wrench for the late Tyler Evans once Lamson healed up and Lammy’s mechanic returned to him.
I always thought the bikes looked decent but the suspension settings were horrible , the geometry was way off and the frames and swingarms were flimsy at best.
250 will be fine for a local vet but the clutch and cooling system didn’t give this bike a chance once the conditions got tough or beyond the 20 minute mark.
FBF suspension department was headed up by a guy with a road race background and settings weren’t comparable to the leading guys.
I liked Eraldo as a person but the team was a mess.
His coffee and deli foods selection was on point even if the bikes weren’t.
He loved rich jetting and would live by the dyno setting. He would be known to grab a bike and dyno it at anytime without communicating with the mechanic.For this reason we would run our choice of jetting at the race then when he left the track early after the race as he did , we would reinstall his fat jetting in case he decided to do some pulls on the dyno when the bike got back to the shop.
As for some of the parts , my memory isn’t the best. I do remember Lamson wanting some clamp offset options , I think we had 22’s and Eraldo had 27’s made , Steve couldn’t get him to make 24’s…
1211 silicone on the counter shaft sprocket was mentioned, this was industry standard , maybe props to PC or Factory Kaw, very common with circlips - not really an Eraldo thing.
Frame mods to foot peg mount, looks legit , strengthening load bearing upper tab. Factory and Troy Yamaha did this until the end of steel frames.
Carbon seat bases were available to us but staples wouldn’t grip and stay in , or would lead to cracking.We cut pieces of the carbon base and riveted to the stock base to stiffen it and avoid it popping out of the tank.
Other mechanics that were on the team there in 2001-2002:
Ross Miles -looks after many SoCal privateers
Rookie Sorensen - later Chad Reed Yam SX champ.
Frank Latham - now Marvin Musquin
Damon Conkwright -now Dean Wilson
Sorry long post.
Great hearing from a experienced professional race mechanic.

I was smiling ear to ear reading your post. Eraldo did make great coffee and the food at his Christmas party each year was the best. I can't imagine the big 4 Christmas parties serving locally shot deer meat. It was tender and delicious though.

FBF did seem out of place with the off road bikes. When you think of FBF you think of their 2 World Superbike Championships and 2 US Superbike Championships with Ducati.

Thanks again for the information.
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caviar&cigarettes338 8/26/2021 2:16pm
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kibby wrote:
I was a mechanic on the FBF Husqvarna team in 2002. I was brought on to wrench for the late Tyler Evans once Lamson healed up...
I was a mechanic on the FBF Husqvarna team in 2002.
I was brought on to wrench for the late Tyler Evans once Lamson healed up and Lammy’s mechanic returned to him.
I always thought the bikes looked decent but the suspension settings were horrible , the geometry was way off and the frames and swingarms were flimsy at best.
250 will be fine for a local vet but the clutch and cooling system didn’t give this bike a chance once the conditions got tough or beyond the 20 minute mark.
FBF suspension department was headed up by a guy with a road race background and settings weren’t comparable to the leading guys.
I liked Eraldo as a person but the team was a mess.
His coffee and deli foods selection was on point even if the bikes weren’t.
He loved rich jetting and would live by the dyno setting. He would be known to grab a bike and dyno it at anytime without communicating with the mechanic.For this reason we would run our choice of jetting at the race then when he left the track early after the race as he did , we would reinstall his fat jetting in case he decided to do some pulls on the dyno when the bike got back to the shop.
As for some of the parts , my memory isn’t the best. I do remember Lamson wanting some clamp offset options , I think we had 22’s and Eraldo had 27’s made , Steve couldn’t get him to make 24’s…
1211 silicone on the counter shaft sprocket was mentioned, this was industry standard , maybe props to PC or Factory Kaw, very common with circlips - not really an Eraldo thing.
Frame mods to foot peg mount, looks legit , strengthening load bearing upper tab. Factory and Troy Yamaha did this until the end of steel frames.
Carbon seat bases were available to us but staples wouldn’t grip and stay in , or would lead to cracking.We cut pieces of the carbon base and riveted to the stock base to stiffen it and avoid it popping out of the tank.
Other mechanics that were on the team there in 2001-2002:
Ross Miles -looks after many SoCal privateers
Rookie Sorensen - later Chad Reed Yam SX champ.
Frank Latham - now Marvin Musquin
Damon Conkwright -now Dean Wilson
Sorry long post.
Thanks man such cool history !!
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wpark89 wrote:
Awesome info Kibby I don’t know which of you guys helped me…but I was a local guy and did a few nationals in 02. At Hangtown...
Awesome info Kibby

I don’t know which of you guys helped me…but I was a local guy and did a few nationals in 02. At Hangtown my 125s clutch basket exploded in practice and a couple of the team mechanics pulled one out of a spare race motor and put in my bike. Also at another I broke a front number plate and one of the team guys gave me an extra with Steve Mertens background on it.

I do remember asking Eraldo once about jetting and he was so far off I just said Grazie and walked away thinking there’s no way my bike will run with that!

Didn’t have swingarm problems but I did break a lot of the upper aluminum motor mounts (frame to cylinder) on the 250. Finally cut my own out of stainless steel and they held up.
Funny to cross paths here on this forum many years later…
I remember helping you , probably also Thomas Campion was helping , he was Paul Veracka’s mech.
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wpark89 8/26/2021 3:41pm
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kibby wrote:
Funny to cross paths here on this forum many years later… I remember helping you , probably also Thomas Campion was helping , he was Paul...
Funny to cross paths here on this forum many years later…
I remember helping you , probably also Thomas Campion was helping , he was Paul Veracka’s mech.
I think so…I remember a really young skinny mechanic with dark hair? I was only 22 but the guy seemed 18/19ish.

Wasn’t the best decision to race those bikes, but I really appreciated how cool it was to be able to roll up to any of you at the semi when I needed help. I wouldn’t have been able to do that on a Suzuki or anything else. It seemed like it was always a fire drill around there with a group of mechanics all busting ass to get one bike to make it to the line.

I also remember Daniel Blair raced a team 125 one race that year and Eraldo tried several guys on the 250.


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kibby 8/26/2021 4:13pm
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kibby wrote:
Funny to cross paths here on this forum many years later… I remember helping you , probably also Thomas Campion was helping , he was Paul...
Funny to cross paths here on this forum many years later…
I remember helping you , probably also Thomas Campion was helping , he was Paul Veracka’s mech.
wpark89 wrote:
I think so…I remember a really young skinny mechanic with dark hair? I was only 22 but the guy seemed 18/19ish. Wasn’t the best decision to...
I think so…I remember a really young skinny mechanic with dark hair? I was only 22 but the guy seemed 18/19ish.

Wasn’t the best decision to race those bikes, but I really appreciated how cool it was to be able to roll up to any of you at the semi when I needed help. I wouldn’t have been able to do that on a Suzuki or anything else. It seemed like it was always a fire drill around there with a group of mechanics all busting ass to get one bike to make it to the line.

I also remember Daniel Blair raced a team 125 one race that year and Eraldo tried several guys on the 250.


All the mechanics knew what it took to keep those bikes running and we had plenty of resources.We felt bad for anyone who had decided to ride them on their own so we generally did whatever we could to help everyone on Husky's.
That and it was always a challenge or educational to see what mechanical's the privateers were suffering so we could keep an eye out to prevent like issues happening to our own machines or we could repair something quickly and easily having already experienced it.
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caviar&cigarettes338 8/26/2021 4:36pm
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Looks pretty legit. The 50MM forks were nearly impossible to get outside of being on the team. Lamy got the first set they made, and I...
Looks pretty legit. The 50MM forks were nearly impossible to get outside of being on the team. Lamy got the first set they made, and I got the second set. The frame flexed soo badly, the 50MM were a Godsend.
I wish I can find that old fast by Ferracci add they did like a movie poster add in all the mx mags back in 2001 it was like JT fly home instead of et such a cool add I had it hanging on wall back then
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caviar&cigarettes338 8/27/2021 4:52am
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Thanks for the help it’s been hot as hell up here in Ontario today prob recoded heat 42 c which is 110f for you Americans I...
Thanks for the help it’s been hot as hell up here in Ontario today prob recoded heat 42 c which is 110f for you Americans I think . So just got out to garage I started tearing down bike so you think the shock is just a stock husky shock ? Like stock Sachs shock for that’s year ?

wpark89 wrote:
I could be wrong, but your shock looks like a stock revalved Sachs. Those are the normal FBF setting stickers for revalves. I had my 02...
I could be wrong, but your shock looks like a stock revalved Sachs. Those are the normal FBF setting stickers for revalves. I had my 02 125/250 revalved by them and then the bikes were crated and sent to WA State. Suspension guys said the Sachs is similar to a KYB inside.

I know a guy who has a race team 01 125 and his shock is stamped FBF with a different adjuster than the one you have.


I looked at pictures but might be totally wrong looked like the 125 team bikes had that shock and 250 still using same adjuster style shock I have . If you look at all pictures of Lamson bike and him riding
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wpark89 8/27/2021 2:13pm
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For sure. I don’t know, the stock shocks had the adjuster on the side…that’s why there’s the hole in the side panel. There could have been different versions of the Sachs shocks they used in 01 to 02. Lamson only rode the 250 the last National of 01 at Steel City after being hired to do well on the 125. Crazy…but I think there were 4 Husky 250s in the top 20 that day. Lamson was a solid 6th so decided to switch to the 250 class for 2002. Then broke his leg early in SX in 02.

Kibby…you might remember for sure, but I believe Evans made both 125 and 250 Mains at Salt Lake on the FBF bikes….he may be the last or one of the last riders to make a 125/250 main on the same night?
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wpark89 wrote:
For sure. I don’t know, the stock shocks had the adjuster on the side…that’s why there’s the hole in the side panel. There could have been...
For sure. I don’t know, the stock shocks had the adjuster on the side…that’s why there’s the hole in the side panel. There could have been different versions of the Sachs shocks they used in 01 to 02. Lamson only rode the 250 the last National of 01 at Steel City after being hired to do well on the 125. Crazy…but I think there were 4 Husky 250s in the top 20 that day. Lamson was a solid 6th so decided to switch to the 250 class for 2002. Then broke his leg early in SX in 02.

Kibby…you might remember for sure, but I believe Evans made both 125 and 250 Mains at Salt Lake on the FBF bikes….he may be the last or one of the last riders to make a 125/250 main on the same night?
No, he was 250 only in SLC for sure
caviar&cigarettes338 8/29/2021 5:13pm
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Little update I got some time in garage tonight finished tear down. Frame is headed to sands blast / powder coat shop this week . I’m making list and ordering bolts bearings and and all hardware I need to replace . And big big thanks to ToyTechCycles I have been in contact with him and he’s been a big big help and is going be sending a lot of cool stuff for this build, it’s going be because of him this is going be a spot on build I will post updates as parts and what not as soon as they start coming in !!
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caviar&cigarettes338 8/30/2021 5:54am
8/30/2021 5:54am
I notice on tear down some interesting stuff that doesn’t look stock like the top engine mounts they look well engineered, so maybe another Fast By Ferracci mod? a bit worn out bottom bolt hole I know . Might get local machine shop fix bottom hole up


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Sometimes the bottom bolt hole is elongated to help with fit after head mods….
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ToyTechCycles 8/30/2021 7:03am
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There has been some discussion on what the Sachs shocks looked like on the team bikes.

Here are pictures of shocks off Lamson's bike and Preston's bike. I got them off Ferracci's suspension shelf.



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Cole_Ughetti 8/30/2021 7:09am
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kibby wrote:
I was a mechanic on the FBF Husqvarna team in 2002. I was brought on to wrench for the late Tyler Evans once Lamson healed up...
I was a mechanic on the FBF Husqvarna team in 2002.
I was brought on to wrench for the late Tyler Evans once Lamson healed up and Lammy’s mechanic returned to him.
I always thought the bikes looked decent but the suspension settings were horrible , the geometry was way off and the frames and swingarms were flimsy at best.
250 will be fine for a local vet but the clutch and cooling system didn’t give this bike a chance once the conditions got tough or beyond the 20 minute mark.
FBF suspension department was headed up by a guy with a road race background and settings weren’t comparable to the leading guys.
I liked Eraldo as a person but the team was a mess.
His coffee and deli foods selection was on point even if the bikes weren’t.
He loved rich jetting and would live by the dyno setting. He would be known to grab a bike and dyno it at anytime without communicating with the mechanic.For this reason we would run our choice of jetting at the race then when he left the track early after the race as he did , we would reinstall his fat jetting in case he decided to do some pulls on the dyno when the bike got back to the shop.
As for some of the parts , my memory isn’t the best. I do remember Lamson wanting some clamp offset options , I think we had 22’s and Eraldo had 27’s made , Steve couldn’t get him to make 24’s…
1211 silicone on the counter shaft sprocket was mentioned, this was industry standard , maybe props to PC or Factory Kaw, very common with circlips - not really an Eraldo thing.
Frame mods to foot peg mount, looks legit , strengthening load bearing upper tab. Factory and Troy Yamaha did this until the end of steel frames.
Carbon seat bases were available to us but staples wouldn’t grip and stay in , or would lead to cracking.We cut pieces of the carbon base and riveted to the stock base to stiffen it and avoid it popping out of the tank.
Other mechanics that were on the team there in 2001-2002:
Ross Miles -looks after many SoCal privateers
Rookie Sorensen - later Chad Reed Yam SX champ.
Frank Latham - now Marvin Musquin
Damon Conkwright -now Dean Wilson
Sorry long post.


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