The 2018 Husqvarna Vitpilen 701 carries a retail price of $11,999 and is available in one color, silver, with a yellow line running diagonally from the back of the gas tank to the muffler mount.
This brand-new urban street racer is powered by the same 693cc single-cylinder engine that also propels Husky’s 701 Supermoto and the 690 Duke produced by parent company KTM.
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We ran our Vitpilen 701 on the dyno in fourth gear to get the peak power output from the big single. We got a total of 70.95 hp at 8,200 rpm and 51.08 pound-feet of torque at 6,730 rpm.
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We finally get to throw a leg over the long-awaited Vitpilen 701, and it’s a ripper
“Wrangling the Vit’s feisty engine is easy to thanks to precise ride-by-wire throttling. It’s also surprisingly smooth for a big single, feeling more like a V-twin at idle and at speed thanks to comprehensive counterbalancing that includes a weighted shaft in the cylinder head. The engine has a few other tricks up its sleeve in the form of integrated coolant passages (for compactness and a clean appearance), a slipper clutch, dual-spark combustion chamber, traction control, and even a quickshifter and auto-blip downshifting.”—Ari Henning
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