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  1. M

    replacing bad ecu/black box bike is now spitting

    I recently bought a Husaberg fe350 from 2013. The battery that was on the motorcycle was bad. one day I was preparing to go on a ride so I set up the charger to fast charge which fried my ECU, now I have installed a new ECU and a new battery but the ECU is from an sx250, the bike has a hard time...
  2. D

    FS 650 '04 misfire & bad idle

    Hey guys! My name is Alex, I'm 30 years old and living in Austria. Until now, I've joined the German forum from the moment I purchased my '04 FS 650. It's been nearly 5 years now and as time goes by, I've faced a few issues with the bike yet, but I could handle them myself with a little...
  3. R

    2014 FE350 - The good, the bad, the ugly

    Hello all, new to the forums. Looking at possibly picking up a fairly lightly used 2014 FE350, 50hrs on the bike Looks to be in mint condition. Are there anythings to be wary of for this model year. No kick starter, but do the electric starters work really well, so no real concern...
  4. V

    FE 570 2011 bad cold starts and stalling

    Hello, i bought FE 570 in quite good shape with 180hrs ridden mostly on road, but it wasnt starting very good when cold, after heating up it started very good. I rode it about 150km to home and it stalled 3 times. First after about 30km then after around 20 and then just before my town. It...
  5. D

    How bad could it be

    98 fc 501. Well I was up and running good after putting the motor together, had about 3 hours on it, took it apart for cleaning and pictures to post and started it up and went up the it sputtered and died. Got it home and notice I was leaking oil from flrwheel cover a and every place where...
  6. S

    rear wheel bearing bad?

    I am trying to determine the condition of the rear hub bearings? Should the rear bushing be hard to turn? Mine are. shouldn't the bushing drop out when the wheel is removed? The bushings on my 990 fall out and roll away by themselves.
  7. M

    is this a bad sign?

    had a full engine rebuild 14 hours ago this is the 3rd oil change
  8. K2Berg

    New Sound... Similar to car exhaust going bad

    Hello, Have a new, unnerving sound which reminds me of a car with exhaust going bad. Does not occur in neural standing still. Hear it in gear as RPM's rise and coming from the front. 180 hour or so on original cam belt and tensioner. Mostly city riding with an occasional run out to the...
  9. C

    Bad Starter Clutch? (99 FE501e)

    Hello, I just picked up my first bike and first Burger. I have what appears to be common: Bad E starter. Word on the street is: Get parts from Taffmeisters. Replace Starter Sprauge + spring Replace Decompressor spring. Replace Starter clutch??? Then I get confused. Not all of Taffy's parts...
  10. P

    Bad Autodecomp ? (FE 450 2005)

    Hi guys ! I´ve had my Enduro-Berg for about a year and ran ~40 hurs on this little princess. Prior to me it had been overhauled with bearings and so. Previus owner said that thah was done just before 200 hours 200 was the meters reading for the milage and 74 was for the hours when I got...
  11. S

    Bad stator or bad cdi/coil ?

    I have a husaberg fe501 -02 with no spark. i have checked the stator and i get readings: Red - black 3100ohm 17 Volt Green - black 165 ohm 0.3 volt Should be ok? where do i connect the blue wire? to ground? Cdi readings: from sparkplug cap to black wire 8000ohm cap - red nothing cap - green...
  12. S

    Bad news, Good news!!

    Well, live and learn - Yesterday morning, after assurances from the owner of the FE650 in Grants Pass OR that his bike was labeled in conformity with CA's street-legal emissions standards and should therefore license easily, my wife and I jumped in the car, trailer in tow, and headed North on...
  13. Tamas

    Having a bad day

    Hi guys! Was doing some maintenance work and first I saw that on on the screws near the kickstart shaft had been decapitated :)), struggled for 3 hours to get it out and after that I dropped the new one inside the engine struggled for an additional hour to get that one out with a magnet...
  14. K

    1999 FE501, Really bad bogging! Help!

    my buddy has recently rebuilt my engine and now we have a problem that we can't figure out for the life of us. the bike idles perfectly, but in first and up, as soon as you give it gas it bogs out. im not talking about bogging and dying, as soon as you start moving its got a gnarly spudder and...
  15. F

    09 570 runs bad

    Hi every body. I'm new here and am having some issues with my 09 fe 570. It just started idling bad. I figured out that it is super lean at idle runs fine above idle. It is not flashing any codes on fI light. sometimes for no reason it will idle just fine. Does anybody now what the fuel pressure...
  16. cypher

    Bad news about Chris White

    In my pass time of keeping an eye on whats going on around the world i've just seen thanks to Fritz that Chris white, who those of us who were at the First Gunnison ride met and who is an all around nice guy as well as a hot shot suspension guy has had some really bad luck. i've copied the...
  17. S

    03 fs650 bad missfire

    hello all, newbie to the site :D recently bought a 2003 fs650e as a non runner due to bad stator, stator was replaced with a rewound unit and the bike fired right up and ran great for around 3 hours use. The next morning i got the bike out, fired her up and went on my way, after around 10mins...
  18. M

    Using my 08 FE450 as a dual sport - bad idea??

    Hi I'm thinking of making my berg street legal and using it to dual sport. not as a daily commuter, more like 10 or so time a year (!!) of 1 day trips - mostly gravel and 2-tracks with the occasional payment to and from the truck. In the future I would like to maybe use it for a week long trip...
  19. T

    Good news bad news boken femur

    well i did it last weekend at. the juniper dunes is WA state. the dunes are half dirt and half sand. the trails through the dirt hills are just well traveled and no real rules, infact you can ride anywhere you like as long as you tread lightly. so while we were waiting for the rest of our group...
  20. E

    Bad hot starting

    I have a husaberg FC550 SM with a keihin FCR41mm on it. Cold it starts like a charm (2 kicks, no choke needed), but when hot i almost cant start it... Anyone have some tips for me? I have checked my valves by the 1/6th turn method and will post my carb settings tonight. I also have a Sparks...