A love letter to Husqvarna Vitpilen 701

This was the first motorcycle I bought with my heart and not my head. It&rsquo;s wildly impractical. You cannot take much for trips, since the only practical luggage options are a tank bag and a backpack. The Husqvarna Vitpilen 701 had the most powerful single-cylinder engine ever installed in a mass-production motorcycle, until the Ducati Hypermotard 698 Mono was released last year. It surpassed…