Four Eyed Daruma

29/05/2023

Shaun’s 401 got a 389 upgrade

17/04/2023

Shaun had a great time learning new skills at the KTM Riders Academy in Vietnam. Really getting the 401 to its limits.

06/03/2023

Part 2 of our trip in Long Hai. Going back to Saigon...google map brought us to a special kind of ferry

18/02/2023

Out riding with KTM Vietnam! Good times, new brake lever was great!

16/02/2023

New brake lever!

29/01/2023

Playing with the dirt bikes in Vietnam today!

18/01/2023

First prototype of our rack, feedback please!

09/01/2023

Suspension is set! Bike finally feels like it is my bike! Clearance is pretty much double from the stock Asian model. The lean is the biggest issues now. On to get that fixed.

07/01/2023

Nitron R3 is on, now needs to be tuned. The height change is very noticeable and the lean on the bike is crazy now. For sure need a new kickstand.

29/12/2022

New video out for the holidays!!! Part 1 of our weekend trip to Long Hai...as usual it didn't go as planned...

16/12/2022

Svartpilen 401 Goes Offroad!!: KTM Riders Academy - PT1 | S01-EP04 |

Took the Husqvarna Svartpilen 401 for a 2 days offroad training trip with the KTM team near Saigon.

14/12/2022

We be making some parts! Overcome the low brake lever issue! Mockups now after we get things machined.

08/12/2022

New video out!! Shaun is going through all the works he has done on his . Getting it ready for the trip around Vietnam
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08/12/2022

New Video!
Husqvarna Svartpilen 401 Mods to date

Future plans we have to actually make some parts for this bike!

Please check it out here:

Going over the current build, where we need to go and manufacturing our own products for the market to fit the need of the 401Chapters: Intro: 00:00Fork Upgr...

05/12/2022

Some images from the KTM Rider Academy

05/12/2022

04/12/2022

Good morning Vietnam, Day 2 of KTM Rider Academy!

03/12/2022

KTM Rider Academy!

21/11/2022

New video about our full day offroad tour in D**g Nai is now live on our Youtube channel! https://youtu.be/JkbHe_hTw5Q

13/11/2022

Get out there

13/11/2022

Almost got stuck in the beach. Fun times

13/11/2022

Going exploring, almost got stuck in the beach, sand is no joke

06/11/2022

Using the Husky to take the Shiba (Kiki) to the park

06/11/2022

The natural changing colors of titanium are nice. Husqvarna Svartpilen 401

05/11/2022

Well yesterday was a bit of a roller coaster.

What I thought we had in Asia was the same forks as the western ones, with a lowering kit, but coming to find out we have tubes that are the specs of the western ones, but the lower connect mounts are not and inside we guess it's pretty much the same as a Duke 200, very disappointed and happy I decided to upgrade. To do the upgrade we had to take a Duke 390 lower tubes. At first the mechanic tried to use just that, but he said it was a bit off, 99% ok, but he wants 100%, I liked that. So he ended up going back to my tube and taking the duke 390 tube ends and adding the Andreani Group Fork Kit to the hybrid lower tubes.

There is one more aspect, we discovered during the tunning, that my weight, 90+ kg right now, I'm going to need a stronger spring, but that's easy and doesn't cost that much. Already I can just feel how different this is.

Key points, you will notice that 390's and 401's outside of Asia have a hole on the bottom mount of the suspension, where as Asian ones are closed. The kit needs this hole. Video will be coming soon where we go over this but here are some pictures.

I would like to say thanks for the people at Revzone pointing me to the right person to get things done, it's good to see the community here work together. It wasn't their fault, it seems that the information to what we have here in Asia isn't clear, I hope this helps someone else.