From what I hear, the new bike will be a completely new design direction. Look for white/blue/yellow colors and very smooth, rounded lines. All of the sharp angles will be gone. I think this will be the design inspiration:
I don't see how they can build all the tooling for a completely new designed machine and put it into production in such a short amount of time.
I agree joe, unless the new design was already in the pipeline. But that 1st pic looks like a bad photoshop, almost like a 2st bottom with a 4st top & pipe. I'll wait.....
Why not? Seems that they gonna use the MX frames which already have a linkage and no PDS. In terms of engines the old ones (2stroke, Xlite, BMW-shit) are already dead and only the KTM-series gonna survive. In the end there're only plastics and now the mills for the molds are running and the plastics gonna be ready for november, so wtf?
have you all seen how fast protoype to production is now with all our computer modeling? It can be done , and like birdy said all the hard parts/ metal exists,, some swoopy plastics, BNG and voila a new (look) bike is rolling out the door.
I believe what joedirt was saying is that there is no way they can design and build a GROUND UP NEW bike in that amount of time. Designing new plastic and slaping it on an existing KTM is one thing. Building a 100% new bike is a completely different can of worms.
I believe what Chilly wrote is correct, but not that it is immediately going to be a new bike. The future models will be in a new direction, yes. But MY14 models wont have drastic changes. It may have some Husky castings remade, but this is pretty much a "sticker slap" on to the existing MY14 Husaberg line. It is confirmed that the red/black/white colors will no longer be used. Street legal models worry me because the Husabergs did not have a model that was legal. This means they will have to lean the fuel mixtures way back, harming the performance. If a EXC KTM is used for the street legal bikes, then you will see PDS.
And just when we had finally found a good anodizing shop that could do a red with minimal fading. sheesh
You still like your bike to be Italian? , BETA or TM Racing-----all the Red/WHT and Blue (Azure) you'll ever need!!
A little more info would be much appreciated by all those with the same bike I'm sure. Putting the info out there might help others to look for the warning signs and maybe save someone else s' engine.
Please let us know what is happening with your bike, but in a separate thread, because that has little to do with what the next bikes are going to look like.
