VOL. 53 ISSUE 5 FEBRUARY 9, 2016 P63
BY KIT PALMER
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KEVIN WING
L
ife really doesn't get much
better than this when you
think about it: one day
you're whipping the handlebars
from one turn to the other on
a twisty back road on a sunny
but cool afternoon in Southern
California aboard what I think is
the ultimate kind of street bike
when it comes to just plain ol'
701 ENDURO MODELS
A S U R E
having fun on the pavement—
supermoto—and the next day
you've got the throttle pinned
in fourth gear down a high-
speed sand wash in the
middle of the desert on
another really fun kind of
motorcycle—enduro. Yes, life
was really, really good those
two days, thanks to the folks
at Husqvarna and its two new
models—the 701 Supermoto
and 701 Enduro.
In reality, the 701s are not
exactly new, but they are new
to Husqvarna. They share the
same platform as two bikes al-
ready in KTM's lineup—the 690
SMC (Supermoto, which is not
sold in the U.S.) and Enduro.
This has been the norm with
all of the Husqvarna off-road
models ever since KTM and
Husqvarna tied the knot in 2013.
