• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 701 Enduro It's official!

That video will have a lot of weekend warriors fantasizing about hopping on the big bike, heading down the highway, and then transitioning seamlessly to sand and singletrack in the mountains, but their ride won't be going quite the way as the professional rider in video's ride went.:doh:
 
I like it as well - a lot! And having the a husky as a 'premium brand' in the orange world, can't hurt the second hand price of our Terra's......
 
Well considering guys like Kelly and perhaps even myself take a "Dual Sport" and do some pretty technical single track stuff, nothing in that video seems out of reach.

However, the gloves with the gunsight in the palm seems pretty out there. With that level of attention to detail you'd have to wonder if his socks and skivvies have a Husky logo too.

That thing just needs a Zip Ty PCV map and BOOM!
 
Is it just me or does the guy who says "Husqvarna" at the beginning sound a lot like Leonard Nimoy?

I' interested. A 690 that isn't ugly, has a little more travel, but still a seat that isn't too damn tall. And it's power spanks a TE610 all day till Sunday.

I wanna do that same ride that's in the video, too!
 
I agree with mnb, I found the 690 ugly/awkward looking in enduro form. I'd love to have one of these in supermoto form for straight street duty. Gotta be pushing what....$11k?
 
11k if you're lucky enough to find one and the dealer will deal. I think the msrp will be closer to 12,500
 
Saw a bunch of new huskys this weekend at the IMS MC show. Really interesting styling and look. This 701 was not there but bet it will be very sexy in the flesh. That said the lack of an undercarriage frightens me for hard DS use. We have a 690 shop bike at work I so hold toss a leg over some day and get a feel for this platform. I do like the look more than the white breg look that preceded the 2016's.
 
bikesparky said:
That must be smallest exhaust hole on a +500 cc I've ever seen!
Hallo FMF?!
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Most folks with 690's are changing out the pipes to FMF or Wing, seems most popular. The stock silencer is really heavy and sheds a lot of heat - a lot of heat - right where you don't want it.
 
I'm not 100% sold on the structural tank as a subframe....
Seems like something expensive to tear up...
 
Yeah, crack that subframe/tank and the replacement cost will be STEEP, I bet. Probably similar to replacing the same part on the 690 enduro... (I don't know the cost, but one should be able to look up the part number and get a price).

I am definitely interested in this bike, but I have to wonder how much I'd actually get to RIDE it. There's almost no dual sporting with in 2-3 hours of my house. Sure, I could ride it to work, but I have better bikes for that task. And for weekend riding in the Santa Cruz Mountains and such. Like my Multistrada or my F800GS.

I was kinda hoping I could find a bike to replace my '03 TE610e AND the F800GS so I could thin the herd a little. 6 bikes is getting to be expensive in annual registration and insurance fees, not to mention a hassle with maintenance and finding space to park them. But I'm pretty sure I'd have more fun riding the 701 Enduro than my older, not popular generation TE610e.
 
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