Big Dog Husky Xt
BIG DOG HUSKY XT
Big, but no dog
The main thing you need to know about the Husky XT is 107 cubic inches. That’s the S&S V-Twin’s displacement, and that giant lump of ore solidly mounted in its raked-out chassis never stops asserting itself. Your whole riding experience is colored by it, and after one twist of the fat, rubber-ribbed chrome throttle, nothing else matters anyway.
It’s an experience full of sound, vibration and acceleration that has that typically phenomenal lunge associated with biginch cus-
toms. As a
sidenote, our testbike featured a tunable baffle in its 2-into-1 Hooker exhaust said to alter the power character from top-end bias (insofar as 5000 rpm is top end), to midrange torque. Tuned for power, it ground out 97 bhp and didn’t seem to be lacking torque at 105 foot-pounds at its 3800-rpm peak. Some 85 ft.-lbs. were on tap at just 2200 rpm! Apparently this is why wheelspin proved to be such an entertaining problem at the dragstrip. Still, the Husky blammo’ed its way through the quarter in 12.19 seconds at 111.01 mph. Not so bad for a “husky” custom. Perhaps it was suitable, then, that our tester was the $22,250 XT version with dragbars and bobbed rear fender, as opposed to the “regular” $21,500 Husky, which comes equipped with mini ape-hangers and a long rear fender.
As per the usual, Big Dog (www.bigdogmotorcycles.com) can apply custom paint as wild as your wallet can command, and there are plenty of other options available, such as a windscreen, sissybar and even saddlebags. All of which are quick-release so you can get right back to riding that naked beast of a motor.
Mark Hoyer
