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Maybe i havnt been looking very hard, but why dig KTM lay husaberg to rest? I see alot of adds With bergs in sweden. And ppl seem to have been enthusiasts about them. Pros and the rest of us!
Competition for ktm? Dont add up, theyd make The money from it.
Anyone?
 
My theory is that they felt that Husqvarna was a more marketable brand. It has a deeper history, especially in the US. Steve McQueen rode a Husky and all that!

The Husaberg technology still lives on. The KTM RFS is quite a lot like the Husaberg motor - they bought Husaberg for the motor - and I remember bushmechanic saying that the latest KTM motors are again a lot like the golden age Husaberg motors.

So on the surface Husaberg is no longer. Underneath it's still all there.
 
Can see how that makes sense. Husqvarna is one of The biggest all doers. Like bosch. They have alot of companies. Building different stuf. But then why was husqvarna sold to ktm?
 
I am sure some enterprising lad will produce a Husaberg graphics kit so that those Husky decals can be peeled off and replaced with proper attire (with the Swedish flag flying of course). If enough Huskys rebadge themselves as Husabergs perhaps KTM will get the message.
 
Hehe. Make a statement. Well i cant help. Im allrdy riding a berg. And perhaps in The future i wouldnt mind the second best. One Day bergs wont be in time with The latest. Sad to say. But in enduro or motard. Id still go husa/huskey /ktm.
 
As long as we're dreaming all we need is someone with a whole lot of money to revive the Husaberg. And if the name is still owned by KTM then call it Husenburg. The whole line up should be FI and include the 70* bikes along with the option of the old 628 and 700 bikes, FI also.
How's that !
 
I live nearby husaberg. Well close enough. So just collect some money and il start it up.
 
Tourist is right. KTM bought Husqvarna as that is more known and easier to sell. They took the Husqvarna name and renamed the Husaberg department, then they sold the Husqvarna tech to Gasgas. So nothing has changed except the name and the color of the plastics.

I just hope that KTM will give the huskyberg team more freedom so they can go back to their own designs instead of tweaking KTMs.

And before bashing KTM too much we have to remember that without them Husaberg would have probably not survived. And imho, if you look at the alternatives, KTM was the best to be bought by.
 
As far as bike brands go, I agree it was better KTM bought HusaberG than anyone else.
Say what you want about KTM, love them or hate them, but they design great bikes, not the same boring copy/paste attitude that a lot of the manufacturers have. Still doing active development of twostrokes, in fact they will be releasing all new 200, 250 and 300 engines in their off road line-up.

And as stated, a LOT of HusaberG tech underneath those orange offroad fourstrokes.

Some have said that the 70* engines were a failed experiment, but Husaberg tech takes 2 or 3 years to filter down to the KTM bikes.
-2009 Husaberg has EFI, three years later the KTMs come with the same EFI system.
-The 70* idea was to move the rotating mass of the crank to the centre of the bike, now in the new SXF and XCF engines all crankshafts have been moved up,and gearboxes slightly lower, clearly there was some benefit to be had from the 70* style design.
-Even the all new 125 twostroke engine follows the same principle.
-KTM have also reduced internal rotating masses from counterbalancer and waterpump, which used to be separate, by combining them onto one rotating shaft, which also drives the camchain, keeping the camchain at a shorter length than when run from the crank.
-KTM had change the clutch baskets to steel gear with aly basket during the 2008 to 2012 Fourstrokes, 400/450/530, like the japanese do. They went back to the solid steel clutch basket like the BerG had.

I'm sure if we do some more digging we'll find some more BerG tech in the orange machines...
 
Indeed, can you imagine what never would have been if Cagiva, BMW or, gasp, Harley had been Husaberg's suitor? KTM did ok by Husaberg. Yes, they too made some odd decisions regarding the brand aND I too want to see more swedish engineering latitude (as represented). Still, ownership by KTM makes that vision at least possible.
 
As of now the top new street legal Dual sport and Supermoto's in production in the U.S. IMO are the KTM, Husqvarna and Beta. And are doing well as green sticker bikes also. All 3 are FI in 2016 which is nice although we are missing out on Husqvarna being a unique bike because it has a KTM motor and many other things. Beta is a good bike but dealers and parts are 100 miles from each other in any direction. If I were to buy a brand new bike it would have to be KTM. Who's to say what Husqvarna will be in 5 years. It's a Mystery. They don't own the Husqvarna name . And I already have a bike that has been discontinued.
Might as well go with something thats probably going to be around for some time.

pollo
 
And there's probably no doubt Husqvarna will also be around for a while but what will they be.
Right now they are going through an identity crisis again
 
"Some have said that the 70* engines were a failed experiment..."

Not anybody who ever rode a 70 degree Husaberg.
 
Nor the Husaberg rep that had a "2013 tryout". When he heard I had a 570 he looked at me angry and told me that I'm not allowed to sell my 570 to buy a new bike, and if I were I had to call him first. I told him I will never sell and he nodded and mumbled that they didn't stop the production due to bad design but it was an economic decision..
 
I was a little taken back by the unconventional design because I was used to my 650s being so easy to work on. Plus I wanted a backup kickstart. But then I rode a 570 and I liked it a lot.The bike is awesome.
 
"Some have said that the 70* engines were a failed experiment..."

Not anybody who ever rode a 70 degree Husaberg.

Absolutely true.

I used to work at a KTM dealer and they gave me endless sh!t for wearing my HusaberG shirts to work and being a total BerG fanatic.

But that whole failed experiment thing came from KTM people who had never even ridden a HusaberG in their lives.

Clowns.
 
@ John Andersson, I'm totally going to make me a shirt with your signature on, if you don't mind...
 
That's the one HusaberG I don't have in my collection yet. I'm still looking for a 70*...
 

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