• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Thinking a 501s might be in my future, BUT......

I am very happy with my Fe 501s. I am not sure if the 2017 Husky will share the same the same upgrades and redesign as the 2017 500 ktm which is claimed to be 18lbs lighter than the 16. I kknow the 2013- 16 KTM/Husqvarna has survived the test of time and proven very reliable. Don't let the 4cs closed chamber Forks scare you. I will admit they're not the smoothest in a lot of situations however they actually do a pretty damn good job. I have found there is a difference between feel and actual control. I have hit some scary obstacles including some sharp edged deep ruts and drop out ravines as well as a few very large rocks at incredible speeds and have not experienced any deflection or actual loss of control. They do their job and can be improved. I found draining a few cc's of oil out of each fork leg and playing with the rebound adjustment has really made a difference in how these Forks work I'm running almost twice as much rebound damping as I am compression through the clickers this is helped. These forks are not perfect however I have definitely experienced worse and now there are quite a few tuners that have reasonable fixes to make these Forks quite plush. I don't think you can go wrong with the white bike good luck
 
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