Husqvarna Vitpilen 701 Cafe Racer

The VITPILEN 701 takes everything we love about motorcycles and combines them – a big, single cylinder motor, lightweight chassis, spartan aesthetics and a sporty riding style. Together, these attributes create an unmistakably pure riding experience, forcing your knee out in the bends and encouraging you to clear your mind and focus on.

Husqvarna vitpilen 701 cafe racer. When Pipeburns man arrived he opted to take the Vitpilen 701 first leaving me with the more Scrambler styled Husqvarna Svartpilen 401 for the first week. Not quite the bike you’d expect to see here on Return of the Cafe Racers, but when an opportunity presents itself… 1 2020 Husqvarna FE 501 and FE 350 Unveiled as New Off-Road Only Bikes 2 2019 Husqvarna 701 Supermoto and Enduro Bikes Bring Little. is that the Vitpilen comes with more cafe racer-oriented. Enter the Husqvarna Vitpilen 701. The first thing in the Husky's favor is that it is ultra-cool. If Honda's CBR600 is yesterday's sportbike, then the Vitpilen is the future of café racers, all attitude and stripped-to-the-bone aggression. Numerous attempts have been made to describe stylist Maxime Thouvenin's machinations, but, to me, it looks. Although the Husqvarna Vitpilen 701 Aero concept has been around since 2018 it has been in the spotlight again in recent months. The fully-faired version of the cafe racer styled Vitpilen has been awarded top honors at the coveted German Design Awards. The Aero took out first place in the motorcycle category of the 2019 Best of Best Automotive.

Vitpilen 701, c’est le nom de la nouvelle Husqvarna. Et si son nom évoque une illustre ancêtre, la Silver Pilen, bien connue des amateurs de cross, c’est une pure dévoreuse d’asphalte. Essai. THE VITPILEN 701. First up is the flagship, the Vitpilen 701. Of the pair it leads the way in terms of horsepower, displacement and above all, price. But we’ll talk about the money later. In the meantime, here’s the basic concept. The Vitpilen 701 is a modern cafe racer. It’s a lightweight, stripped-back single with very few bells and. In our recent feature discussing the cafe racer styled motorcycles at EICMA 2017 we left something very important out, but it was no accident. We’ve been impatiently awaiting the release of Husqvarna’s production version of the Vitpilen 701 for what feels like a decade…well 3 years really, but who’s counting. The Swedes… Oh man, how special this build is. Cafe Racer genre reinvented by choosing the exotic and rare donor bike – Husqvarna Vitpilen 701. A motorcycle that is only 2 years old (as from its premiere on the market). A motorcycle revolutionary by its design.

The Husqvarna Vitpilen 701 concept is one good looking cafe racer, and it shows where the Husqvarna brand is headed with its design. Mar 16, 2020 - Explore sniderexciderr's board "vitpilen 701" on Pinterest. See more ideas about Husqvarna, Cafe racer, Street bikes. But, while the Vitpilen 401 has a single LCD gauge, the 390 Duke has a TFT display. And while the KTM bike has upright handlebars, the café-racer-style Husqvarna has clip-on bars. The Husqvarna Vitpilen 701 and KTM 790 Duke offer many of the same features. They swap the ByBres for Brembos, though, and gain traction control and quick-shifters. The time had finally come to exchange it for the top of the range Husqvarna Vitpilen 701. This was the one I’d be waiting for. Although Husqvarna doesn’t openly state it, this bike is without a doubt a modern interpretation of a cafe racer. It’s powerful, lightweight and minimal; just as any good cafe racer should be.

Husqvarna also blew us all away with another concept named the Vitpilen 401 Aero. The Aero was a faired version of the Vitpilen 701 that featured racier lines and was described as a “21st-century interpretation of a cafe racer”. The 701 Vitpilen is comfortable despite its cafe racer ergonomics. Similar to a fine piece of art, the Husquvarna 701 Vitpilen comes with a premium price tag of $11,999. Expect to see them hitting. Although, as Cycle World explains, the Vitpilen’s styling is a more avant-garde take on the ‘traditional’ café racer ethos. Beyond the styling, the $11,999 Husqvarna Vitpilen 701’s engine also makes it a unique entry on this list. Bad Winners can replicate this build, including a new Vitpilen 701 and all the carbon parts, for €20,990—around US$23,400. (The Husqvarna manufacturer warranty is unaffected.) If that’s too steep, three alternative configurations will soon be available, going down to €14,690 (around US$16,400).