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Longest ride on your husa??

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SmaRTrxxv

Joined Jul 2011
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Denmark
Hi...

I've bought a FS650E '05 model.. awesome bike..

I use it for funrides and spinning around in the city ..not very long.. up to approx 50 km (30 miles) away from home..
I thought taking it out for a longer ride.. up to 300 km (200 miles) away from home.. to a bike meeting
I'll offcourse stay on top of my oil changes and valve checks..

Do you have thoughts on that? ....
and what's the longest ride(s) you've done on your husa? And how did it go?

Thx
 
Back when I had my 501 in SM spec I regularly went on 100 mile rides and very occasionally did 150 - 160 mile rides. To be honest, the sort of rides they were I was knackered after them and didn't want to go any further! But I see no probs with going further if you want to! The bike should be fine just give it a full service and check over before hand!

Ben
 
I do regular 400-500 km rides on my 2005 fs650e and there's no problem. the only problem I run into is my *** going NUMB. just change the oil and check the valves before and after you come back.
 
Great answers... :cheers:

Helithumper: what's your pace/cruising speed on those rides?
 
6 hours 190 miles with a lunch break and fuel stops is the longest so far, mostly on very twisty paved roads. Gutz tall soft seat foam FTW...
 
130 miles in CO with cheeseberger the day before F3. We did the Alpine loop. It took about 8 hours, but I'm sure he could do it in 3 or 4. Most of that 130 miles was on one wheel for him.
I think he has the record though. He Iron manned the 2007 Baja 1000 1296 miles.
 
This summer i did a 1800km 6 day trip. bike was running for 30h on this trip two oil changes @ 15h each.
my bike has 250h on it sice last rebuild. so you can go far on these things.

The berg was perfect, Other bikes on this trip was a 2006 ktm 525 with 500h on the clock, DRZ 400, ktm 690, ktm 450, wr 450 and another ktm 525. Which lost a rod but was fixed on the trip at a hydro plant by the engineers there. he only lost two days of the trip, he got the parts sent from Reykjavik.

Regards
 
I once made the mistake of doin 2x 240km trips in one day, mostly on the seal with a small amount of gravel but I was stopping every 20 mins towards the end of the return trip to give my *** a rest.... it certainly was NOT numb.

My usual rides are 200-300 km a day skidding around on gravel roads with the smallest amount of black top thrown in, but to be honest, after a years break it took several rides to get the fittness back up (or is it tuffening the ***) to a suitable level to be able to handle 200 kms at a time.

The pace is usually dictated by my mates on their rice burning trailers, I gotta keep stopping to w8 4 them (well thats my story an Im sticking to it).
 
sorry for taking so long to answer. When I go for long rides my average speed would be 130kph on highways and 90kph on backroards and twisties.
 
My longest ride,
an unsupported ride through the Canning Stock Route 1800km 8 days (desert) 1100 sand dunes up to 16 metres high
Longest distance I travelled on the CSR without fuel stop- 750km
Started with 53 litres of fuel on board, all camping gear and equipment ,tools , spares ,food etc all carried on the bike
added and extra 80kg of weight to the bike.

Handling- absoloutely no control over the bike in deep sand ruts and sand dunes under 20kmh
Turning- extremely poor in corners, kept overshooting them to start with, once in a sand rut ,thats where it stayed
Braking- 40% capacity

Well must go
 
Vegas to Reno last year. I believe it was about 500 miles. We abused the bike on that one with no oil change, no air filter change and no tire change. The rear tire was almost completely bald at the finish line and I had a crash because of it. I waited until I was right in front of a bunch of spectators and dropped it in a corner in first gear only about a mile from the finish line. The air filter was not the dirtiest I've seen. It helped that we were running about 8th on course all day. We figured that we'd swap an air filter when the bike began to run rich, but she just kept running perfectly all day. I've been religious about oil and air filters since just to make up for all this.

By comparison, I raced a Honda XR650R in 2006 in the V to R ironman and had to change the air filter 3 times! Plus the bike was just slow compared to the mighty Berg.

The bike was a '08 Berg 550 by the way.
 
750 km. One day rally. Gravel roads, fire roads, two track and atv trails. Half way through I added about 100 ml oil. I did not change the air filter during the ride. Bike was perfect for the ride. my butt was still numb two days later.

2001 f650fe
 
I just rand 380 miles of everything from two track, fire roads, to pavement yesterday, I don't know if that is my longest ride, but it is close. I love the versatility of this bike. It's as at home on a single track trail as it is at 70 MPH on the highway.
 
Just under 700 miles on my old '03 FE400 (RIP)... Everything from single track, ORV route, fire roads, and regular roads/highway. Most was single track and ORV.
 
This July a friend and I rode 1,700 plus miles on our Husabergs. My bike is a 2010 FX 450 and his a 2010 FE 450. The miles were a combination of single tracks, ORV trails, snowmobile trails, two tracks, dirt roads, and pavement only when needed. Perhaps I will post a ride report with more information.
 
Last June, 1150 km's off-road with camping luggage, in a non-competition rally called Midsummer 1000. It is a three days event.

We drive to it and back without trailer, so add 300 km's of high speed highway riding.

My 390 performed flawlessly, although it might have been easier on the gearbox with a cush drive rear wheel.

Perhaps I'll invest a little bit in the same.
 
Noppy said:
Last June, 1150 km's off-road with camping luggage, in a non-competition rally called Midsummer 1000. It is a three days event.

We drive to it and back without trailer, so add 300 km's of high speed highway riding.

My 390 performed flawlessly, although it might have been easier on the gearbox with a cush drive rear wheel.

Perhaps I'll invest a little bit in the same.
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I know what you mean about carrying the camping luggage and all of the other gear such as tools, tubes, etc.

As far as a cush drive rear wheel, you may want to look into a Kush sprocket. I have a KTM 525 EXC with a 160 rear tire and I use a Kush sprocket on it. I was amazed how much you can feel it working on pavement. I have around 6,000 miles on it and it still looks like new.

This winter I plan to get the suspension reworked on my Husaberg for my weight plus some for carrying gear. I was amazed how well it performed for being so over weighted on the big ride in July.
 
245 mile trailride in one day last September, the ride was cut short due to one of the group falling and breaking his collar bone.
 

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