Launch for Husqvarna’s new-gen 2017 enduro bikes – this same XPLOR forkĪppeared across Husky’s enduro range (replacing WP’s much-maligned 4CSįork), but these bikes did not get an XPLOR
A couple of months later – in Sweden, at the media.Got to see and test WP’s all-new 48mm USD XPLOR fork and XPLOR PDS shock Launch for KTM’s new generation 2017-model enduro range – that we first It was back in mid 2016 – in Spain, at the media.Now that’s cleared up, here’s a table to summarise it… XPLOR “I know the coordination of the naming protocol is not 100 percent, but we simply had to have the differentiation between the technology on Husqvarna’s and KTM’s OEM products.”
“The naming that WP has kept on their Pro components side is okay, but not something I could not accept on the OEM side because customers would incorrectly think that KTM and Husqvarna have the same rear shock,” Maxwell goes on to explain. To complicate the issue, WP Suspension has retained the original XACT versus XPLOR naming protocol for their range of aftermarket WP ‘Pro’ suspension components. So the specificallyĭifferentiated naming is needed to reinforce it’s not the same component on Management, picked up the error, we made the changes to correct the namingīecause the XACT shock is a key differentiation point for Husqvarna, and quiteĭifferent to the XPLOR PDS version found on KTM. The incorrect sticker on some of the produced enduro models.
Husqvarnas use a linkage shock, some made the mistake of labelling them XPLORīecause it was fitted to an enduro model. Shock with the same technology found on its motocross range. Use XPLOR, but did not take into account that Husqvarna uses the linkage rear WP was under the impression that all Motocross models use XACT and all Enduro models There was a mix up at WP regarding the naming of the rear shock for Husqvarna. Husqvarna factory’s Head of Product Management, Justin Maxwell, explains, “Yes, To media outlets to Husqvarna personnel around the world – we figured it was Widespread confusion about the new Huskys’ componentry – from owners to dealers Started rolling off the production line in Austria. Suspension and Husqvarna caused a discrepancy in the naming protocol of shockĪbsorbers a discrepancy picked up after the 2020 Huskys Hell is going on here? The short answer is that a miscommunication between WP To the XPLOR shock that’s fitted to KTM’s enduro range. Production runs, anyway) come with an XPLOR sticker, these machines are in factįitted with a WP XACT shock absorber. Of the fact the WP shock absorbers on Husky’s 2020 FE and TE models (for early Sticker on their shock reservoir, right? Well, kind of. These bikes also run a WP XPLOR shock absorber, as confirmed by the “XPLOR” 2020-model enduro bikes are fitted with WP’s XPLOR fork, right? Right.