So I rode a 570 :)

Wellllll ...

There's a 2010 model 570 for sale locally with 35 hours on the clock. It's got a 70-degree subframe tank and mapping switch! Plus a header guard and what look like aftermarket handlebar clamps with vibration damping, Bib Mousse in the rear tire, plus some other odds and ends. Basically a bike that was bought new by someone who knew what they were after!

It looks quite clean and well-maintained, and there is an oil change logbook which I trust to be correct based on the rest of the picture.

Basically a good catch. Very good catch. The price is hard to gauge due to taxes/tariffs and a small local market, but if I were to import one, I'd have to find one for €4500 / $6000 at most to end up paying the same price. From the prices I've seen, that's quite low for a low-hours bike with these accessories.

And so. I test drove it just now. These things are magnificent pieces of design. Everything is ... easy ... effective ... including giving it gas and ripping forward!! That is also easy!!

However, I missed something from the other 'Bergs I've ridden, something that I cannot quite put a finger on. Those were '05-'08 bikes, 450, 550, and 650. In the '570 I missed some wildness, a wild color, the wicked tip of an iceberg of demonic possession. I didn't fall in love in 10 seconds like I did with the others. I did leave my heart with it, but it was a slower process - not head-over-heels, but I still remember its presence and I wish I were somewhere over the hills riding it the night. But! Something wasn't there ...

I'm now trying to determine whether this particular bike right now is just set up such that its Husaberg heart of groomed brutality is just sitting behind a slight veil - maybe a touch of numbness from the mousse, its suspension set up for someone else who preferred a diferent feel than I, the restrictor still in the exhaust, etc.. Maybe too, the bike just feels so good and right that you have a bigger comfort zone at first but when you've it for more than 10 minutes you start to be able to reach out, grab hold of the Berg Madness and shred reality with it.

Or the 70-degree bikes are just slightly more sensible, and I am and will be a lover of the previous generation?

The question: If I set the '570 up correctly - not by buying much extra stuff or replacing significant pieces but just setting it up - will then I be laughing inside my helmet as I was on the previous-gen bikes? If freed, will the spirit of the 570 reach out of the airbox and crunch my face into a grin?

They are slightly shy on the grin factor compared to the pre 09. In the aggressive map setting they run ok by comparison. What they lack in brutality they more than make up for in reliability, lack of needed maintenance and rideability.

i like how its very easy to ride slow through technical stuff, but will howl on command. each to their own but i'm sure it will grow on you if you buy it.

It was a totally interesting experience. I'm pretty confident it's the Right Bike - I'll just have to get a previous-gen bike as well at some point

In retrospect, it's almost shocking how much sense it made to ride. I'd never even seen it before and it immediately clicked.

It's hard to place what the difference was. It seemed like chassis / suspension / geometry more than the motor. It might simply have been that the previous Husabergs have been set up rather stiff - come to think of it, the previous owners of those were rather heavy AFAIK and/or the bikes were set up for riding in sand - and this one was set up rather soft-ish, the current owner told me.

Is the chassis itself about as stiff between the two generations? (I mean with respect to flex / tautness, not suspension and damping.)

How will you feel if it was no longer for sale? A low hr clean 570 is as rare as the dodo bird. ;-)

Haha! Excellent point

I've started to miss her more and more ... I look for her face in a crowd ... recurring dreams of desperately searching for her and almost finding ... wake up and realize she isn't there ...

do want :bounce:

It's less of a "does it suck? should I buy?" - more of a technical question - what are the design decisions that feel "brutal" - but oh so good! - in the previous generation? How can I make the 570 angrier?

Hi All,

570's are like what I imagine taking Kylie Minogue to bed would be like, look great, perform well no special maintenance and you'd be happy to stay for the long term.

The pre 09 bikes (particularly the 650's) would be like taking Pink to bed, look great, perform well, occasionally scare the living daylights out of you when you are least expecting it and yes require a whole lot more maintenance to keep her running sweet.

Just keep them separated in the shed !!

Anthonys4691

I'm no engine builder, Berg expert, but it sure seems the 570 is very timing ********, leaned fuel, and starved for air. I think if you shove a FX450 cam in there and tweak the TPS, and open up the seat to let it breathe, it would scream.

anthonys4691 said:

Hi All,

570's are like what I imagine taking Kylie Minogue to bed would be like, look great, perform well no special maintenance and you'd be happy to stay for the long term. The pre 09 bikes (particularly the 650's) would be like taking Pink to bed, look great, perform well, occasionally scare the living daylights out of you when you are least expecting it and yes require a whole lot more maintenance to keep her running sweet. Just keep them separated in the shed !! Anthonys4691

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the shed? 8O c'ome on, the least you could do is give kylie and pink a room in the house, just at different ends of the house... :mrgreen:

anthonys4691 said:

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The pre 09 bikes (particularly the 650's) would be like taking Pink to bed, look great, perform well, occasionally scare the living daylights out of you when you are least expecting it and yes require a whole lot more maintenance to keep her running sweet.

..........Anthonys4691

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What extra maintenance? My FE650 is just a dirt bike that thrills every time 8O

... closer and closer ...

My 650 gives me giggles every time I ride it. I'll take my chances with Pink

So should I do it? Sell the expensive record player and the collector's edition guitar I never play, have money be uncomfortably tight for 2-3 months, and get the 570?

I think I should ...

You're asking a rhetorical question right?

Just in case it's an actual question...with out hesitation buy it!!!!

Do it. No new ones are coming out on the market anymore. Easier to find a new record player in the future.

It is somewhere between a real and a rhetorical question

I do appreciate the answers! They are close to what I am thinking. (btw - Whatever I do, I myself am fully responsible of course - I won't come nagging on you if I don't like it! )

Formalities now remain.

anthonys4691 said:

Hi All,

570's are like what I imagine taking Kylie Minogue to bed would be like, look great, perform well no special maintenance and you'd be happy to stay for the long term.

The pre 09 bikes (particularly the 650's) would be like taking Pink to bed, look great, perform well, occasionally scare the living daylights out of you when you are least expecting it and yes require a whole lot more maintenance to keep her running sweet.

Just keep them separated in the shed !!

Anthonys4691

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Hahahahaha :mrgreen: