Thoughts on the 2011 FE 570 S

Well, Ive put some hours on this bike and have some comments. Stock gearing is ridiculous, so I dropped the front sprocket down a tooth. I don't need to go 90mph on street or dirt. The seat is a 2X4. The clutch is worthless until the engine is hot, stalls when shifted into 1st every time when cold. The rear fender extension, a topic unto itself, is garbage! The very first time I took this bike onto the dirt, a relatively smooth fire road, the turn signals flapped loose held on only by their wires. The right one melted, the left one broke and than I had to return to the street and use hand signals to be legal. Some "Dual Sport". I will say Tri-County Powersports made good with free replacement signals. The second time in the dirt, same area, things held together longer, barely. Turn signals gone, broken and the black fender extension cracked and broken at the turn signal mounts. Trash. Husqvarna has the sense to
reinforce it's fender extension with steel or aluminum bracketing on their Dual Sports. For $11,000.00 I expected more.
On the other side of the coin, it handles like a dream and the engine is incredible. I "ordered", no free replacement this time, a FE 570 enduro fender and intend to work out some tail-brake light combo that won't brake the fender extension and mount the turn signals closer to the seat.
To be continued......

blimey,wtf is that rear light/ holder all about,is that how they come over there,im not surprised it gets ripped off.make sure you avoid them mollhills mate

You are simply experiencing what every street-legal KTM owner has experienced.
The HUGE stock turn-sginals, mandated by street-legal requirements, are too heavy and too large to survive very long on a dirt bike.

What you need are the SicAss Racing, flush-mount, LED turn signals. They are awesome, very bright, and survive extremely well if mounted properly.

Here they are mounted on my 2010 Husaberg's FE 390 fender:



And what the finished installation looks like on a 2008 KTM 450 EXC-R w/ the Euro fender and tail-light:



You can reach Sicass Racing here: http://www.sicassracing.com/

Hope this helped! E-Ticket

Thanks for the info and link. I don't know how well those small turn signals would go over here in California,
legally. Still I don't know how to overcome the tendency of fender failure. Oh well, hopefully the enduro fender
will work with a tail-brake light combo.

cant you put the euro fender on or is that what you refere as the enduro fender.also pete m on here has got some reel small turn signals that wont get in the way.maybe if he is about he can advise on them

fakesy said:

cant you put the euro fender on or is that what you refere as the enduro fender.also pete m on here has got some reel small turn signals that wont get in the way.maybe if he is about he can advise on them

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What we refer to as the "Euro Fender" is the one that comes stock on the 2010 FE models.

I also have the SicAss Racing, flush-mount, LED turn signals on my FE450. They work awesome.. I'm not making an excuse for the OEM blinkers but it seems that legal blinkers on true off road machines just don't mix that well, never have never will..

Bought a FE 570 last week. First time off road today had my rear turn signals dangling then lost one. Discovered the black sub-fender broke at the turn signal mounts and the tail light broke the upper fender while flapping about. Talk about a disappointment for a highly acclaimed dual sport. Purchasing two pair of flush mount turn signals now looking for an alternate source for the two piece rear fenders. Any recommendations?

Barshoe said:

Thanks for the info and link. I don't know how well those small turn signals would go over here in California,
legally. Still I don't know how to overcome the tendency of fender failure. Oh well, hopefully the enduro fender
will work with a tail-brake light combo.

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Hey Barshoe,

I wouldn't worry too much about the "Kalifornia" aspect of those turn signals...........I have seen a lot of, if not most of all dual sport bikes with those flush mount signals. I went on a pretty lengthy ride yesterday with a large group of riders, I'd say there were at least 8 dual sport bikes of the 25 strong group and they all had these flush mount turn signals.

In fact, a lot of the sport bikes I have seen have some sort of alternative turn indicators. The DOT spec is 18" between the signals.

As E ticket stated the LED signals are very bright, and I think that most law enforcement officers would only notice whether or not there was a noticeable turn indicator.

As for the gearing............ I believe that your bike came with the 13/38 (2.92 ratio), I am sure that this has to do with some EPA reg for noise, and IMHO is incredibly too tall.

I am currently running the 13/52 (4:1 ratio) stock set up on my FE 570, this gearing is probably a little short for dual sport usage, but, is great for off road and will still do 96 mph fully tapped out. It cruise comfortably at 60 mph without revving too hard.

I had tried a 14/52 (3.71 ratio) set up originally (the 09's came with a chain that was too long and had to be cut after about 7 hours) to lengthen the gearing, but, found that it was way too tall, and I was never using 6th gear.

Next I tried the 13/50 (3.86), and found that it worked pretty good for most desert work, but, 1st was too tall for the really technical stuff, but, cruising in the open or on fire roads had a noticeable reduction in motor spin at 60-70 mph.

When I replaced chain and sprockets, I tried a 14/53 (3.78 ratio ) in attempt to: increase chain wheel size on both ends, and, split the baby so to speak in regards to final drive gear ratio. This required the stock length chain (09's only) and put the rear axle towards the back of the swing arm slot. Well I over thought myself on this one as this lengthened the wheel base, which resulted in less front end grip, and made the bike not want to turn. I also had to use a dremel tool to make room for the Supersprox rear sprocket in my TM Designs rear chain slider.

So, as stated above I am back to running the 13/52 set up, and it is, for my type of riding, perfect. Yeah you have to row the box a little sometimes, but, it will lug better too. And it still goes way faster than I want to fall off at! The main thing is that it tightened the box back up to the stock set up, there is a gear for every situation, whether paddling through really technical stuff, or blasting across the occasional dry lake bed.......in my limited racing experience on this bike, is the fastest bike out in the desert. The best part is that I am able to make use of all the gears in the box, to have the right gear for every situation.

Dale

E-Ticket, thanks for the recommendation and link for those LED signal lights. What did you mean by "if mounted properly?"

I love mine. Over 2300 miles on it now and a lot of that, probably 70+ percent, is off road. I haven't lost a turn signal yet? The only thing I can think of is that I mounted a Wolfman fender bag right behind the rear seat to carry my tool kit in. Maybe that dampens the fender flap, because I've ridden a lot of washboard roads, deep sand whoops, etc. On my last ride, my riding buddy was clocking me at an average of 60 mph across deep sand whoops for around a five mile stretch, so I wouldn't say that was because I was babying the bike.

Everyone I ride with does comment that the rear fender flaps like a flag in the breeze? I just was looking at this area, because we are planning a couple thousand mile adventure ride that will require more luggage on the back of the bike. I plan on supporting this area by using the two rearmost bolts off of the frame under the seat. Looking at the frame in this area, I think with a slightly longer bolt, and manufacturing a nice bracket, I can run a couple of steel rods through the fender and back to the tailight area under the stock plastic support and connect the steel to the stock support mounts for the taillight to add some ridgidity back there. I'll post pictures of what I come up with, but I think that when I'm finished, the support bracket will be completely invisible unless you remove the seat and see the attachments to the sub frame. I figure I'll have a half a days work in the support.

Other than that, the bike has been great except the headlamp. The headlamp is a piece of junk. I actually ride at night, so I hate this headlamp, and if you see my other posts, the Trail Tech unit is not a good option. I'm working on another fix with HID capabilities.

So far, here is my list of added on parts:
Dropped front sprocket one tooth,
70 Degree tank,
Wolfman tank bag, pannieers, and rear fender bag,
Heated grips,
Ram GPS mount,
Hard wired Garmin 60CS on bars,
Enduro Engineering (EE) handguards,
EE clutch slave cylinder protector,
Trail Tech power selector, basically I only use this to soften the throttle response on twisty single tracks so I can keep the front wheel down,
I modified the exhaust can to get rid of the restrictor,
Removed the charcoal cannister,
Rotax Fuel injection in line fuel filter,
One new battery (the original had a dead cell),
Replaced both kick stand springs and the little bracket they attach to (the bracket had broken and both springs went missing). This was a 28$ repair that Husaberg's warranty evidently wouldn't cover,
Aluminum skid plate,
Aluminum pipe guard, and
Got rid of the antibackfire screen in the airbox.

Maintenance has been fine, original valve check was within spec, but two valves were at the outside limits of the spec, so I re-shimmed them to the middle values of specs, Oil changes have been great, no metal fragments on the magnets or screens, i cut my filters, and I found very minimal metal in the filter (even on the first change). I did my friend's Husquvarna TE-310's first oil change with him, and he had a lot more metal debris in his filter than the Husaberg did. Other than that, three sets of tires, chain adjustments, and four bulbs, threee headlamps and on taillamp bulb. I think I've solveed the headlamp problem, I installed a cut off switch for highbeam, and when I get off road, I turn the headlamp off. Almost a thousand miles since this headlamp mod, and no more new bulbs needed yet.

I can't think of much else to say about the bike, except i love the way it rides and runs. I'm having a lot of fun with it. Hopefully my rear fender support will solve an issue there before I have problems with that area of the bike.