2009 FE 570:
Akro slip on.
Fan Kit.
Frame rail guards.
Husaberg Skid Plate.
Trip Master Switch.
Map Switch.
Motor Chain Guard.
Wheel sticker set.
Wash set (air box cover, and fuel connection covers).
Husaberg Tall Seat.
Acerbis Rally II Hand guards.
Scott’s shark fin disc guard.
Scott’s steering damper sub mount.
Scott’s stainless oil filter.
I purchased my bike from Bike Barn in Medford Oregon. A big kudos to them for their excellent customer service and getting my bike set up for me.
First Ride:
I had made a bit of a road trip of buying my bike, and was visiting relatives as I made my way home over the Christmas Holiday. My first stop was in Benbow, CA, to see some friends of mine who live there. They own a fair amount of property there and gave me the keys to a 700 acre parcel to go and try my bike out on. The riding on this parcel was composed of twisty old logging roads that had a fair amount of over growth, and it was cold and rainy when I did my ride.
Since the weather was bad I had been traveling with the air box cover on for obvious reasons. I popped on the air filter and hit the button and the bike started right up. I let it idle until the radiators were hot and took off up the unfamiliar road to try out the new bike and explore. The ground was pretty muddy, and had a fair amount of stones in it. The bike never spun the rear tire as I tooled around with the map switch set on standard, the stock Bridgestone’s worked really good in these conditions. Mainly I was just cruising around on these old roads just putting the first hour on the motor for the initial break in. Early on it was obvious that this bike was very flickable from side to side, in that regard it feels like a 125. I did get it up to speed a few times and it tracked straight with no trace of head shake.
After the first hour I came back to the truck for a cup of coffee and raised the bars up a ways to suit my preference. I went out again for another half hour and the new bar position was much more comfortable.
My initial observations on the bike were as follows: It’s wider through the pegs than my 04, you don’t notice this at all until you stand up. The clutch pull is a bit stiffer than my 04 or 01, the action was smooth but a little grabby, probably b/c I’m just not used to it. The tall seat is as hard as a rock, but, wider than my 04 seat. The fuel injection is spot on, no flat spots, hiccups, bogs or other funny business, and power delivery was very smooth. The rear fender, without the tail light piece that they take off when they come into the country (see stupid federal laws), is too short, and I had a nice stripe of mud up my back when I finished.
I pulled the air cleaner and put the wash cover back on and headed to my friends house, gave the bike a good rinsing to get the mud off and called it a day. I was very anxious to get out to my usual sand box at Lucerne Valley to give it a proper ride.
I spent the next couple of days at my friends place and enjoyed touring around the area. I had never seen a giant Redwood before, so they took me over to see the Founders tree which is 347 feet tall, pretty darn impressive, then, had an excellent lunch at Gills by the sea. The next day I was off to visit my Aunt in Diamond Springs CA. I used to spend a lot of time in this area and Placerville when I was young, so it was cool to cruise around town and see how things had changed. Then it was off to San Pablo for Christmas with my cousins, then home on the 26th. All in all, a good road trip of 1500+ miles.
After I got back home I changed the oil and installed the Scott’s stainless oil filter. There was very little debris on the magnet, however there was some junk on the oil pump pick up screen, don’t know what it was, but it was not metal. There was also just one tiny piece of metal on the scavenging oil screen on the head. Otherwise the oil came out clean.
Then I dropped my bike off at Scott’s for them to use as a mule to make the damper tower mount. While they had it apart I had them install the sub mount, since I would run that in the future anyway, and I wanted the bars raised too. With the sub mount you are relegated to position 3 or 4 on the bars and currently the bars are set at position 3.
I also picked up a shark fin for the rear disc, and 4 bottles of Motul 3000 10W-40 oil to use during the rest of the break in period.
After I got the bike back I set about taking the slack out of the throttle cables, which meant I had to take the fuel tank off to get to the throttle body. It was at this point that I realized that with the fan kit installed I couldn’t get the fuel tank off with out taking off the Akro slip on, and removing the bolts for the subframe so I could lay the fuel tank back to get the fuel tank off. This was easy so no worries there.
While I had the tank I off, and after I adjusted the throttle cables, I checked all the nuts and bolts, clamps, screws etc.. underneath and found none loose.
After I put the tank back on and set about torquing the sub frame truss bolts I found that the center bolts could not be torqued properly as there is an aluminum bar embedded in the fuel tank that these center bolts go into, and it would spin slightly as I brought the opposing sides’ bolt up to torque. So, I had to go the parts store and buy another T45 torx bit to back up the other side as I torqued the bolts. The bolts were loctited from the factory, but, on the center bolts, I decided I didn’t want to have them loctited as some members were unable to remove these bolts, so I cleaned up the threads with a tap and die and gave them a liberal coat of anti seize on the threads and on the angled portion of the pan head screw as well. The other pan head bolts I loctited before tightening.
After I got everything back together I filled the fuel tank and checked the static sag, it was at 40mm’s so I reset that to 34mm’s. I did follow the manual and checked the spring preload on the shock first and it was set at 10mm, so I added 2mm of preload to the shock and that gave 34mm of static sag, which was close enough for me at this point. I didn’t have anyone around to help me check the rider sag, so I’ll have to get that to you later. (I’m pretty sure I’ll be going to stiffer springs in the future anyway) I also set about setting the compression and rebound clickers, and high speed compression adjuster to the “standardâ€Â
Akro slip on.
Fan Kit.
Frame rail guards.
Husaberg Skid Plate.
Trip Master Switch.
Map Switch.
Motor Chain Guard.
Wheel sticker set.
Wash set (air box cover, and fuel connection covers).
Husaberg Tall Seat.
Acerbis Rally II Hand guards.
Scott’s shark fin disc guard.
Scott’s steering damper sub mount.
Scott’s stainless oil filter.
I purchased my bike from Bike Barn in Medford Oregon. A big kudos to them for their excellent customer service and getting my bike set up for me.
First Ride:
I had made a bit of a road trip of buying my bike, and was visiting relatives as I made my way home over the Christmas Holiday. My first stop was in Benbow, CA, to see some friends of mine who live there. They own a fair amount of property there and gave me the keys to a 700 acre parcel to go and try my bike out on. The riding on this parcel was composed of twisty old logging roads that had a fair amount of over growth, and it was cold and rainy when I did my ride.
Since the weather was bad I had been traveling with the air box cover on for obvious reasons. I popped on the air filter and hit the button and the bike started right up. I let it idle until the radiators were hot and took off up the unfamiliar road to try out the new bike and explore. The ground was pretty muddy, and had a fair amount of stones in it. The bike never spun the rear tire as I tooled around with the map switch set on standard, the stock Bridgestone’s worked really good in these conditions. Mainly I was just cruising around on these old roads just putting the first hour on the motor for the initial break in. Early on it was obvious that this bike was very flickable from side to side, in that regard it feels like a 125. I did get it up to speed a few times and it tracked straight with no trace of head shake.
After the first hour I came back to the truck for a cup of coffee and raised the bars up a ways to suit my preference. I went out again for another half hour and the new bar position was much more comfortable.
My initial observations on the bike were as follows: It’s wider through the pegs than my 04, you don’t notice this at all until you stand up. The clutch pull is a bit stiffer than my 04 or 01, the action was smooth but a little grabby, probably b/c I’m just not used to it. The tall seat is as hard as a rock, but, wider than my 04 seat. The fuel injection is spot on, no flat spots, hiccups, bogs or other funny business, and power delivery was very smooth. The rear fender, without the tail light piece that they take off when they come into the country (see stupid federal laws), is too short, and I had a nice stripe of mud up my back when I finished.
I pulled the air cleaner and put the wash cover back on and headed to my friends house, gave the bike a good rinsing to get the mud off and called it a day. I was very anxious to get out to my usual sand box at Lucerne Valley to give it a proper ride.
I spent the next couple of days at my friends place and enjoyed touring around the area. I had never seen a giant Redwood before, so they took me over to see the Founders tree which is 347 feet tall, pretty darn impressive, then, had an excellent lunch at Gills by the sea. The next day I was off to visit my Aunt in Diamond Springs CA. I used to spend a lot of time in this area and Placerville when I was young, so it was cool to cruise around town and see how things had changed. Then it was off to San Pablo for Christmas with my cousins, then home on the 26th. All in all, a good road trip of 1500+ miles.
After I got back home I changed the oil and installed the Scott’s stainless oil filter. There was very little debris on the magnet, however there was some junk on the oil pump pick up screen, don’t know what it was, but it was not metal. There was also just one tiny piece of metal on the scavenging oil screen on the head. Otherwise the oil came out clean.
Then I dropped my bike off at Scott’s for them to use as a mule to make the damper tower mount. While they had it apart I had them install the sub mount, since I would run that in the future anyway, and I wanted the bars raised too. With the sub mount you are relegated to position 3 or 4 on the bars and currently the bars are set at position 3.
I also picked up a shark fin for the rear disc, and 4 bottles of Motul 3000 10W-40 oil to use during the rest of the break in period.
After I got the bike back I set about taking the slack out of the throttle cables, which meant I had to take the fuel tank off to get to the throttle body. It was at this point that I realized that with the fan kit installed I couldn’t get the fuel tank off with out taking off the Akro slip on, and removing the bolts for the subframe so I could lay the fuel tank back to get the fuel tank off. This was easy so no worries there.
While I had the tank I off, and after I adjusted the throttle cables, I checked all the nuts and bolts, clamps, screws etc.. underneath and found none loose.
After I put the tank back on and set about torquing the sub frame truss bolts I found that the center bolts could not be torqued properly as there is an aluminum bar embedded in the fuel tank that these center bolts go into, and it would spin slightly as I brought the opposing sides’ bolt up to torque. So, I had to go the parts store and buy another T45 torx bit to back up the other side as I torqued the bolts. The bolts were loctited from the factory, but, on the center bolts, I decided I didn’t want to have them loctited as some members were unable to remove these bolts, so I cleaned up the threads with a tap and die and gave them a liberal coat of anti seize on the threads and on the angled portion of the pan head screw as well. The other pan head bolts I loctited before tightening.
After I got everything back together I filled the fuel tank and checked the static sag, it was at 40mm’s so I reset that to 34mm’s. I did follow the manual and checked the spring preload on the shock first and it was set at 10mm, so I added 2mm of preload to the shock and that gave 34mm of static sag, which was close enough for me at this point. I didn’t have anyone around to help me check the rider sag, so I’ll have to get that to you later. (I’m pretty sure I’ll be going to stiffer springs in the future anyway) I also set about setting the compression and rebound clickers, and high speed compression adjuster to the “standardâ€Â