Well I've read here "nice ktm" or "ktm with husaberg linkage" .........What did we expect, now lets have a look at a bit of history and try to patch it together. In 1987 Gagiva purchased Husqvarna, the bikes began to take on a bit of italian flavor that we now consider to be the husky we know. However at that time a team of Swed's did not want to follow so led by Thomas Gustavsson they formed Husaberg a small poorly funded company but with great inovation, the same inovation that would have been Husqvarnas had it stayed in Sweeden maybe. In 1995 KTM owns Husaberg along with the inovation and technology, which you can guarantee has filtered into the ktm line over the years, so now some of the technology and design of husaberg born of husqvarna is at ktm. Now in 2007 BMW purchased Husky from the MV Augusta group and gave the bikes a German Flair similar to their x 450 enduro bike and gs 650 ect, they tried hard but bad timing and proberly min support or whatever from the parent company forced them to sell, so along comes Peirer. Pierer first stated that he will merge husaberg into husqvarna, the 2 company's that came from one in the begining and take Husqvarna back to its grass roots. Now I beleive that this bike is the begining of a new era using technology ,design and inovation that should have allways been Huskys.... Therefore it is slowly returning returning to its roots it just will take a few years to breed out the bit of orange in there. I think it's a great start and I like the bike a lot, I can't wait to see the rest of the line, hoping there is an 85 there somewhere for my daughter.
Most of this should be in a wiki somewhere... Not really? In the absence of actual information, people tend to assume the worst, then when anything remotely interesting is introduced they tend to talk about it. Like many others I can tell what is going to happen in the coming years. My opinion is that it is not 'better' or 'worse', just another step in a long journey.
Not sold on that yellow in there, older Huskies made it look good but I just cant bring myself to like this color scheme.
TC makes more sense. Now they can badge them all alike. TC 250, TC 250F, tc 300, tc 450f. Just like Yamaha and Honda used to do it.
Correct, I was wondering if they were the 4CS WP from Husaberg/KTM Six Days or the standard WP that KTM puts on their EXC-range bikes.
Excellent said! . And next weekend we will for sure find out if Husky has a 85cc in their 2014 range or not
Shroud shape is diff and is rounded and flowing and not that "Teutonic Chiseled" look. Akropovic stock would be nice too. The blue nipples are a bit much though. Other than that it is orange underneath and that is not going to win the Husky faithful nor the 'berg "orphans"....just sayin'
Couldn't expect anything else in such a short time frame. 2015 will be a hint of the future. It'll be 2016 models that define the new Husky direction. Until then it's all transitional scrambling.
It's hard to tell in the pics but they appear to be Closed cartridge forks, the caps look different than the 4cs. The 14 model KTM in the US have OC on the XC-W, CC on the SX and 4CS on the XC. No idea why they need three different forks. Personally I think they should pick a set and make them work better.
I would like to see a modern version of the vintage look. The red tank with the white pinstripe around the chrome patch on the tank looked really good. I think the 82 CR 250 was a great looking bike
The first thing they should have done was built a limited run of CR500s, there seem to be a lot of people out there building there own.
