1987 Husqvarna 250 CR

[@borehole8631]

The frame design on those Husky bikes still fascinates me. What a perfect machine. Looks better than new! Rare machines.

[@Savage1351]

His love for frame rails is like no others lol. Gotta love a ding-less frame. all jokes aside great bike! Stunning machine.

[@elcapitano1972]

Classic 🤣😂😍😎💪🏼👊🏼 onya Kap! ❤️🏡🎨

[@theodorewood5083]

When I was a kid the big 4 bikes were everywhere. Huskies were very rare and I really wanted one. They had the look.

[@robvanduren761]

Mr Kaplan you have sent me on a nostalgia trip from my youth. I owned a 1986 WR240. Also had 2 1987 AE430. The 3 speed auto was a amazing beast. Like a mountain goat. If i won the lottery i would fill my garage with antique Huskys and feel like a King looking at them.

[@SA20121]

I had that bike in 87. I bought it from a guy and he only put a few hours on it, the bike was perfect. I rode it hard for 2 seasons and then bought a kx250. Hearing you ride it brought back so many good memories. I'm upset that i no longer have pictures of the bike!

[@chaffeecityusa1129]

Man I'm glad I found your channel. This take me back to riding with pops and my brother as a youngster. Glamis sand dunes. The 90's. Thank you.

[@jurriendoornbos6848]

Great bike. I'm Husqvarnafan and riding a Husqvarna SM 701! .

[@highwayman1218]

Those gen Huskys were super clean. 👍 They had such great stuff on em stock. RIP Mark.....

[@birkaracing72]

One of the last motorcycles made in the Swedish factory. Man I wanted one of those when I was a kid... (Still do thouh)

[@chele-chele]

I campaigned a 125, Husqvarnas were always the underdog in the U.S. but competitive in the right hands.

[@nicholasdavidson5683]

It needs to be in a museum :)

[@michaelr.ingelsby1975]

The Husky and KTM product lines are timeless classics in my humble opinion.

[@nickshades6727]

This looks better than most modern bikes.

[@davidanderson2393]

Very nice looking 250, I still have a 87 CR 430 that is in very good condition, always liked the look of Husqvarna's

[@craigcolburn8016]

Remember when they made the 540cc 2-stroke either desert Cross or country model around that year.

[@chele-chele]

My neighbor had the earlier 490 and it was a handful =)

[@adriankeys6245]

I'd really need to be on my ass to sell that ... what a peach. KC always gets the cream of the crop. thank you for showing. When I win the lottery im coming over there and im buying EVERYTHING you got.

[@manoelgoncalves4151]

I love that guy...his love 2 Stroke!!!

[@timconnell5878]

Great looking bike!

[@jerrymarcum9981]

It sounds awesome!

[@marcialquinones5683]

I love the style 80 to 90s dirt bike the new one seat look flat lost style

[@eltchavo1413]

😲😲but where you find all it's beautiful jewelry they are clean transfer if one day I come to the usa I come to see your magnificent museum👌

[@Extremegaz25]

Nice example ken, I had a 2008 and 2012 -450 husky and once set up were reliable, now KTM own them.

[@andreasbronwaller567]

Swedich power🇸🇪💪🏻

[@strvenoconnell4061]

I hope who ever gets it doesn't ride it much, I would just get a new one for that.

[@lucascady4992]

Great Video, awesome bike! Do you have any Videos on the on Can-am 250MX? I had one when I was 14 back in 94", I had the service manual and I think it was 84"? Left side kick, liquid cooled, mono shock.. I broke the pipe and through it away, I was never able to find a replacement, ended up scraping the bike.. This was in like 95, pre eBay and mainstream Internet

[@sonnyseabury4051]

Gorgeous Bike!

[@freedom7047]

Dream bike

[@santosalmendarez3678]

Yo monte una HUSQVARNA Enduro 250 en el año 95 y quede super fascinado con esa marca de motocicletas era super manejable y de buen torque si esa era original Sueca la de ese entonces ya las de ahorra son mejor todavía bien mejoradas saludos Kaplan gracias por sus videos ojalá puedan subir algún video de alguna xr250r del modelo del 96 al 2004 si an modificado alguna me gustaría ver puede que tengan algún video pero no lo e visto saludos muchachos 🇵🇦👍

[@michaelmays4790]

Beautiful bike

[@bigharrykochenbauls4567]

Times must be tough when you're selling the trees instead of the fruit...

[@donniebaker5984]

I'm on minute 3:50 . That puppy is tight I mean it's the best down one yet and that's a lot to say with this stupid Google KZbin sound system on a T-Mobile phone but it has no piston skirt sound at all it's like it's almost too tight to ride but we know better than that it's properly that's how it's supposed to sound with no dings and clings and clangs.... And when it's idling it's got that pure sounding buzz that the first aluminum silencers that doubled as a spark arrestor for the Yamaha mxs years ago had a really nice tone like this Husqvarna does..... This one alone is a rare 250 that's going to be hard to duplicate.... And that's about as clean as I get dang that thing is sure pretty

[@cristiansalazar9946]

Bro this is super cool 😯🤘😱

[@sludge86]

Gotta admit, that’s a nice one. 👍

[@Patricks_Projects]

Blue and yellow stripes on the radiator wings isn´t original ;) Between the yellow and blue there is a white gap, about 1.5mm wide. And the 'whatisitcalled' steering is aftermarket, so i think this bike was ridden more than you state.

[@jasonkennedy1670]

collectable classic

[@andreasbronwaller567]

Hi sir! I love your movies on old bikes and since I am Swedish and like Husqvarna and Husaberg which are the two cross and enduro bikes that are something extra. I wonder if you have the opportunity to film and show the Swedish bikes you have and explain what YOU think of them with blessed greetings from bike interested Swedish🇸🇪🇸🇪👍💪

[@A_A_moto]

😔 No wheelie no party

[@BrianPeters110]

Lol

[@Staffan1966]

1 of 312 ever made 250 cr with the electric exhaoustport 1987 and i got one 250cr my self This is rare bikes and beauty sweden made beast. i also got one 400wr 1987 and one 500cr 1986 and a maico 490 spider 1983 Love this bikes couse ots like wildhorses you never really know when your slide your ass in the ground with thise the powerband hit so hard and its not so smoth powerband like todays bikes. the handle bar is vibrating and shaking like the whole bike like a crazsy horse but i love them and that feeling I also got a 450fc 2019 its more like sitt and ride in a smooth suede sofa in compare to the old husqvarna a old worker from the husqvarna factory said telled me at trick one time To reduce the crazy handlebar vibration on 500 cr they filled upp with lead pellet from amunition inside the handlebar. And i tryed it and it helps lot.

[@kingoffunelvispresley261]

What Can You Say, But Sweet & 🍒Ride 🤜🎯🤛

[@cecilgamble9666]

So it's pretty ... Are you gonna look or ride it ... Pretty fades ...

[@donniebaker5984]

Even a Husqvarna chainsaw is much better and more powerful for cc than a STIHL chainsaw as I found out to be true when they cutting up a tree with a friend who had a Husqvarna that was 20 years older than my brand new steel and he was sawing up circles around me ... Anyways I've always wanted to have one of these bikes damn it always a day late and a dollar short. . In about 1996 I bought a brand new KTM 360 2-stroke and the guy bought it from his friend had a brand new Husqvarna 250 that must have been about the same year of a 1996 and he wanted to ride one of the new KTM so me and Andy the guy that sold me the KTM went out to his farm where they just started to bust open the cornfields and they had some really nice tracks laid out that was about 3 mi around the whole thing in and out of the cornfields mostly flat but a lot of rolling hills on the sides where it was mainly just open the bastards up and let him have it to top in and just hold it there. . And so we treated rides for a while I had about 20 minutes on that new Husqvarna and oh my God that thing would ruin and it was smooth and tight and just look at where you want to go and it would be there didn't have to hardly steer it all just throttle it ... And it was just as fast as my next 360 in fact we were dicing it up passing one another on a lane for the combined had already been through harvesting a corn rows ... It was a hoot and wished then I bought the Husqvarna instead of the KTM

[@sweetnothingsirobot3032]

Idk if I could be able to part with it

[@kevintackett7564]

"Cap USA" , in 1987, 88, and 89 Husky actually put together a pretty good package. They're 500's were notorious for being slow, imbalanced motor and generally slugs. Thier 250's were also known as being poorly carbureted, kind of slow and generally known as slugs. They were very well put together machines with a chassis to die for. Their motors, however, without expertise knowledge and factory parts, were lethargic at best. Was a Husky of this era a great machines? You bet they were, with a full factory implantation of works parts. Vintage Huskies, from the mid to late 80s and 90s, have a bad rap due to their lack of expertise infiltrating into race day for the common man. Will a vintage Husky CR500/250 ever outrun, outperform thier Japanese counterparts? No way, as they were limited by the underdevelopment of their motors.

[@williamfabiano543]

Slugs? No. I had the opportunity to ride a 1980 500 CR. Complete rattle box ? Oh definitely but if you could dare to keep the throttle you were riding ahead of the pack. Partly because the rear tire was throwing fist sized rocks at any rider behind you. I had a 89 KX250 and that 500 smoked me every time.

[@kevintackett7564]

@@williamfabiano543 the early air cooled models had a pretty decent hit. The later water pool models were slow in comparison to the Japanese motocrossers.

[@jimbo4203]

Bought a brand new 85 250 cr . I believe it won the MXA magazine 250 of the year in 85 . It was a good bike plenty fast , stock it smoked my 86 honda cr 250

[@kevintackett7564]

@@jimbo4203 all the Husky cr250s from 1970 to 1985 we're very competitive very fast and well chassis. 87 and all the way through the '90s their motors just weren't very good for Motocross, there were more Enduro leaning when it came to factory tuning.

[@jimbo4203]

@@kevintackett7564 i raced it successfully for a couple years and even got invited to the Tony Distefano motocross school

[@rasmuswellejus2809]

😍

[@seank404]

My frame rails are in bits never seen anything like it hahahaha

[@jkp8284]

nice

[@randyhodges3319]

Hey there Kaplan motorcycle museum..i have a 1974 dt250 yamaha enduro.And a 1976 yamaha dt or it 400cc .no titles.but both are complete.was going to rebuild them but I don't have time left due to cancer.if you want these bikes I'll let them both go for 400$.thanks for looking.or trade for a beater dirt bike that runs.

[@donniebaker5984]

Kaplan got your ears on? This is sort of off the subject but it's the newest video where I can pass this message on to you about cerakote... There's this guy on KZbin it's been running seer coat demonstrations for a couple years now he's getting really good at it of just using materials that he has around the house to put his operations together and he also does powder coating and he's learned how to anodize aluminum it's just common junk around the house and wires and some buckets and pans and he buys the chemicals and mix it up himself and does it with transformers and stuff and he's got an Eastwood powder coating system has their top of the line for powder coating is less than 200 bucks for all the equipment the spray gun transformers and stuff... Cameron just use the common kitchen oven to heat up these parts to cerakote them and he's coming up with some really nice colors on these dirt bikes of the bronze and black and some silvery gray looks to the triple clamps and things around the detail on a dirt bike it looks great check him out here's the address kzbin.info And here's another thought when you guys get backlogged like you've been behind on restoring these bikes to perfection you might inquire what he charged to let you subcontract out some parts while you're cleaning up the frame and rebuilding the engine and all that see what he charged you to like powder coat of spring for the rear shock or maybe just clean the whole shock up and send it back to you he's probably do the same thing with the triple clamps and stuff .... Just saying as we know these comment boxes aren't exactly the fastest most accurate way to exchange ideas versus being there in person.. cuz I always say any information is better than no information... Anything to do with helping you guys out even if it's wrong information you'll know not to go there again.... And things are starting to get tight ... Harley-Davidson just shut down for 2 weeks due to lack of parts they needed to finish 3000 bikes ... The effects of the planned denic is taking its effect now... Harris county is it shut down because of the last year's situation is catching up from production to handling to actual shipping all businesses have separate losses and had to shut down and the effects are really kicking in

[@darren_clark]

Acerbis: Ah-cher-bay

[@1micYT]

How much?

[@contraband1543]

Too much

[@yabadabadoo72]

Dez sled just look at it.

[@shugyoforyou211]

🍒😍

[@gb4408]

Doesn't matter to me cous. I'm slower than the bike

[@gazwit1603]

87 you were sponcered by husky but in other videos you say you were sponcered by honda in 86 witch one joe biden memories

[@fabricionovaes78]

Ual

[@jamesatkins7207]

Funny you rode for them and cant even pronounce the name correctly!

[@donniebaker5984]

Capital I'm sorry for this stupid s*** that Google keeps changing my story with this AI b******* I don't know how to stop it and it just keeps f****** s*** up hope you can understand what I tried to print out here because I can't use my keyboard as my fingers don't fit on the keys on this phone so all I can do is talk to it and it doesn't always print what I say Google AI changes the whole story after I print it and after I send it this was pissing me off

[@wesmattimore2895]

REAL HUSKYS NOT KTM HUSKYS...

[@Nudnik1]

rode Husky 1978 to 84. " Husq-varna" means " House by river " in Svede. שלום

[@jamesdec1774]

And husqberg is house by the mountain 🏔️. There factory, the original one is by the river and they power the machines with it. Belts and pullups clutches, it's very interesting

[@Nudnik1]

@@jamesdec1774 Gun mfg one of the oldest machine shops in world . Now Volvo made in China a shame... I had many Husqvarna s from 1976-83 Sweden. A Saab 99 and Volvo 240 . Best strongest quality of metals and bearings . Germany buys it's steel from Sweden .

[@TerryMidcap]

How much for that and the 500cr? If you still have them when I get my dd214 I'm buying them

[@norbertwaega5551]

Najlepszy! Skurwiel w klasie 250 !