Not a Husky, but interesting bike, Italian SWM 370 GS

[adam6402]

 

[endurokids]

I love it!
An orange bike that I would allow in my garage!

 

[HuskyDude]

Reminds me of the old 370 Can am Qualifiers.

 

[Kartwheel68]

Reminds me of the old 370 Can am Qualifiers.

Same Rotax engine, except the SWMs have excellent chassis that dont handle like a dump truck full of bowling balls with flat front tires like the Canned Hams.

 

[Joe Chod]

Same Rotax engine, except the SWMs have excellent chassis that dont handle like a dump truck full of bowling balls with flat front tires like the Canned Hams.

No love for the Canned Ham huh? I rode them for years and I learned to deal with the ill handling because I never had to worry that there was "enough" motor.

 

[Motosportz]

There as an all euro bike shop in the town i grew up in, had Ossa's SWM, Penten, bunch of cool stuff. Those guys must have got real tired of me riding my bike over there every afternoon and spending an hour drooling on the bikes. the SWM were my favorite.

 

[Kartwheel68]

I love Canned Hams, I have 7 of them! The engines are really really good, but they do not handle well at all. The 175 Rotax especially is so much faster and at the same time has a wider spread of power compared to every other 175 its like cheating, it more than makes up for the horrible chassis.

 

[HuskyDude]

I loved my TNT 175 way more than my 250. Much better bike.
But when I got the 370...ooooooh

 

[troy deck]

that would be a cool brand to see come back ol sammy wayne still kickin i think

 

[street2dirt]

Now that's just cool...

 

[WayneL]

A couple of guys over here have SWM's, one has the 370 version as pictured. They are really nice bikes, well designed (chain stays in place when you change a rear tyre), beautiful to look at, handle well and go like stink. I had a 400 Qualifer way back when, the dump truck analogy is a good one, mine didn't stop either, but boy did it go....

 

[Kartwheel68]

The way the Canned Hams handle is the strangest thing I have ever felt, at least the earlier white tank bikes. They feel like they are pushing the front wheel even when they are going straight. I spent two full years working on my '74 TNT175 trying to make it not feel like that and I just gave up. I dont know if its something in the frame geometry or how the tank is really long and puts you too far from the bars...I never could figure it out. Everything I did to it had no effect, it always felt exactly the same. The funny thing is, I could go really fast on the bike, and I won a lot of races on it, but I felt like I continually having to chase the front wheel to keep it from washing out, even going straight, and the front wheel followed roots really bad too. Oh yeah, and the brakes were hideous.

One thing I can say for sure, anyone that complains about a Husky not turning good enough has never ridden a Canned Ham.

 

[Kartwheel68]

One thing that I did like about that bike was the primary kickstart, and the 175 barely even turned over and it would start. For dead engine cross country races I got a lot of holeshots.

 

[juicypips]

never ridden one heard of them or seen one in action but i love them already an i want one

 

[Freaky]

There was a write up on one of these in a UK mag a few months back, SWM stands for Speedy Working Motors!! Cool name.

 

[troy deck]

There was a write up on one of these in a UK mag a few months back, SWM stands for Speedy Working Motors!! Cool name.

i like that ur funny speedy working motors lLMFAO

 

[troy deck]

never ridden one heard of them or seen one in action but i love them already an i want one

A Can-am or SWM