semi secret sauce ...

i did not got to the factory recently.
i also did not hear a certain someone here asked about real sized gas tanks and support for same and to knock it off with the peanut tanks over here.
also I did not hear a certain someone who's name is like a wire retaining device stumbled onto the super sceret engine room and snaped a shot of the new head on an undisclosed displacement engine that should up the power etc.
i also did not hear that two smokes are as strong as thumpers at the Itallian enduro and that Husky is wango commited to the ringa-ding-dingers. I also did not hear the new 450 is for sure getting a BMW motor no if's and's er butts'.

none of this you can take to the bank. (pic cropped to protect the innocent)

nothing gets by meeeee!

i know nuuuuthing! nuuuthing! (sgt.schultz)

A juice clutch is a step in the right direction. The old cable design was stupid and allowed junk to get trapped between the arm and the engine, causing the clutch to slip and fry itself. I personally witnessed this happen to one bike and heard of others.
I'm still not convinced the squarehead designed 450 is better than something the engineers at Varese could come up with, but we'll see.
At least it's looking a bit more promising that they aren't going to use that redneck frame contraption (or a variant) the BMW G450X abortion used.

Note to BMW - current owners of Husqvarna Motorcycles; Don't interfere with engineers that have a track record of doing intelligent things with off-road motorcycle design, especially by some engineers that don't. Don't let stubborn squarehead teutonic egos get in the way of a good thing. Hopefully you'll remember that you bought Husky because it was Husky, not because you may want to change it into BMW. Many folks buy Huskies because they are beautifully designed and a pleasure to service. Keep that in mind when/if trying to squareheadify the Husky engineering dept. If you mess it up, I'll personally have to fly over to Munich and phart in the face of Dr. - Ing. Norbert Reithofer....

Slowpoke (of German descent & knows a thing or two about the personality traits of German folk.....)

I think this is great news myself. My initial reaction from seeing the 450x motor in the Husky frame is that it appears to be more compact [i.e. similar to the new 250 engine]. I'm not saying that its that small -- but it looks smaller. Should be a nice bonus for handling and the "porky-ness" factor of the current bikes.

I'm stoked -- where the pictures of some new 2-strokes????

http://www.cafehusky.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1341&page=10

esp nice one of a 125 on the last page