icebergstu
Husqvarna
AA Class
Former Cagiva and Aprlia project engineer Ampelio Macchi found an investor from China Daxing Gong, owner of Shineray Group.
Macchi was able to convince Gong that the time was right to invest in a highly specialized Italian motorcycle with a name that would still strike a chord with ISDT and Supermoto enthusiasts: SWM.
This resurrected SWM acquired the former Husky Factory that the late Claudio Castiglioni had established in Biandronno.
Macchi has lots of experience with high-performance four-stroke singles and light twins, having designed and brought to full development all Cagiva, Cagiva-owned Husqvarna, and Aprilia singles, plus the hill fated, but very creative ?supermoto? 350/450cc 77-degree V-twins
Thanks to the prompt and massive investments the Shineray Group poured into the Biandronno factory, Macchi needed only nine months to turn one of his earlier projects he had developed into a real bike. His determination paid off. The first model to roll off the assembly line is the RS650R, a beautiful, lean and aggressive enduro bike powered by the DOHC four-stroke single that Macchi had designed for the then Cagiva-owned Husqvarna
From everything I have read, Ampelio Macchi is a Master Automotive Engineer and has taken a very well designed bike and quite possibly the best Dual sport bike ever to hit the market (TE610/630) and refined and improved it to create the SWM RS650R. He originally designed it all those years ago. He has also taken the bike Meo won the WEC on and improved that too. He has added a 500 which would be the TE510 and refined it plus plans to add Super Motos to the line up.
There will be 2 LOW COST general-purpose runabouts to the lineup: the Silver Vase 440 scrambler, and the Gran Milano 440 touring. These are powered by air-cooled SOHC engines originally designed by the Chinese technicians at the Shineray Group and then enlarged to a real 435cc displacement (90mm bore, 70mm stroke) and upgraded with a new, more effective lubrication system that has oil jets to cool the inner face of the piston top. These models will be marketed at very low price and are intended primarily for the far and south east markets. Macchi is very positive about the future of the SWM, thanks to the quality of the products and the booming Asian market.
I took all this information for a number of different sites and copied and pasted plenty of the above text. I cant find anything on SWM 2T bikes though. Maybe with Emission standards intensifying the ROI just wont make it worth it. Remember he would have to report weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly to Daxing.
These two remind me of Pierer and Bajaj...
I think what they are doing is bloody fantastic and wish them all the best. I will certainly take into consideration any of these bikes in future.
Stu
Macchi was able to convince Gong that the time was right to invest in a highly specialized Italian motorcycle with a name that would still strike a chord with ISDT and Supermoto enthusiasts: SWM.
This resurrected SWM acquired the former Husky Factory that the late Claudio Castiglioni had established in Biandronno.
Macchi has lots of experience with high-performance four-stroke singles and light twins, having designed and brought to full development all Cagiva, Cagiva-owned Husqvarna, and Aprilia singles, plus the hill fated, but very creative ?supermoto? 350/450cc 77-degree V-twins
Thanks to the prompt and massive investments the Shineray Group poured into the Biandronno factory, Macchi needed only nine months to turn one of his earlier projects he had developed into a real bike. His determination paid off. The first model to roll off the assembly line is the RS650R, a beautiful, lean and aggressive enduro bike powered by the DOHC four-stroke single that Macchi had designed for the then Cagiva-owned Husqvarna
From everything I have read, Ampelio Macchi is a Master Automotive Engineer and has taken a very well designed bike and quite possibly the best Dual sport bike ever to hit the market (TE610/630) and refined and improved it to create the SWM RS650R. He originally designed it all those years ago. He has also taken the bike Meo won the WEC on and improved that too. He has added a 500 which would be the TE510 and refined it plus plans to add Super Motos to the line up.
There will be 2 LOW COST general-purpose runabouts to the lineup: the Silver Vase 440 scrambler, and the Gran Milano 440 touring. These are powered by air-cooled SOHC engines originally designed by the Chinese technicians at the Shineray Group and then enlarged to a real 435cc displacement (90mm bore, 70mm stroke) and upgraded with a new, more effective lubrication system that has oil jets to cool the inner face of the piston top. These models will be marketed at very low price and are intended primarily for the far and south east markets. Macchi is very positive about the future of the SWM, thanks to the quality of the products and the booming Asian market.
I took all this information for a number of different sites and copied and pasted plenty of the above text. I cant find anything on SWM 2T bikes though. Maybe with Emission standards intensifying the ROI just wont make it worth it. Remember he would have to report weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly to Daxing.
These two remind me of Pierer and Bajaj...
I think what they are doing is bloody fantastic and wish them all the best. I will certainly take into consideration any of these bikes in future.
Stu
