• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

Erik Italhusky said:
PRESS LAUNCH IN BERGAMO on the 19th, 20th and 21st of June !
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Actually, the Enduro World Championship will be hosted in some towns near Bergamo, on the mountains. Since those places have the closest twisty roads to my home, I used to go there with my 610 when I used it on the road (now I use it only on tracks). The SWM will be there and will show the new bikes, there will be a press launch and they will also allow people to try the 500 and 300 on a specific, temporary circuit they will build. I'm considering to go there, enjoy the races, see those SWMs and maybe try one of them. I hope it will be sunny! EDIT: https://www.google.it/?gfe_rd=cr&ei...gws_rd=ssl#q=rovetta+bergamo+weather+forecast :doh:
This is the (very long) leaflet of the event, including the history of it; unfortunately, it's in Italian only.
 
This is awesome:banana:I would rather slit my wrists than have to buy an Austrian Husky. My SM630 is my favorite bike ever and my 310 is my 2nd favorite bike ever. I just love the Italian built bikes, I can see some SWM's coming my way if they come to Australia.
 
Chillybean said:
This is awesome:banana:I would rather slit my wrists than have to buy an Austrian Husky. My SM630 is my favorite bike ever and my 310 is my 2nd favorite bike ever. I just love the Italian built bikes, I can see some SWM's coming my way if they come to Australia.
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The 650 sale in Australia starts next month. :)
 
The new 650 has the same bore and stroke as the 630. The suspension specs are not in line with the 630. IDK if they messed up on posting the SM specs on the R page, but either way the travel is 1 to 2 inches less at both ends?
 
Apparently marzocchi is getting out of the motorcycle suspension biz, so the front may be different, if not right away, but eventually anyway.
 
Comparing the specs on the RS 650R/TE630/TE610 (see attached): lower seat hight, less ground clearance, less suspension travel, a narrower gearbox... it looks like a less aggressively dirt-oriented bike. I hoped things might go in the opposite direction. One positive piece of news is that they have lowered the weight, but still not to the 610 levels. There's currently no HP ratings. The narrower gearbox is a curious decision. One of the sweet things about the 610 is its wide gearing.

I think I'll hold onto my 610, and hope SWM's next dual-sport offerings cater more to the light-weight adventure crowd... I'd be more interested in a sub-500cc pakage with a luggage-worthy subframe, long-range gas tank, reliability, and long service intervals. Both KTM's 390 Adventure bike (about to be released in India - see here) and the CCM 450 are chasing this idea.
 

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JonDirt said:
Comparing the specs 650/630/610 (see attached): lower seat hight, less ground clearance, less suspension travel, a narrower gearbox... it looks like a less aggressively dirt-oriented bike. I hoped things might go in the opposite direction. One positive piece of news is that they have lowered the weight, but still not to the 610 levels. There's currently no HP ratings. The narrower gearbox is a curious decision. One of the sweet things about the 610 is its wide gearing.

I think I'll hold onto my 610, and hope SWM's next dual-sport offerings cater more to the light-weight adventure crowd... I'd be more interested in a sub-500cc pakage with a luggage-worthy subframe, long-range gas tank, reliability, and long service intervals. Both KTM's 390 Adventure bike (about to be released in India - see here) and the CCM 450 are chasing this idea.
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The 650R is a supermoto, so the specs are in line with the 630SMS, not the TE, hence the shorter travel, lower clearance, lower weight and shorter 5th and 6th.

If i ever rebuild the lower end on my SMS, I'll probably swap in some TE 5th/6th gears for smoother highway cruising.
 
RDTCU said:
The 650R is a supermoto, so the specs are in line with the 630SMS.
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Thanks - The specs were pulled from the RS 650 R (Enduro) page, so I am comparing the 21"/18" TE610, TE630, and RS 650 R Enduro, not the supermotos. I edited my post to clarify.

Also, in my workshop manual, the TE610 and SM610 2008 have the same gearbox ratios (?)
 
JonDirt said:
Thanks - The specs were pulled from the RS 650 R (Enduro) page, not the supermoto page - so I am comparing the 21"/18" TE610, TE630, and RS 650 R Enduro. I edited my post to clarify.

Also, in my workshop manual, the TE610 and SM610 2008 have the same gearbox ratios (?)
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I think they copied/pasted and didn't update for the RS.
The 610's are the same between models, but the 630 TE has a higher 5th and 6th than the 630 SMS for cruising due to having a lower sprocket ratio.
 
RDTCU said: The TE610, TE630 and SM610 all have the same gearbox, but the 630 SM has a narrower 5th and 6th than all the others, and when SM 630 owners ever rebuild the lower end, they probably swap in some TE 5th/6th gears for smoother highway cruising.


There. Fixed that for you :-)


RDTCU said:
I think they copied/pasted and didn't update for the RS.
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Hope so. It does look like they have listed the SM 630 gearbox on the RS 650 R page. The other specs are all different between the SuperMoto and Enduro pages. Lets just hope its a typo.
 
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Any members who went to Bergamo?

Source: https://www.facebook.com/swm.benelux?fref=photo

Erik
Italhusky.com
 
They look like they are taking this very seriously and making some good choices. Like what I see. Interesting.
 
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