• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

SWM 650 -> The 630 returns!

Great pic! I wonder what the dealer network will be - nothing shown on Mojo's website yet.

It'll be interesting to see whether Australian buyers give them a go. We have all the entrenched brands here so I think SWM will need to be a fair bit cheaper to warrant the risk of buying an unknown product. I really hope they succeed though.

My 630 is now 4 years old with almost 24,000 kms on it, so perhaps the 650 may be an option to trade in on when the time comes.
 
Russ said:
Great pic! I wonder what the dealer network will be - nothing shown on Mojo's website yet.

It'll be interesting to see whether Australian buyers give them a go. We have all the entrenched brands here so I think SWM will need to be a fair bit cheaper to warrant the risk of buying an unknown product. I really hope they succeed though.

My 630 is now 4 years old with almost 24,000 kms on it, so perhaps the 650 may be an option to trade in on when the time comes.
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Just wondering, how the 630 has treated ya?
 
I'm in South Africa. With its value-challenged currency, 7000 Euros translates into an expensive bike here. Maybe 90% of the cost of a 690. I really hope SWM make it here, but at those prices they'll struggle to sell many.
 
The prices in germany are much cheaper. The RS300R is about 5990€ within tax.

Tax/"Mehrwertsteuer" in germany is at 19%.
 
dudeonweb said:
Just wondering, how the 630 has treated ya?
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It's been a fantastic bike - I still love it.

It required a little fettling at first, as do most bikes, but after that it's been as reliable as most bike's I've owned and I dare say twice the fun! I've just had it serviced, so valve clearances checked, new D606s & HD tubes front & rear, new rear brake pads etc. Ready to roll again tomorrow!
 
It must be an Italian marketing technique: lots of pictures of the factory, but no images or videos yet of regular riders on bikes that arent posed publicity shots, no info on early access demo bikes, no announcements of events where you get a demo ride, no announcement of bikes being sent to HardAlpi or other enthusiast rides, no announcement of race teams or event sponsorship, no notices on partnerships for add-ons and accessories... in fact nothing to fan interest before the bikes arrive in the shops at all. Strange.
 
Actually, they allowed people to try the bikes during the WEC in Rovetta, Italy. I had read something about it but, when I went there, I didn't find the area where people where allowed to ride them (it was the first time in which I went and saw an enduro race; I didn't know how the paddock was like). I thought that it was just a false rumor. Later, on their facebook page, I found out the relating announcement and I thought ":doh:".
Here is a video of a skilled rider:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKNDVK67LzY
 
The first SWM has arrived at our importer! Funny to see it standing next to the SM630 of one of their employees.

Erik
Italhusky.com

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So when do we get to see a side by side, apples to apples performance and quality comparison?
 
Erik Italhusky said:
The SWM has about 60bhp. Quality wise I see lots of little improvements. First two things I noticed: brake fluid reservoirs on steer and a different saddle.
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Well it's a SMS vs a "TE" so the front brake resevoir will be smaller and aluminum on the SWM.
 
Is the front rubber mounted backwards on the rim? Seems like it is. At a glance it looks like a Heidi K60.
 
EricV said:
Is the front rubber mounted backwards on the rim? Seems like it is. At a glance it looks like a Heidi K60.
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Directional street-oriented tires on the front are designed "backwards" from a rear tire to better clear water under braking, while the rears are designed to clear water under acceleration.
Avon Distanzias are an exception.

ETA: Notice the directional tread here with the Michelin PP3:

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