Here in SA the first batch have arrived --One dealer in particular is stoked --All pre --Ordered and ready to move out to the new owners. Says he will have sold more Huskies Till March 2014 than he did the WHOLE 2013
I believe it. Even in the local race series, it's amazing how much talk there is about the new Husky's.
The Husabergs look better than the KTM's so they are going to take sales from KTM orange. But it's all good as the company will just pull in a few more bucks for every Huskaberg that's sold over their Orange bikes.
I´d have preferred the Berg over the Husky 630 that I eventually bought, but it was even less adaptable for road use ... just about on the limit to be plated and a lot more labour intensive. There´s not much choice left for a plated SM.
That's sort of what I think might happen also. I'm predicting he has a tiger by the tail keeping orange numbers UP while selling Huskies at the same time. But from the company business side, they do not wanna see orange sales numbers go down due to sales of the new Huskies. That is not good business for them. Maybe overall revenues will increase with this path but SP will want the orange numbers AND Husky numbers to show growth. Anything else and he will adjust fire or maybe look at the butter per unit and adjust there also. And I'm speaking 1st world sales. 3rd world stuff is wide wide open to hundreds of thousands of bikes in the next decade.
It is hilarious but I must be being punished for being outspoken and to the point but I can not reply to anything?! Funny when you lip off to someone sponsoring this site what happens And AJAX I'm pretty sure that old Husky 125 will still be running in 2017 when your 2015 Husky is being sold for parts! LOL
I'm not really excited about anything in the line up except that te250/300. I really think if I can get my hands on one ill be able to ride like Graham Jarvis lol
that bike and gear will look like that for another 20 feet then look like every other bike on the trail... brown. :>)
A friend of mine just bought a MY14 450XC-W which is as close to the Husky as a KTM could get, for $8400. I imagine they will start around that price point. They have similar components to the KTM's, but they are not the same. They sit differently, ride differently, run different, including the power bands. Many of the parts are not exchangeable between orange and Huskys.
Old news, right.. 2&4 strokes - Well Husky fixed a few things on the MY14. Power is very snappy and it still turns on a dime. The suspension is nice and plush for slow riders, but when ridden fast it's like a Ivan Stewart trophy truck, doesn't kill the rider and controllable over anything, even harder landings. Power on top could use more tuning, ZipTy is on it.
Wow! All caps.... It is really true Troy. Speaking from experience with my Husaberg TE250, it is a mix of mostly KTM parts and some unique Husaberg parts mixed together like no other KTM model. Different larger fuel tank, suspension valving, jetting and engine tuning are specific. The polyamide sub frame sits lower than the aluminum KTM one and changes the feel and handling of the bike. The Husky will be the same story, even more so with wide ratio tranny in a linkage frame. KTM doesn't offer this combination, wide ratio means PDS only. Are the Huskys and Husabergs totally unique bikes? No they aren't, but they are more than KTM's with different graphics and sub frame.....
