If you could have any accessory.....

What is missing from the market that you would like to buy? For me and my FE550, it'd be a larger tank.

The reason I ask is I'm thinking about using my engineering skills for coming up with a few new bits (not just because it'd mean I could by a new bike through my company!). For those that care I was a design engineer at Triumph since 2005, having been involved with the street triple, Tiger 800, and other yet to be announced projects! I've now decided to start up my own design company - My designs have a history of being good and I have good manufacturing contacts which could help the feasibility of the plan!

If there's enough interest in something particular, I may have a go!

All thoughts gratefully received,

Martin

Thanks to everyone that's posted ideas, there's plenty there to think about!

A bit of feedback to those received so far:

Rear Fender - There's a lot of after market rear fenders in the market place already, and I'm surprised you've not found one that works with bike. Many of the plastic ones (admittedly that don't use the stock lighting), can be tweaked by applying heat and bending them into shape. I'm not sure there's enough demand for a Husaberg specific part, and the price would be prohibitive (unless you were to invest large sums in tooling).

2 Stroke Map Switch - I know the square root of bugger all about engine mapping - although I have just put a deposit down on a new TE250, so am looking forward to comparing the two maps!

Pillion Pegs - The bikes aren't designed to take pillions (so there'd be liability issues if something was to happen due to poor handling or something breaking) and I doubt there'd be enough demand for pillion pegs.

Universal Lighting Mounts - Like the idea of universal lighting mounts. Opening it up to many different models is a good thing, and with the wide range of good value LED lighting out there, could be worth further investigation.....

Lighting Upgrade to fit existing cowl - As with the rear fender idea, there's lots of existing options out there. Also, the tooling cost of reflectors and lenses is surprisingly large (tens of thousands of pounds).

Rear Rack - Like the idea of this, as it's something I'd find useful too! Possibility of the part being a fabrication or machined billet means there's no tooling cost, so quite feasible. Watch this space!

Underseat storage box - Should be quite easy to do, so I'll look further into this too....

New Exhaust - a lot of tooling cost and development work would be needed for this - a bit too much for me.

Electronically Adjustable Suspension - the development cost would be massive, and only the sort of thing a manufacturer could do properly. I don't think you'll see it on proper off road bikes any time soon though as the weight disadvantage would be prohibitive.
Regarding the bike automatically updating the suspension, I can't see that happening in the near future on road bikes or off road bikes. The reason being if you're riding your bike and then it's performance characteristics change without you knowing then you go round a corner and crash "because the bike suspension wasn't set as you thought" then there'd be liability issues. You would not believe the things some people try and sue motorcycle manufacturers over!

Any more suggestions gratefully received, and I'll do my best to respond when I can.

Martin

Thanks to everyone that's posted ideas, there's plenty there to think about!

A bit of feedback to those received so far:

Rear Fender - There's a lot of after market rear fenders in the market place already, and I'm surprised you've not found one that works with bike. Many of the plastic ones (admittedly that don't use the stock lighting), can be tweaked by applying heat and bending them into shape. I'm not sure there's enough demand for a Husaberg specific part, and the price would be prohibitive (unless you were to invest large sums in tooling).

2 Stroke Map Switch - I know the square root of bugger all about engine mapping - although I have just put a deposit down on a new TE250, so am looking forward to comparing the two maps!

Pillion Pegs - The bikes aren't designed to take pillions (so there'd be liability issues if something was to happen due to poor handling or something breaking) and I doubt there'd be enough demand for pillion pegs.

Universal Lighting Mounts - Like the idea of universal lighting mounts. Opening it up to many different models is a good thing, and with the wide range of good value LED lighting out there, could be worth further investigation.....

Lighting Upgrade to fit existing cowl - As with the rear fender idea, there's lots of existing options out there. Also, the tooling cost of reflectors and lenses is surprisingly large (tens of thousands of pounds).

Rear Rack - Like the idea of this, as it's something I'd find useful too! Possibility of the part being a fabrication or machined billet means there's no tooling cost, so quite feasible. Watch this space!

Underseat storage box - Should be quite easy to do, so I'll look further into this too....

New Exhaust - a lot of tooling cost and development work would be needed for this - a bit too much for me.

Electronically Adjustable Suspension - the development cost would be massive, and only the sort of thing a manufacturer could do properly. I don't think you'll see it on proper off road bikes any time soon though as the weight disadvantage would be prohibitive.
Regarding the bike automatically updating the suspension, I can't see that happening in the near future on road bikes or off road bikes. The reason being if you're riding your bike and then it's performance characteristics change without you knowing then you go round a corner and crash "because the bike suspension wasn't set as you thought" then there'd be liability issues. You would not believe the things some people try and sue motorcycle manufacturers over!

Any more suggestions gratefully received, and I'll do my best to respond when I can.

Martin