+1 Lots of shorter folks out there & it truly is an underserved market- especially for a modern street legal dirt worthy bike. They've always been faced with either accepting substandard Jap trail bikes, paying hundreds of dollars to have a bike lowered, or buying the really expensive Service Honda 'JRs'. When Scott was still around, I had suggested to him via email, that Husky look at taking advantage of the small physical size of the X-light engine and build a smaller framed bike for the shorter folks out there- ie similar to the 100cc KX's and KTMs. This is just a more cost effective way of doing that from a manufacturing standpoint.
Great reporting!!! Thanks for going on such late notice. Interesting... I had hoped for a different frame, perhaps if the sales numbers are high enough? Valerie Wilson from TT and I had the same request earlier this year at Randsburg... Which reminds me, what other press were there? I haven't seen Karl Kramer since the Quicksilver race early 2007 in Clear Creek, and even then I did not have time to say hello.
Karl has been free lancing for various publications since he left Dirt Rider. Dennis Cox has his own on-line magazine called Dirt Illustrated. There was a van covered in bright moto graphics whose crew was doing video taping. There was a handful of journalists that I didn't recognize. I had hoped to see Mark Kariya there, but he wasn't present. Gary Jones had Dennis doing some video taping for him. Larry Roeseler and Jim Gibson were also both present. It was really a rather small and relaxed gathering.
Did anyone ask why they dropped the TE630 before having replacement for the popular ADV long maintenance service interval Dual Sport category?
