Husqvarna’s Svartpilen 801 is coming! That is what we all know thus far.

Husqvarna’s simply confirmed it’s going to be bringing out a large-capacity model of its funky Svartpilen roadster-cum-scrambler.

The information from the Austrian-owned agency isn’t precisely a shock, following its not-so-subtle social media teaser a couple of weeks again. However that doesn’t imply it’s not thrilling.

Traditionally, it was solely attainable for riders to get their palms on the sportier, more-focused Vitpilen in the event that they wished one thing punchier than the 401 variations of the bikes. Talking of which, this reveal follows swiftly on from the discharge of the brand new vary of smaller capability Svartpilen and Vitpilen 401s and 125s – and there’s a great probability that the bigger capability model of the someway retro and fashionable avenue scrambler will observe the identical profitable formulation. Whereas we haven’t received all the main points simply but, Husky has shared a couple of bits of key info which give us a style of what’s to come back when it’s revealed in full on March 19.

Based mostly largely on the KTM 790 Duke (although not built-in China by CFMoto), the brand new Svartpilen 801 is a fairly large deal for the agency. It’ll change into the most important purely ‘street-focused’ bike in its vary; and as you’d count on, it’ll have all the great things essential to make it an absolute blast on the street. It suggestions the scales at a svelte 181kg and has 105hp on faucet from its feisty parallel-twin motor… that feels like a profitable mixture, doesn’t it? There’s WP suspension and all of the electronics you’d count on too; together with rider aids, an Straightforward Shift system as commonplace and extra.

Regardless of being extra avenue than scrambler, Husky gone out of its approach to put the bike by its paces in some fairly distinctive circumstances, taking it for a blast on a flat-track oval, and sticking some spikes in its tyres and handing over the keys to an ice monitor racing champion. If nothing else, the images are tremendous cool – although really, it’s really a fairly good method for the manufacturing facility to bolster the message that its bike is completely positioned to assist riders ‘escape the bizarre’. And even with out the spikes, there’s little doubt it’s a fairly totally different proposition to the remainder of the middleweight bare bikes available on the market. We like that.