With the supplanting of the veteran KTM 690 Duke with the all-new 790 Duke, the platform was looking for a home. KTM handed the Duke to the closely related Husqvarna brand, and the cafe-style Vitpilen 701 was born last year. Now, we have the Svartpilin 701—an upright version of the Vitpilen. The 2019 Husqvarna Svartpilen 701 takes inspiration from bare-bones flat trackers, reimagining the sporting Duke as a gritty urban motorcycle ready for the zombie apocalypse—both visually and functionally.
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