• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 supermoto

Might be best to hold-off on all bikes purchases till ya check with SP and his corral of Huskies...
 
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The bad news is that due to emissions control, the first time you twist the throttle on that bad boy, I'm thinking it's going to be a huge disappointment (above image of Eddy Murphy comes to mind). And you can forget about ecu flashing, KTM put a full stop to that. The good news is that I already ordered a pcv which I intend to modify to fit the 701 and have begun writing/layering mapping for it based on the 70hp 690 Duke R. Not that I would ever do this to a street legal bike, of course everyone will be racing their 701's at race tracks. *cough*
 
Sounds like the KTM 690 Enduro and Husky offerings may be pretty close to the same machine.

Just got back from a little over 1,000 miles over a week of backcountry riding / camping Oregon with my wife. We've got the 2015 KTM 690 enduros. I absolutely love this bike. Fuel injection was flawless, no difference at 200 feet or 7,000 feet hot, cold or wet - ran like a champ.

I put on FMF Q4 silencers and UNI foam air filters - then had the dealer install an ECU map designed for a open exhaust and foam air filter. They have more juice at low RPM. There is also a range of ECU maps stock on the bike, one for poor fuel, a soft map, a standard map and a performance map.

We put on Safari tanks and Giant loop bags for traveling. Just felt really nice and solid with the load. It is a shame to add the extra gas and luggage because this is a nice handling dual sport. My wife comes off a TE310 and she loves the big KTM. I put Scott's steering dampers on the KTM's and they were so nice in sand and mud, I ordered them for the Huskies as well. We had rain on this trip and they did well in mud.

I'm really glad Husky is getting this chassis so I can take them to Bill's Motorcycle Plus in Salem if there is something I can't handle. Looking forward to your "Off Road" goodies Tinken!
 
Awesome, yes pcv is sitting on my desk. It's actually going on a KTM 690R, but I have 3 weeks to play with it before install.
 
My friend has a 2010 690R. He has commented a lot about how the big single radiator severely restricts the steering on his bike. He has his steering stops adjusted as far in as he can and it doesn't give him as much steering as I have on the 630, and that is arguably lacking itself. I hope they can get some more side to side steering out of the 701's as there will be guys taking them on the single track. The 690R is my friends only off road bike and he can power up and over just about everything on it, but the switchbacks is a 690's Achilles heel.
 
XLEnduroMan said:
My friend has a 2010 690R. He has commented a lot about how the big single radiator severely restricts the steering on his bike. He has his steering stops adjusted as far in as he can and it doesn't give him as much steering as I have on the 630, and that is arguably lacking itself. I hope they can get some more side to side steering out of the 701's as there will be guys taking them on the single track. The 690R is my friends only off road bike and he can power up and over just about everything on it, but the switchbacks is a 690's Achilles heel.
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I felt the same way about the turning stops on the road, but you learn to spin the wheel regularly off road to pivot about.
 
If it's available here (in Jakarta) I will definitely buy it. I always want a 690 enduro, but local KTM dealer doesn't sell it even though they sell 690 duke, 990 R and most of the other models. So, if 701 is the closest to 690 that I can buy here, than I'll buy it :D
 
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