• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     FE = 4st Enduro & FC = 4st 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

FE/FC 2016 vs 2018 FE 350S...significant differences?

bmasho

bmasho

Husqvarna
AA Class
I'm considering either buying a used 2016 FE 350S with 630 miles, or a new left-over 2018 model. Any significant chassis, engine, or fueling changes?
 
I believe the newer engine is supposed to have much more low-end power but still rev way out. Lighter weight as well.
 
bmasho said:
Did the bike get a lot better, or just different.....?
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Haven't ridden the newer ones but they are supposed a lot better handling, power, and weight. If I could swing it, I'd get the new one over the used one. The changes seem pretty drastic.
 
2014 FE250 to 2017 FE250. Two completely different bikes in handling, power and overall fun factor. Would not get a pre-2017 bike!
 
I have the 2017 FE 350. If your looking to bump up the ecu, 2017 and up have locked ECUs. There are workarounds but they are expensive. 2016s are still great bikes. When buying used bikes, I'd say condition and price are more important than the upgrades which are minimal.
 
Having suspension set up properly for your weight and the way you ride is far more important of an upgrade than any new bike. At least for my weight. It would be foolish of me to think I would go faster on a new bike just because its newer and better than my 2015 Fc 250. I finally got a bike that is dialed in for the way I ride. If am worried about the newer bikes being lighter, I just need to lose a few more pounds to even it out.
 
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