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Replacing the Svartpilen 701, the 2024 Husqvarna Svartpilen 801 has a larger, twin-cylinder engine, new electronics, fresh styling, and more. (Photos by Marco Campelli & Sebas Romero) Known for decades as a dirtbike brand, Husqvarna expanded its lineup to include streetbikes following its acquisition by KTM in 2013. Its most visually striking models are the Svartpilen (“Black Arrow” in Swedish) and Vitpilen (“White Arrow”), which were available in 401 and 701 versions and used single-cylinder engines adapted from the KTM 390 Duke (373cc) and 690 Duke (693cc). Vitpilens had modern cafe racer styling, while the Svartpilens leaned into the street tracker look. Husqvarna Svartpilen 801 | Bigger is Better For 2024, the lineup has been pared down to three models: Svartpilen 401, Svartpilen 801, and Vitpilen 401. The evolution of the Svartpilen 701 to 801 comes with a new engine platform – the 799cc LC8c parallel-Twin that’s also found in the KTM 790 Duke and 790 Adventure. Look familiar? The Svartpilen 801’s 799cc parallel-Twin is also found in the KTM 790 Duke and 790 Adventure. Though it doesn’t have as strong of a scrambler aesthetic as the Svartpilen 401, which has spoked wheels shod with knobby tires, the 801 nonetheless looks ready for a bare-knuckled brawl. It has a dark color palette: blacked-out engine, chassis, and wheels and a matte-black tank cover, which has sharp edges and flat sides – a common design element on all ’Pilens. There are a few bright spots of silver, such as the sharply upswept exhaust pipe, vestigial skid plate, and brushed-aluminum radiator shrouds, but no pops of color. One of the most visually and functionally interesting parts of the 801 is the subframe. Rather than a tubular-steel trellis or some other framework covered with plastic bodywork, the Svartpilen’s tailsection is a cast-aluminum monocoque with integrated air intakes, and the airbox is housed inside. The Svartpilen 801’s cast-aluminum subframe is a work of art. We had a chance to give the Svartpilen 801 a good flog at a press launch Husqvarna hosted in Provence, a region in southern France known for its wine, lavender, and olives. The region’s topography is like a scrunched-up carpet, with craggy mountains crisscrossed with narrow, ridiculously twisty roads. Part of the Tour de France goes through Provence, so it was a common occurrence to rip around a blind corner and come upon a mini-peloton of cyclists hogging the road. Excusez-moi, mes amis! Beep! Beep! Coming through! Riding a new motorcycle on some of the best roads in Europe is always fun, and it helps make up for the dismal pay here in the motojournalism salt mines. But our test ride on the Svartpilen 801 really hit the redline on the old Fun-o-meter because we were a small, tight-knit group of American guys who knew each other well. It was like being on a hair-on-fire Sunday ride with a few mates – a fast-moving pack, like a school of barracuda. We were all there to do our jobs, but it didn’t feel like work. Anyway, back to the bike. I love it! The End. j/k A fun bike on fun roads. Husqvarna Svartpilen 801 | More Power, Less Filling Adding an extra cylinder has transformed the larger Svartpilen. Claimed horsepower has increased from 75 to 105 (at 9,250 rpm), and torque has gone up from 53.1 lb-ft to 64.2 (at 8,000 rpm). Wet weight has gone up too, from 355 lb to 421, but the pounds each horsepower needs to push around has dropped from 4.73 to 4.0. The 801’s Twin spins up eagerly, its exhaust note is spicy, and its throttle-by-wire delivers immediate response. Not surprisingly, the Black Arrow has a dark color palette. Ye Olde Blacke Arrowe has an upright motocross-style tapered aluminum handlebar with a cross-brace and a seating position that’s part supermoto, part sport standard, and all fun, just right for attacking corners as if they were a hot plate of French fries. The footpegs are positioned high enough to offer good cornering clearance but low enough for reasonable all-day comfort. Same goes for the wide, flat seat, which is perched at an agreeable 32.3 inches and covered with a grippy material that includes ribs for your pleasure (or, according to Husqvarna, “heat-stamped ribs providing additional comfort and improved traction in wet conditions”). The Svartpilen 801’s round headlight and flat-sided gas tank are common design elements on other ‘Pilens. Above the Svartpilen’s big, round LED headlight – a design element also found on other ’Pilens as well as the Norden 901 adventure models – is a wee windscreen that’s more stylish than functional. Behind the screen is a de rigueur 5-inch color TFT with vivid graphics, easy-to-use menus for customizing the bike’s electronics, and smartphone connectivity (navigation, calls, and music). Take your pick from several ride modes (Sport, Street, and Rain), and cornering ABS with rear-off Supermoto mode, lean-sensitive traction control, and an up/down quickshifter are all part of the deal. For an extra $419.99, you can add Dynamic mode, which includes an on-the-fly rear-wheel slip adjuster, wheelie control, and motor slip regulation. Cruise control will set you back another $288.99. Related: Husqvarna Norden 901 Expedition Review Ribbed for your pleasure. Husqvarna Svartpilen 801 | Riding Impressions Our test ride started on a cold, damp morning, and I was a little hesitant to push the Svartpilen, especially with its semi-knobby Pirelli MT 60 RS tires. The front wheel is now 17 inches in diameter, which gives the 801 a nimbler feel than with the 18-incher on the 701. At our jackrabbit pace through hairpins, quick back-and-forth transitions, and varying camber and road surface, the Svartpilen was unflappable, its steering damper quelling any twitchiness and the Pirellis holding firm to the tarmac. The Svartpilen 801 is an agile machine that loves to lean. Contributing to the Svarpilen’s coolness under pressure is WP Apex suspension, which has impressed us on other Husqvarna and KTM models. The 43mm inverted fork is adjustable for compression and rebound via fork-top five-position clickers, the single shock is adjustable for rebound and spring preload, and there’s 5.5/5.9 inches of front/rear travel. Damping is well-controlled and strikes a balance between sportiness and comfort like an El Camino strikes a balance between a car and a pickup.   Look, wildflowers! Wait – don’t look – it’s a long way down. Rounding hundreds of curves while going up and down mountains and around lakes, all while dodging les cyclistes en spandex, we were constantly on and off the gas, on and off the brakes. Our bikes weren’t equipped with cruise control, but even if they were, we wouldn’t have had an opportunity to use it. The Svartpilen’s J.Juan brakes, with a pair of 4-piston radial front calipers squeezing 300mm discs, a 2-piston rear caliper pinching a 240mm discs, and steel-braided hydraulic lines, performed admirably, scrubbing off speed in fine increments and delivering as much stopping power as I needed when I needed it. Happiness is a road full of curves but empty of traffic. Husqvarna Svartpilen 801 | Final Thoughts Husqvarna has carved out an interesting niche in the streetbike world. Its Svartpilen and Vitpilen naked bikes and Norden adventure bikes have unique styling that stands well apart from the competition, they’re powered by proven KTM engines, and they’re equipped with high-quality components and features. Testing Dynamic mode. All that’s well and good, but it’s the magic mix of 11 herbs and spices that really matters. We don’t ride spec sheets, and we can’t look at a bike when we’re riding it. How does it make us feel? Excited? Heroic? Twenty years younger? The Svartpilen 801 is fun to ride. It quickened my pulse, tingled my nerves, and made me wish I could just keep riding it rather than fly home, sit at my desk, and write 1,200 words about it. It may be called the Black Arrow, but it warmed my heart. Check out more new bikes in Rider’s 2024 Motorcycle Buyers Guide The 2024 Husqvarna Svartpilen 801 delivers the goods for $10,899. 2024 Husqvarna Svartpilen 801 Specs Base Price: $10,899 Price as Tested: $11,319 (Dynamic mode) Website: Husqvarna-Motorcycles.com Warranty: 2 yrs., unltd. miles Engine Type: Liquid-cooled, transverse parallel-Twin, DOHC w/ 4 valves per cyl. Displacement: 799cc Bore x Stroke: 88.0 x 65.7mm Horsepower: 105 hp @ 9,250 rpm (factory claim) Torque: 64.2 lb-ft @ 8,000 rpm (factory claim) Transmission: 6-speed, cable-actuated slip/assist wet clutch Final Drive: Chain Wheelbase: 54.6 in. Rake/Trail: 24.5 degrees/3.9 in. Seat Height: 32.3 in. Wet Weight: 421 lb Fuel Capacity: 3.7 gal. The post 2024 Husqvarna Svartpilen 801 Review | First Ride appeared first on Rider Magazine.

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Good News! Democrats agree that defying a congressional subpoena means that you belong in jail and that no one is above the law. That, of course, must carry over to Attorney General Merrick Garland as the top law enforcement officer in the land. No One Is Above the Law Except Dems He will not respond […] The post 3-Minutes of Democrats Demanding Jail for Defying a Subpoena appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants Congress to seize control of a separate and independent branch of government. She wants a dictatorship, and we almost have one. “Yeah, well, I mean, of course, Justice Alito’s position is laughable in this,” AOC says. “This idea that he can be and that the court should be accountable to nobody. And […] The post AOC Threatens Constitutionalist Justices and Democracy appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Joe Biden’s economy, much like Joe Biden, continues to show confusion about where it wants to go. On the surface, the economy seems to be doing great. Unemployment is relatively low at 4%, the S&P 500 and NASDAQ have recently set new records, and the growth of the inflation rate seems to have slowed, given the May Consumer Price Index coming in at 3.3% year-over-year. However, scratch below the surface, and the economy is on very shaky footing. The May jobs report was an unmitigated disaster. The U.S. economy added 272,000 jobs in May 2024. That seems like good news. But it isn’t, once you get below the headline numbers. The overall number of people in the workforce shrank by 250,000 in May and the overall labor force participation rate fell to 62.5%, meaning fewer people are actively looking for work. The largest employment gains came from government jobs and low-paying jobs in the healthcare system. The government sector has been one of the major contributors to job growth under President Biden. This is not a good sign for the private economy, as the government should be shrinking, not growing. What is worse is that full-time workers declined by 625,000, while those holding part-time positions increased by 286,000. In addition, in May, 414,000 immigrants, both legal and illegal, gained jobs, while 663,000 native-born Americans lost jobs. This may be why wage growth continues to be low, with immigrants taking low-paying jobs, suppressing the overall wage rate. The Consumer Price Index, the measure of inflation in the United States rose 3.3% in May 2024, slightly less than April’s increase of 3.4%, driven primarily by the cost of housing. While the slowing of the rate price increases is welcome, prices are still up more than 7.5% over the past two years and, overall, prices are up nearly 20% since Joe Biden took office in January 2021. The cumulative impact of inflation, combined with high interest rates, is putting the dream of home ownership further out of reach for most young and working-class Americans. Not only are homes at record high prices, with the median home price over $400,000, the cost of maintaining a home has risen dramatically. A recent study by Bankrate aggregated the average costs of property taxes, insurance, home maintenance costs, and utilities, finding that maintaining the typical home costs more than $18,000 per year, for a typical home valued at $436,000. This is an additional $1,510 per month on top of the monthly mortgage payment, up 26% over the past four years. Homeowners’ insurance rates are up nearly 40% since 2019. Add this to the fact that mortgage rates are hovering around 7%, for a thirty-year fixed-rate mortgage. It is no wonder that the demographics of those living at home with their parents has changed. Mom and Dad’s basement is no longer reserved for the unemployed slacker who spends his days playing video games, eating frozen pizza, and drinking energy drinks. Today, it is college graduates who are moving home, with 32% of college graduates returning to their childhood bedrooms in an effort to save money for an apartment or a house. It isn’t just home insurance. Auto insurance rates are also up nearly 23% over the past twelve months. In addition, the interest rates needed to finance the purchase of a car continue to be extremely high, ranging from 7 – 15%, depending on one’s credit score, and they are not expected to decrease in 2024. While the headlines sound great — low unemployment, a booming stock market, and a declining rate of inflation growth — the economy is, quite frankly, simply limping along. More importantly, working Americans are struggling to make ends meet. Real spending, which excludes inflation, fell in April 2024, with the American consumer spending less on cars, dining out, and recreational activities. The Federal Reserve Bank’s decision on June 12 to leave interest rates at their current levels shows that the Fed is more concerned with the return of high inflation than about a slowing economy. The Fed will be under tremendous pressure to decrease interest rates after their September meeting, in order to help Joe Biden’s reelection campaign. Will Jerome Powell and the rest of the Fed’s Board of Governors have the courage to remain neutral or will they bow to the power of political pressure? * * * Jim Nelles is a Navy veteran and supply chain consultant based in Chicago. His articles have appeared in the Washington Examiner, Newsweek, Foxnews.com, and the Daily Wire. He has served as a chief procurement officer, chief supply chain officer, and chief operations officer for multiple companies. The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) slammed judicial activists who continually strike down Florida laws that they don’t like only for their rulings to get continuously overturned by higher courts. DeSantis made the remarks on Wednesday after federal Judge Robert Hinkle in Tallahassee, who is one of the left-wing judges who routinely strikes down bills that DeSantis signs into law, batted down Florida’s new law to protect minors from transgender procedures and treatments. “It is wrong to perform a sex change on a 16 year old, you’re not allowed to get a tattoo, but somehow you can have your privates cut off? Give me a break,” DeSantis said. “This is wrong. And I would also say, this has already been decided by the 11th circuit court of appeals, they upheld Alabama’s law, which was almost identical to Florida’s law, this will be reversed. There’s no question it’ll be reversed.” “Think about it, when the founding fathers were creating the Constitution, and when the first Congress passed the Bill of Rights or even when they passed the Reconstruction Amendments in the 1860s, do you think a single person involved in that thought that there was a constitutional right to do this genital mutilation? It’s ridiculous,” he continued. “Of course, a state can protect children against this. And we have very powerful testimony how this is irreversible.” DeSantis said that leftist judges “veto the policy of the state of Florida” constantly and “we lose almost every time and then we win on appeal almost every time. That’s what happens.” “So if you’re not willing to defend Florida’s duly enacted statutes against liberal jurisprudence, then you’re basically saying the people of Florida shouldn’t govern themselves,” he said. “And that we should just turn over our destiny to some trial judge somewhere. That I refuse to do, we are going to stand up for duly enacted statutes, we’re going to stand up for protecting the innocence of these kids. But I would say it goes beyond that. Because what this is doing, when they’re doing a sex change on a teenager, there’s a lot of people that want to make money off that, consequences be damned, they’re lying in their pockets and they could care less about what’s going to happen to that teenager when they become 25 — which many regret and have big time problems as a result of that.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP “But it’s also just a fact of, you use the term ‘gender affirming care’, which is what media uses and what the left uses,” he continued. “You’re not affirming that, you’re trying to change their basic biology, which you cannot do. You cannot do that. You know, how you’re born is what you are. And so I think it’s about are we going to be rooted in truth as a society or not? And if we’re rooted in truth, then you would say, of course, you can’t do the surgeries, because it’s not going to take and transform somebody that’s a male into a female. So we’ll win that appeal.” WATCH: Reporter question from today’s press conference: “Your office told us that you plan to appeal the gender-affirming ruling from yesterday. So my question today, since we’re talking about the budget of taxpayer dollars, why should taxpayer dollars go to this case for the appeal?”… pic.twitter.com/e7WuCdD1bM — Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) June 12, 2024

Billionaire Tom Dundon, who owns the Carolina Hurricanes, said that major donors are backing former President Donald Trump over President Joe Biden because of Biden’s “nonsense.” Dundon made the remarks during a Fox News interview on Wednesday ahead of this fall’s rematch between the two candidates. “Historically, some of the way Trump treats people doesn’t sit well with them when you have choices, but there’s really not many choices anymore,” he said. He added that many people are backing Trump because Biden’s term in office has been disastrous, from his foreign policy, open borders, and surging inflation rates. “Some of the things have gotten to where it’s hard to support nonsense,” he said. Left-leaning POLITICO highlighted the shift among many Wall Street power players, stating that “many high-dollar donors at banks, hedge funds and other financial firms” had “turned their backs on Trump” over his criticism of the 2020 election and the judicial system, but now they are “looking past qualms about his personality” to focus “on issues closer to the heart: how he might ease regulations, cut their taxes or flex U.S. power on the global stage.” Some who are coming back to Trump include Point Bridge Capital founder Hal Lambert, hedge fund executive Nelson Peltz, and hotel mogul Robert Bigelow. Trump “is a much better choice than what we have now. Just check out the four years that Trump was in office versus the three years that President Biden was in office,” said billionaire New York radio station owner and real estate investor John Catsimatidis. “It’s horrible what’s going on.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman is reportedly leaning toward backing Trump because of Biden’s response to the rise in anti-Semitism that has erupted on his watch. Steve Schwarzman, the CEO and co-founder of Blackstone, a private equity and real estate firm, is also coming back to support Trump. Schwarzman said that the “dramatic rise of anti-Semitism has led me to focus on the consequences of upcoming elections with greater urgency.” The 77-year-old businessman added that the Biden administration’s policies on the economy, immigration, and foreign affairs “are taking the country in the wrong direction.” “For these reasons, I am planning to vote for change and support Donald Trump for president,” he said. “In addition, I will be supporting Republican Senate candidates and other Republicans up and down the ticket.”