I have to agree. In fact I keep finding my self saying things to my kids and then realizing things are a lot different. EZ to discount our young as worthless losers (many of course are not) and not doing the right thing but IMHO we (our generation) handed them a bag of crap and no real opportunity. IMHO we did this when we started the global economy and did not protect ourselves (speaking about the USA here). Now it is a race to the bottom price wise, screw the long term effects. My generation with NAFTA and MANY other giveaways, turning a blind eye to china's currency manipulation, lack of real import taxes, and we love to outsource our slavery to third world countries. When I graduated high school the dot com boom was in full swing and I had endless job offers for way more money than I was worth. Now my kids graduate at the top of the class, are great kids and their opportunities are far more limited so much so they are now competing with people 20 years older than them for jobs people that age did not even used to do. Add to all this this generation was brought up with the web and social media. Its NOTHING like I was brought up and the information they have access to is limitless. Things are changing very fast and you can see the effects of it everywhere, politics, economic classes, communication, everything. Then there is our population, that's really going to be the end of us. Its a bold new world, hold on...
http://www.shineray.com/products-liebiao.asp?id=75 http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=933937 Just not in the USA yet. I like this SWM, just maybe a different tank. https://translate.google.com/transl...cles.it/SilverVase440.html&edit-text=&act=url
Nice looking motorcycle hope swm make a 360 motored supermoto humm with ohlins shocks and lectrons as standard an uber bright led lights, if the chinese make it i could buy one new for less than a grand! Happy days.
Wow, talk about retro, it's cool except for the awkward tank design. The old Rotax air cooled 600 single engine would be nice in that bike. It kinda resembles that engine to a degree. It will be interesting to see how it develops. The older Husky TE610/630 engines were stout and had a nice 6 spd gearbox.
Historically the Chinese invented capitalism hundreds of years before the Western World did Then we "stuffed-it" with the Central banking system
Hi guys, I am working on a deal to become an SWM dealer this coming month. So I can already tell you some things. First of all the brand is completely independent from Chinese company. Even all the parts are from European suppliers (except for a few parts from the retro's). They have a state-of-the-art complex build by BMW for the old Husqvarna and even hired all the good Husqvarna employees! One goal for the Chinese is using the brand to get some sales in the US and Europe, because they know it is not going to work with Shineray bikes. Also they will use SWM as their "R&D center" for all their brands. THAT is the main goal. In the coming weeks there will be a presentation of the final models. These are some of the changes: SWM 650 (former 630) will come as SWM RS650 (TE) and SWM SM650 (SM). The color black will not come, because it was not liked by the general public. It will be the white/red/yellow SWM colors. SWM SM450 will be a SWM SM500. The retro's will have less angular gas tanks to appear more "vintage". There will be two retro's: the scrambler-like Silver Vase and a cafe-racer which is a combination of the brown, green and blue retro. I believe that these will be the only bikes that will not run on Husqvarna engines, but older Honda engines. The first bike will be produced in July. This will be a batch of 650's. This will be followed by enduro's and finally the retro's. Prices will be between 5900 and 8000 euros in the Netherlands (so around 5000-7500 in the rest of Europe). For the future big changes are coming: a 125cc line-up, more two-strokes (including the secret two-stroke concept the original Husky was working on), maybe even a 900cc and more! Soooooo expect more pics and info the next 3-4 weeks. Erik Italhusky.com
It took longer because the parts have to be bought from Rotax. However KTM didn't have a agreement with Rotax and has some bad blood from the past. However all that is fixed now and they have their agreement.
Hey Erik I just looked at your web http://italhusky.com/ and I'm impressed!! you have schematics for all the parts and pricing, fantastic....I will be placing an order shortly. You should promote yourself on here, we need someone who knows our bikes and is keen to help all owners around the world. Cheers Mike
Thanks Mike, I am currently working on the final 10% of the schematics and adding the older bikes (pre-2004). Also I am working on a CafeHusky sponsorship. Erik
Really looking forward to the first batch of 600cc, especially the SM version. Speaking of Italhusky, I ordered from them a couple of weeks ago, and I can happily recommend them (and no, I'm in no way affiliated with them).
Depends if I have it on stock. If so then within 1-3 days in Europe and 3-8 days outside of Europe. If not then I just order them from the factory and it usually (95% of the time) arrives within 5 working days (Monday-Friday) at my office.
