• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 in the USA

Nice pics !

Not a whole lot of news on SWM USA :

"SWM new model introduction next week in IT, we will be represented by Pete Vetrano........beyond that, we know nothing. At least we will have a face to face meeting to determine how they plan to move forward with USA approvals......It is likely that we are delayed until the 2018 models are ready for testing."

Source : https://www.facebook.com/SWM-Motorcycles-USA-1509674789341001/?rc=p

I suppose IT means Italy ?? :)
 
updates:
SWM Motorcycles USA shared SWM Motorcycles's photo.

Yesterday at 4:40am ·
Tomorrow is the SWM 2018 model introduction day. New models ? New cc displacements? Two strokes? Real off-road racing bikes? V-twin street bike? ....all are rumors that will be "outted" tomorrow as fact or pipe dream. Most of the info will be posted on the SWM MOTORCYCLES facebook page up to 6hrs before we see and share them due to time zone differences. With most of the Euro4 compliance issues behind SWM, hopefully they can press forward with more focus to get bikes into the USA for model year 2018. We want to sell them, you want to buy them, we all want to ride them.
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SWM Motorcycles USA shared SWM Motorcycles's photo.

7 hrs ·
Well, we apologize for the mis-posting of the itinerary for today at SWM. Actually Thursday is apparently the big reveal with test rides for all attendees. So, today is a meet and greet, factory tour, cocktail party reception and dinner. if anything changes we'll update as we go along.
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and with respect to US ETA:
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Mike Rosenberg Getting closer to American sales?
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SWM Motorcycles USA Sure, every day, but he ETA is still unknown by us. We know what SWM has to do for the DOT now, but SWM is in charge of the EPA/CARB testing compliance and they had been distracted by the Euro-4 compliance testing until recently. If you think that the EPA/CARB regs are tuff, the Euro-4 emissions and safety regs are in outer space.
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and with respect to US ETA:
Mike Rosenberg
Getting closer to American sales?

SWM Motorcycles USA
USA Sure, every day, but he ETA is still unknown by us. We know what SWM has to do for the DOT now, but SWM is in charge of the EPA/CARB testing compliance and they had been distracted by the Euro-4 compliance testing until recently. If you think that the EPA/CARB regs are tuff, the Euro-4 emissions and safety regs are in outer space.
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I'm looking forward to these bikes getting to the US. However, I'm going to assume that SWM has absolutely ignored the few, and easily corrected, issues with the 630. Namely clutch basket, sub-frame and the virtual requirement for a cush hub. Anyone hear different? At least there will be a lot of parts for my TE630.
 
The RS650R needs the subframe brace same as the TE630 and the clutch washers need inspecting every 10,000km.
 
On 9/25/17 SWM Motorcycles USA received verbal confirmation that the RS500R model bike has passed the EPA/CARB testing. We will not receive the official confirmation documents until SWM Motorcycles (IT) pays the testing bill in full. The RS500R previously passed the DOT certification and we have received it's certification "book".

Under the current rules, any variant of this motorcycle will have to be tested for some segments of the testing protocol that would possibly affect the emissions in the EPA/CARB segment and any changes such as wheel component size will have to be tested in the DOT protocol. So, don't count on RS500SMs any time soon although we have the components on hand to convert the R version to the SM version. We are expecting a RS650X (with a box of "T" conversion components)to arrive soon to begin testing. No matter what, the 15000K/9000mi durability testing takes about 9 weeks to complete. SWM (IT) has not yet scheduled any RS300Rs for testing as of this posting.

Also, several state DOT/MVA agencies across the USA will need official notification of the approvals before SWM RS500Rs can be sold in those states. At this time I don't have access to the list of those states.

We have a standing order for an initial shipment of RS500Rs. So, it's a matter of time to wait for the production run plus about 30 days to receive them into our facility in Hesperia, CA.
 
Original Dirt said:
On 9/25/17 SWM Motorcycles USA received verbal confirmation that the RS500R model bike has passed the EPA/CARB testing. We will not receive the official confirmation documents until SWM Motorcycles (IT) pays the testing bill in full. The RS500R previously passed the DOT certification and we have received it's certification "book".

Under the current rules, any variant of this motorcycle will have to be tested for some segments of the testing protocol that would possibly affect the emissions in the EPA/CARB segment and any changes such as wheel component size will have to be tested in the DOT protocol. So, don't count on RS500SMs any time soon although we have the components on hand to convert the R version to the SM version. We are expecting a RS650X (with a box of "T" conversion components)to arrive soon to begin testing. No matter what, the 15000K/9000mi durability testing takes about 9 weeks to complete. SWM (IT) has not yet scheduled any RS300Rs for testing as of this posting.

Also, several state DOT/MVA agencies across the USA will need official notification of the approvals before SWM RS500Rs can be sold in those states. At this time I don't have access to the list of those states.

We have a standing order for an initial shipment of RS500Rs. So, it's a matter of time to wait for the production run plus about 30 days to receive them into our facility in Hesperia, CA.
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Any word on pricing? for RS500R and 650X?

also what is included in package, as 650T and 650X are not listed on SWM site
 
I believe I read on their Facebook page that with the exchange rate vs the €, the price will be around $8900.00 However I also read that they won't know for sure until the invoice is seen.
 
Huskynoobee said:
I believe I read on their Facebook page that with the exchange rate vs the €, the price will be around $8900.00 However I also read that they won't know for sure until the invoice is seen.
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Yeah that was for the 500. Sounds bad but kinda over it now. Could have at least started pushing off-road only while the prices were awesome to the rest of us not in CA. Now I've just watched the price jump up while looking at the same bike for years.
 
They're that price down here!!!
$8500 for 300
$9000 for 500 plus ORC($500-$800)

Anymore & they wouldn't sell any I reckon. Mind you with price ktm/husky charge for a 500 still relatively cheap!
 
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