Maybe you can pit under a KTM tent, but all the Husky riders will have to wait until the lead ktm rider catches up before they can use the pit.
Husqvarna is dead. Long live Husqvarna. I saw a '13 berg FE250 yesterday and got a funny feeling. I told it quietly: "So you are the SOB that took out my friend. You better do everything perfect or I'll hate you until the end of time". It sort of winked at me and responded: "Don't worry I'm the real deal".
husky going back to their roots... roadracing. http://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&u=http://www.speedweek.com/moto3/news/44149/KTM-Rennchef-Pit-Beirer-Mit-Husqvarna-in-die-Moto3.html&act=url oh yes, when aprilia raced their rws250 also as "gilera", it added so much spice to 250cc gp-roadracing.it was just so thrilling to see those two "factories fight each other". r
That is actually really cool. I really believe the competition in sport bikes will trickle down to the dirt. It really seems that 2014 is just a do what they have to year. I'm actually excited to see what happens in 2015. Seems the brand will be its own by then
While Moto GP class 3 is interesting to me, I've no idea how that could possibly be 'going back to the roots of Husqvarna'. I will assume this is just another indication of what will be done vs what someone said will be done.
From Wikipedia.... Husqvarna competed in Grand Prix road racing in the 350cc and 500cc classes during the 1930s and was Sweden's largest motorcycle manufacturer by 1939. All of the racing bikes were based on a 50-degree V-twin prototype built by Folke Mannerstedt in 1931. They had solid-valve aluminum cylinders, an oddity at a time when most bikes had sodium cooling. The company team beat the Norton Works team at the Swedish GP in 1931 with a 1-2 finish by Ragnar Sundqvist and Gunnar Kalen. This and the next year's success led to a full commitment to the GP tracks with Stanley Woods and Ernie Nott joining the Husqvarna riding team. That year, Nott finished 3rd in the 350cc Junior TT and Woods ran out of gas 8 miles before the finish of the Senior TT. In 1935 the company withdrew racing support, but new bikes were still produced and raced privately,[3] while the company focused on producing a new 2-stroke, 2-speed commuter bike.[2] That year, Stanley Woods won the Swedish GP (marking the fourth year in a row that a "Husky" had won) on a 500cc Huqvarna motorcycle that weighted 279 pounds.[3]
Well ok, if that is the case then how is the TR650 "straying from Husqvarna's roots?" If something exists long enough, like Husqvarna has, then all sorts of things has happened in the past.
It always cracks me up when people say Husky is straying from their "roots" when building street bikes. Thats all they built at first, it IS their roots.
Once upon a time, the difference between a street bike and a dirt bike was.... the tires you put on it.
This is a good one for everyone that goes nuts over the competition bike market. They built race winning top tier road race bikes....only to kill support and sought to focus on commuter bikes......why?? because they needed to make money not spend it!!! And stay solvent. Lets just look at our little worlds of racing... who's making money out there racing??? No-one and we only fund the bike purchase upkeep and fees. Its all good though whatever KTM does will be about making money/marketing and putting on a good show.
Moto 3 has a lot of KTM powered bikes, now they will put a few Husqvarna decals on them just like they will be doing with the dirt bikes.
Someone bearing a striking resemblance to myself posted exactly this a few months ago and was scoffed at and ridiculed...I guess now it's cool. Funny how people don't want to talk about Husky being a roadracing powerhouse, winning many GP's and a couple of world championships back in "the beginning" before they became a powerhouse in the dirt. I want a Nuda R, dammit.
they will have to homologate the bikes first. before they race. unless the husaberg homologation will be rolled over to the husky brand.. ??
