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Husaberg Supermono for street use

Dr_C

Dr_C

Joined Oct 2003
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Hello friends!
I´ve been racing Supermono for a decade now and I´m starting to realise how old my friends are starting to look... :wink: It just may be time to start up the project I´ve had in my head for some time now.

I think that there is a market for 1-cylinder, light weight sports bikes. The Ducati Supermono never entered the streets, nor did Gilera Piuma. The SR500, SRX600, SZR660 are either old or too heavy. The Gilera Saturno was a jewel in it´s time. Cagiva has come with one version, based on the Mito. I would very much like to build a light weight, high performance sports bike, powered with a Husaberg engine.

There are different ways to go for the design:
1. Naked retro style, café racer, with spoked wheels, clip on
2. Street fighter with modern stealth look
3. Road racing style, half/full fairing
4. Minimalistic modern, like the Sachs Beast

So, what´s the community´s idea of what version would satisfy the market?

/Dr_C
 
I like the "street tracker" look. I'd like to stick an old air cooled Husky 510 engine in a track master frame and make it street legal. Twin exhaust would be cool, and big brakes.

If your looking for new what about a KTM Duke.
 
Good luck getting an old air cooled 510 to run very long. The only thing that helped the reliablity was the fact that it took about 25 kicks to start it! :lol: By that time you might give up. I would lean towards a naked cafe racer style. I owned an SRX-600 and loved it although it was kinda slow.
 
The café racer style makes it easier to use parts from a motard, but the radiator will destroy some of the clean and retro look. Maybe a modern café racer, like the Ducati MHR900? The steel tubed, single sided, rear swingarm is indeed classified as ****ografic material. :tongue:

/Dr_C
 
CelticDude said:
Good luck getting an old air cooled 510 to run very long. The only thing that helped the reliablity was the fact that it took about 25 kicks to start it! :lol: By that time you might give up. I would lean towards a naked cafe racer style. I owned an SRX-600 and loved it although it was kinda slow.
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I could aiiways be a sissy and use an E-start Rotax, but it just wouldn't be as cool. I'm just talkin outa my arse, I've still gt a couple of old Chevy projects that may never get off the groung. I have come across 1 or 2 old rotax powered flat trackers on Ebay that would be cool on the street. I should just buy one and add it to my junk collection.
 
Hey Dr. C,

There can only be one - the cafe racer - classic or modern. A very poor second would be a type of "urban" style bike. It's funny, I began to think about someting like this a few years ago, particularly after seeing the Ducati line. I got as far as reading the Foale and Bradley books on chassis design, sketching a few ideas out in my head and doing an engineering course to learn how to build the parts I might need..........and it's still on pause.

Good luck, it would be a fantastic project!

Simon
 
The Ducati retro range are really nice. One of my favourites in that class is the Triumph Thruxton. But I have to confess my exitement over the Sachs Beast...

Here is some more "fuel" on topic:

/Dr_C
 

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With this "storm" of response, I take it the dirtbike riders are not the goal market. Well thats a survey result too... :)
 
Husky 510 engine in a track master frame and make it street legal. Twin exhaust would be cool, and big brakes.

The Husky 510 engine is brilliant and the power is great, ours now in the loft was a great winner at the track racing. Highly recomended engine
 
sara said:
Husky 510 engine in a track master frame and make it street legal. Twin exhaust would be cool, and big brakes.

The Husky 510 engine is brilliant and the power is great, ours now in the loft was a great winner at the track racing. Highly recomended engine
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Is there any chance you and Huskyfatman (see further up in the thread) were born and raised together? :)
 
Maybe thats why they call me the black sheep of the family! Maybe Im adopted? :lol: :lol:
 
I love the lines on that one Kelsow-what is it?

I seems to me Dale Lineaweaver had built a Berg roadracer that I thought was way too cool looking.I'd saved the pic somewhere but it seems to escape me at the moment....
 
That is a Yamaha XS650 twin Ford,possibly the worlds most rebuildable motorcycle.
 
ford832,
here are two Lineaweaver bilkes:
Also check out his gallery.

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Lineaweaver / Riddle Husaberg RR

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Running Prototype Lineaweaver / Husaberg DT-600 1995
 
Huskyfatman said:
CelticDude said:
Good luck getting an old air cooled 510 to run very long. The only thing that helped the reliablity was the fact that it took about 25 kicks to start it! :lol: By that time you might give up. I would lean towards a naked cafe racer style. I owned an SRX-600 and loved it although it was kinda slow.
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I could aiiways be a sissy and use an E-start Rotax, but it just wouldn't be as cool. I'm just talkin outa my arse, I've still gt a couple of old Chevy projects that may never get off the groung. I have come across 1 or 2 old rotax powered flat trackers on Ebay that would be cool on the street. I should just buy one and add it to my junk collection.
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25 kicks!!! haha more like nots in cotton legs :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
This was an ex track bike, which I put on the road, it has a dominator single in it, tuned a little. It was a great little bike[/img]
 

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the spondon is bad . I have heard that the aprilia when the motor is strait will build a 550 version of the rsvr . I would buy one in a second .I had a 04 rvsr factory & really liked it.
 
drgnrydr said:
the spondon is bad . I have heard that the aprilia when the motor is strait will build a 550 version of the rsvr . I would buy one in a second .I had a 04 rvsr factory & really liked it.
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UNO has built a bike with SXV550-engine in a Aprilia 125-frame. very neat looking, with the SXV swingarm.
 

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