If the rumor is true that they will be as cheap as I have been told(in the Drz price range) then I will be all over this bike.
I like it. If these are anywhere close to a DRZ price Bills is going to be selling me a new bike. That would be a PERFECT street and gravel road explorer for my area.
+1 and I was just getting to like my Buell for street and gravel.....but this looks veeeery tempting.
Hanging out at the Husky Pits, after the first round of the 2012 EnduroCross in Vegas, I overheard a conversation between the editor of a well know dirt rag magazine and a Husky marketing guy. The coversation was the bike is coming and the "price is right." May be time to hit the streets and dirt in AZ.
What is the benefit of having a single exhaust pipe leading into two silencers? Can't one can handle the flow or silence it sufficiently?
Nice article, good find. And there is your TE as well. Add some suspension travel, a 21" front wheel with high fender, and you've got a TE650. I'm willing to bet my bottom dollar right now. Great looking bike, will make a nice TE too, although not nearly the bike the current offering brought. Nobody apologizes for the Sertao, so they won't for this one either. (I was looking for the 'barf' icon.) 'Course they might just skip the TE segment with bigbore altogether. I don't expect any real adventure type bikes, they would just take sales from the BMW line then. How 'bout a re-badged F800? (where's that barf icon again...)
I think just like they did with the Nuda the engine displacement will grow up closer to 700cc and the rest of the performance and weight numbers will get closer to the KTM 690 numbers It will end up being a little bit less horsepower and torque and a smidge more pounds but for the MSRP it'll be a no brainer I would also love to see the nice frame mounted faring like somebody at TT photochoped as an option...
Yea, this thing is a commuter, light adventure bike; hopefully with a bit more dirt oriented feel than the latest G650 (which feels like a big scooter IMHO). I wouldnt want to take it on any single track...but I know that some will go that route, but then I dont understand the whole GS1200 as a gravel road bike thing either...way too much iron for the job if you ask me.
It's the R1200GS... The GS NEVER goes in front. It goes after, like the e in TE610e. The letter for the model line goes in front (R or F in this case). GS is a descriptive term that is dropped at the end. It stands for Gerlände Straße, which is German for Land and Street (more or less).
