SuperBike Magazine July 2020
The July issue is packed with awesome content to keep you busy over the remaining days of July. We are hard at work putting our August issue to bed!
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LONGTERMER DANIEL PIENAAR<br />
HUSQVARNA<br />
SVARTPILEN<br />
Unfortunately due to the corona virus pandemic and South Africa going into a nation wide lock down This long termer<br />
from Husqvarna has had to be parked for a little while. During the level 5 I was sitting in my house pondering about how I<br />
could get saddle time on this phenomenal machine.<br />
I<br />
figured that I could use this bike to<br />
go to the shops, I could get out the<br />
house and get some helmet time to<br />
regain a bit of mentality. It was pretty<br />
apparent to me that I never appreciated<br />
the freedom associated to riding<br />
quite as much as I do now.<br />
After wheeling the bike through my<br />
house and into the driveway I was ready<br />
to get going. I had let this beautifully<br />
design bike warm up before swinging<br />
my leg over for a ride. I was ready. As I<br />
rode out the driveway I figured that it<br />
would be pointless riding right down<br />
the road and my satisfaction for riding<br />
would not be fulfilled, so what would<br />
any normal rider do? Obviously go to a<br />
shop further away. The ride wasn’t your<br />
usual breakfast run distance but it was<br />
enough to throughly enjoy riding the<br />
Husqvarna. While I was out and about<br />
I had to walk to the bike a few times<br />
and it is impossible not to admire how<br />
good looking this bike is. As the old<br />
saying goes if you walk away from your<br />
bike and don’t turn around to look back,<br />
you’ve bought the wrong motorcycle.<br />
This is definitely not the case with this<br />
motorcycle.<br />
I think part of the reason there<br />
has been such big success with this<br />
Svartpilen is that it really looks the part,<br />
it holds a certain amount of old school<br />
character with the round head light but<br />
also a modern appeal throughout the<br />
rest of the motorcycle and as I have<br />
previously mentioned I love the subtleness<br />
of the branding on the bike, which<br />
leave people wondering that don’t know<br />
motorcycles.<br />
On the way home I had some fun<br />
with the this Svartpilen, after getting<br />
the few essentials I need we were<br />
headed home and one thing I absolutely<br />
loved about the level 5 lockdown was<br />
the open roads with very few cars. It just<br />
meant you could ride a little faster and<br />
have less risk of things going wrong.<br />
This also meant that there was ample<br />
place to wheelie and once you turn the<br />
traction control off this bike really does<br />
come into its own. It is loads of fun to<br />
ride this single cylinder Husky and I<br />
reckon it will definitely put a smile on<br />
any motorcycle enthusiasts face.
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