Hmmm....I had a Bultaco when they were the cool little guys/giant killers, and I spent weeks unable to compete when my crank sheared in half. I prefer the ability to get parts and bikes from the sophisticated and efficient BMW based enterprise with a functional Husqvarna dealer network. I know my local TM dealer...and he is doing fine business tuning suspension and service work for all comers, but 'not so much' on the bikes.
My point for this topic was the fact that Nic Burson was a Husky support rider thru Zip Ty Racing Husky has no direct Racing team just some independent teams with some support like Zip Ty Racing Then Husky drops Zip Ty and all the Husky riders go looking else ware.Nic goes to Privine Racing on Kaw Then Kaw drops all support for offroad racing so Privine goes looking for a new bike for there riders all 10 of them.It is just to bad with all the money Privine spends on both bikes and riders that Husky did not for some reason get the deal It would have been so cool to see 10 new Husky with top local expert riders on them racing around the south west .Beta might be a good bike but I see no reason to purchase one I am just making note of the fact We are all talking about them like we use to talk about Husky Next year Husky might have something new and once again we will all be talking about the new Husky Until then we will keep riding what we have not that that is a bad thing Just nothing great to talk about we have already said everything there is to say about the off road line up Something new might bring more riders ourway
He also just told me that the 498RR Beta is one fassst and powerful puppy, but they still need more suspension developement which of course is a constant ongoing process. As far as competitive at the nat level in offroad the older 450/510 is probably better than the newer CTS machines. Heck the ZipTy crew won the tecate enduro in 2010 against the factory team green guys and in singles OA over some very fast nat pros and current and former nat champs with TC/TXC450/510 based machines. Not discounting the Cory success and top 5 H&H results of the CTS machines. But again if y'all want a Husky team in the Nat H&H series (or other series) its your responsibility to make your own team, I guess you will need to run highly modded 449/511 based stuff like Ty was constantly evolving maybe go to Speedbrain Racing for tech assist..........or get some older 450/510s and mod the crap out of them, basically re-engineer them from the ground up to be competitive. Or go out and buy another brand of bike and do the same, like all good teams in all motorsports do.
