The Husqvarna industrial company began motorcycle production in 1903. Off-road competition later became the brand’s defining arena, particularly in motocross and enduro. Ownership changed repeatedly, but the Husqvarna name continued to move between competition motorcycles and distinctive road machines such as the Nuda, 701 and Norden.
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Motor Museum · Motorcycles · Since 1903
Husqvarna
Husqvarna’s motorcycle history stretches from early road machines to championship-winning motocross, supermoto and modern Scandinavian-styled street bikes.
1903motorcycle era begins
Swedenorigin
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6catalogue bikes
Origins
Husqvarna Vapenfabriks and its motorcycle division
Read the manufacturer through the machines that changed its engineering, racing, design, market or cultural meaning.
Featured bikes
Three turning points.
The featured layer picks the motorcycles that most clearly changed this manufacturer’s technology, market or identity.
Silverpilen
1955 · classic
Silverpilen
A road bike that helped seed the talent and lightweight philosophy behind Husqvarna’s later motocross success.
400 Cross
1969 · motocross
400 Cross
A machine closely associated with the international rise of European motocross and Husqvarna’s off-road legend.
TE 610
1991 · enduro
TE 610
A bridge between specialist enduro competition and the modern dual-sport motorcycle.
Museum catalogue
Bikes through time.
Each bike is treated like a museum object: what it was, why it mattered and where it sits in the manufacturer’s wider story.
1950s
1960s
1990s
2010s
2012–2013 · roadster
Nuda 900 R
The Nuda used a heavily revised BMW parallel twin in an unusually styled, short-lived roadster created during BMW ownership.
Why it matters: A fascinating ownership-era experiment that does not fit neatly into Husqvarna’s traditional off-road narrative.
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Nuda 900 R
2016–present · supermoto
701 Supermoto
The 701 Supermoto applies a very large single-cylinder engine and competition-derived geometry to a road-going supermoto package.
Why it matters: A modern continuation of Husqvarna’s lightweight single-cylinder performance tradition on asphalt.
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701 Supermoto