Vanessa

Now I know who to contact if I need cat food in a hurry.

I read elsewhere on this forum that the plastic side panels were not compatible between the original (’18/’19 MY) 401s and the new 2020 models.

The only thing I would add to this excellent list is that it’s best practice to change the copper washers on the banjo bolt fixing, to avoid any risk of leaks.

“Not a big fan of people working on and possibly scratching my bike…”

I’m with you on this!

The slop and play in my stock levers was pretty terrible too, so I took mine apart completely including drilling out the rivets, and shimmed, threaded, screwed and generally fettled them into shape. They are really good now, and it didn’t cost me much other than my time and some fixings. I made a post about modifying my brake lever a little while back.

I agree, the Svartpilen 401 looks so cool and different. I love mine despite it’s flaws.

It’s so engaging and manoeuvreable, so amazingly lightweight, I certainly don’t want to be without it.

Amazing photography.

I am now picturing you launching your Vit up off that earth ‘ramp’ in the background, and powering towards that Milky Way.

They look really good!

Yes, I just can’t emphasise enough how much better the KTM Duke 390 mirrors are over the awful stock Husqvarna ‘mickey mouse ears’ mirrors.

I used a bandsaw and cut the Oxford trim spacers down to just over the required thicknesses, then cleaned and trued up the cut ends on the lathe, then added the 45deg chamfer to the newly turned edge, then a…[Read more]

That second pic is really nice!

Nice! More pics please.

I can see Shoko’s point of view, Husqvarna seem to have pretty terrible quality, customer service and aftersales support. They should be able to sort simple issues like this one, but alas they don’t seem to care very much.

But as Max Cool says, if you love the bike and want to ride it, you’ll forgive it’s flaws, pony up to sort them out yourself…[Read more]

Did you buy your bike from a Husqvarna or KTM dealer? If so, they should have access to the range of official upgrade parts. The part number for Husqvarna’s lowering kit for the Vitpilen 401 is 28512955044.

Where are you based?

If you can buy a Vitpilen 401, then surely you can buy the official parts for the bike too, no? How would you get hold…[Read more]

They are most likely either pressed in or glued in.

You can try heating up the outer bar and pulling the inner bit out with a screw, or drilling the inner part out.

Or get hold of some 2018/19 bars, plenty of folk on here seem to have removed theirs to fit more comfortable conventional bars, someone might sell you them?

The question you need to answer yourself is whether the “hassle” of getting hold of a lowering kit is more of a bother to you than riding a bike that is “Still too high for comfort”?

(I have an official lowering kit fitted to my bike and to me it was the difference between being able to actually ride the bike comfortably and confidently, or not).

How about putting it on eBay rather than spamming every ‘Roadlok’ thread on here?

Wow, look amazing!

Was the defective cap causing a leak/loss of fluid, or just loss of pressure?

I am liking the fluo yellow touches!

Thanks, that’s pretty cool 😎