• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Any 17 501 Owners Yet?

My local dealer said we won't see them around my neck of the woods until late next month.. They say word has it, its just going to be a facelift 2016 S model though. I can't wait to see what its actually going to bring though
 
I'm also waiting on one in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Eta December.

Does anyone know how many horsepower the new 501 produces?

Also, how is everyone making out locating crash protection for the new 17 FE 501? Most of what I've seen naturally has not been released as the bike hasn't been either.

I'd love to hear what everyone is thinking of doing to there bikes?

Does anyone know what kind of tires the FE 501 comes with, would it make sense switching to the Shinko 505 and a Goldentyre fatty on the front right out of the gate? I ride a lot of rock and roots, technical climbs.

Cheers,

Christian
 
Trying to find out the length of the 2017 FE 501 shifter length, does anyone know the length? Safe to assume 10mm?
 
Guys, I heard threw the Thumper Forum that for the USA the FE is held up in CARB in California re: emissions.

Most believe its because of the mapping.
 
I spoke to Canadian Husky dealer today and they have confirmed that there FE delivery is delayed until Dec/Jan.
 
Wadzy said:
I spoke to Canadian Husky dealer today and they have confirmed that there FE delivery is delayed until Dec/Jan.
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My Husky dealer said not to expect an FE501 until Feb at the earliest. They are still sitting in Austria waiting for approvals.
 
Hi Scotty, Nice pic on your profile btw. Sweetness. Hey thanks for the update on your end.

Is this in eta in the USA or in Canada?

Also, while I have you. Have you had much luck negotiating a decent $PRICE$ on your 2017 FE 501?

In Western Canada they are listed at $11,999 and they love to try and throw Freight/PDI $650 and their lovely Doc fee of $195.

Dealers if they know your going to be a good customers and are planning to purchase parts from them are usually willing to help out a bit. I.e $750-$1000 off the price.

Anyways, any pricing intel on your end and also who shared the eta with you.

Have a good weekend! :cheers:
 
Wadzy said:
I spoke to Canadian Husky dealer today and they have confirmed that there FE delivery is delayed until Dec/Jan.
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So glad I got a nice 2016 a couple months back so I could enjoy some riding during nice weather! I had to ride NOW and it definitely doesn't make sense to buy a motorcycle in the middle of the winter! I haven't had a bike in 6 years so the 2016 was just like a brand new model for me, hehe. Plus I think the 16 at least looks better than the 17. I've been having fun riding an average of 4 days a week NOW where otherwise I would be waiting until spring to ride and like I said, I've been bike-less for 6 years and have had the itch real bad for a bike for the last 2 years and just couldn't wait any longer, lol. I'm really happy with my 16 but I'm curious to read the reviews and see some YouTube videos on the new model. Actually, I plan on at least going to the dealer to sit on them when they arrive.... Who knows, if I like it enough maybe I'll trade in.....
 
Oh and, I just was wondering, all the 501s are road legal now? As in, there's no separate Enduro and Dual Sport anymore?
 
That is correct. There will be no S model. All FE. The cool part is that there was never a 450 S (at least stateside) model. So now there's a 350, 450, and 501.
 
I'd be inclined to buy a second bike if they made a 250 or 300cc 2-stoke street legal bike (based on a MX-like bike platform like the FE that is....)
 
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