The New BMW Husqvarna 450

Tack för det! I've been looking forward to seeing this bike for a while now...

No side panels= shitty

BMW should have revived Maico.

This is the best google Translate can do:

After all the problems last year, as we know, BMW chose to use more technology from Husqvarna. The collaboration has now resulted in a brand new BMW Husqvarna 450th Seven times world champion Juha Salminen tested the bike trail that purpose in Lommel Belgium. At the weekend waiting for the next step. Then Finn racing debut on the bike when the Spanish championship continues in A Peroxa.

Enduro worries for German BMW was widely known last year. Briton David Knight was just out for a few months. He tore his contract. Teammates Juha Salminen, Samuli Aro took more patience, but both were forced to redesign their G 450X during the year. Original ideas did not work satisfactorily. Here in Sweden, Anders Eriksson went through the same hassle. Apart from SM edge was broken the entire season of races for him.
But the problem is to be solved.
BMW bought Husqvarna for nearly three years ago (July 2007). The Bavarian machinery has recognized the need to use a range of solutions for the Italians to make bikes with greater reliability.
The cooperation between the product has meant that instead of building a common model: BMW Husqvarna 450th The chassis is equal to the Husqvarna and the engine is from BMW. For one and a half weeks of creation rolled out in daylight. The big star in the German Enduro team, 33-year-old Finn Juha Salminen, tested the machine in Lommel, Belgium. It was the first time that the bike was shown publicly.
Salminen told that the test drive in heavy Lommel sand was his second turn on the bike and that it almost was on the final version. The current World Cup third-place in the E2 class also found that perception was largely positive: the modified powder package fit nicely in the sand, the machine felt easy and smooth and seemed well balanced with regard to weight distribution.
- The new bakstötdämparen also gives the bike a more solid feel. In particular, in more critical situations, said Juha, saying that although the party was clearly sharper than before. This model feels lighter in the front and swing better.
But the big test of the BMW Husqvarna 450 awaits next weekend. Then run the season's fourth race in the Spanish Open championship in enduro A Peroxia. The contest will be the first Juhas BMW and Husqvarna exciting crossroads.

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More pics!

Yes, they still make the 700.http://www.maicointernational.com/html/mx-2010.html

And speaking of 700s... is ATK still alive?

http://www.atkusa.com/atk/(S(yp3czc55jyrxizrio0sq4k55))/documents/2009ATK700620cc.pdf

shit me!

looks like something out of 'the running man'

Looks way better than the last BMW but horrible compared to the Husqvarnas...

its the husky rad shrouds & back fender/side pannels and the bm front fender

How do you change the countershaft sprocket? Swingarm out I guess?

Without side panels what stops you roasting your leg on the pipe?

i thought that about ktm's too

Hall of Fame!

Just a photoshop, but it looks much better in the colors it will likely be sold with..

Just spoke with Maico today....surprises are coming!!

A 4 stroke ?

On the BMW (where the idea came from) they say a "competent mechanic" can do it in 5 minutes. I would guess that means the swingarm doesn't come out. Maybe the shaft just slides back the few inches you need to swap the sprocket?????