RUST magazine: 2017 Husqvarna Special
RUST tests the 2017 Husqvarna enduros. The new model season continues, this time it’s the turn of Husqvarna. And so RUST travels to Husqvarna – the town – in Sweden, to connect with Husky’s heritage and to test its future. It’s all new engines, all new chassis for the 2017 enduros, so there’s a lot to discuss – and to evaluate. Do they make the grade? Only one way to find out... Happy reading! Jon Bentman (Editor, RUST)
RUST tests the 2017 Husqvarna enduros.
The new model season continues, this time it’s the turn of Husqvarna. And so RUST travels to Husqvarna – the town – in Sweden, to connect with Husky’s heritage and to test its future. It’s all new engines, all new chassis for the 2017 enduros, so there’s a lot to discuss – and to evaluate. Do they make the grade? Only one way to find out...
Happy reading!
Jon Bentman
(Editor, RUST)
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Editorial<br />
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By jon bentman,<br />
photo: marco campelli<br />
IT’S TIME FOR Husky <strong>2017</strong>. Should we care? Is this not KTM <strong>2017</strong><br />
repeated, just painted white blue and yellow? Actually we should care and<br />
while yes, there are a lot of shared components there are significant<br />
differences that really do set the Huskies apart.<br />
First of those differences – suspension. A short while ago, while interviewing<br />
Steve Holcombe (currently leading the E3 world championship) we<br />
asked him what are the three most important ingredients in making the<br />
grade in enduro. His number one – suspension. With Husky, while we are<br />
still talking WP kit, we are talking different WP kit. It’s not PDS at the rear, it’s<br />
Monoshock, that is to say linkage. So the WP unit in there bears very little<br />
relation to that in the KTMs. That linkage also means the frame design has<br />
to be different too. Not just by way of lugs and attachments, but in the way<br />
the shock transfers the loads. And because a linkage acts different to PDS<br />
you’d have to think the forks will be different too. These ones are still Xplore<br />
48s, but they have the addition of preload adjusters, quite possibly they have
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