• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

In the RS650R Oz test robertaccio link above, this paragraph doesn't make a lick of sense to me:

"Macchi's resumé is clearly evident in this big enduro: it screams Italian dirt bike DNA and it's powered by a liquid-cooled and fuel-injected four-stroke engine Macchi initially penned for Husqvarna back in the Cagiva days. It wasn't used then, nor when Husky passed into BMW and then KTM ownership, but it's finally found its place in the RS 650 R, which is actually based on the 2010 Husqvarna TE630."
 
makes sense kind of, no? , that engine was designed by Macchi when Husky was under the Cagiva umbrella and purely Italian, it was newest big block TE630 engine , used in the 2010 TE630 not a BMW and for sure not a KTM , so the gist is it is pure Italian Ampelio Macchi engineered powerplant
 
Norman Foley said:
No interest, no focus from this guy.... SWM wins me over with a new 175 2T enduro and their little retro Silver Vase. One to race and trail ride and the other to take the wife for an ice cream and ride down a dirt road. :oldman:
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I agree. That "review" seemed like he only rode the bike through the parking lot, through the gravel to the street and back again.
 
From the little I have read of the Euro4 it sounds like mfg of the small bore 2t's like the 125's may not be done in '17 and beyond, so I bet no sub 250cc 2t's.

The 650/500/300 (Husky) platform SWM have are great bikes I hope to see more of on the trails. I want the SWM 300 as it's a great trail s/t bike. Winter 2017 for the 300 in the USA is not soon enough.
 
XLEnduroMan said:
From the little I have read of the Euro4 it sounds like mfg of the small bore 2t's like the 125's may not be done in '17 and beyond, so I bet no sub 250cc 2t's.

The 650/500/300 (Husky) platform SWM have are great bikes I hope to see more of on the trails. I want the SWM 300 as it's a great trail s/t bike. Winter 2017 for the 300 in the USA is not soon enough.
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Part of this is the Euro4 requirement, that all street bikes have ABS. That's why there is ABS on the 701 Enduro. Putting ABS on 125 2T Enduro bikes, along with emissions requirements might make it tough to do right now.
 
....and from Motocross Action Magazine a nice "shout out" on their website as well today. Thanks to Jody and crew..... http://motocrossactionmag.com/…/swm-speedy-works-motors-to-… unfortunately some info is a little inaccurate, but no big deal.......125 2T ? where did that come from..?

I previously mentioned that the 2Ts were not even on their (SWM) radar until they started getting inquiries from AU, and from Pete Vetrano in person last week.
Since new 2Ts are not permitted to be street ridden in Europe anymore and since riding areas are so far and few between, their initial goal was to get back in the market with their previously developed 4Ts for both on and off-road sales to grow from. The worldwide 2T market is now seriously being looked at by SWM to see how quickly can they bring them to market and how much investment it will take. We requested a 300XC E-start for the US market, and also would be interested in a 150-200XC as well. We don't expect anything to happen soon as they prepare for the 2017s, especially those with US specs which require sourcing some other non-EU components .

The Shineray ownership is actually very interested in competing in off-road series world wide. They will be developing new SWM bikes for MXGP. Shineray actually bought, modded and re-badged, a couple of Yamaha YZ250F bikes with BNGs as Shineray's and raced them in a couple of MXGPs...of course with no name riders and without any success except to get the Shineray - SRM branding out there for the Asian markets. There are so many facets to the R&D at SWM going on that it's hard to keep track. Of course Macchi is the final say on all of the projects....including the 440s for all but the Asian markets and they appear to be works in process with SWM-IT still giving lots of feedback to SRM in China. No major problems , just inconsistencies.
 
...some of the familiar Husky based offerings look sweet and I'm sure I'll be paying close attention to them since ktm has begun dropping much needed wear items that were common among many of Husky's models...granted I'm probably not alone thinking that SWM may become a source for parts for current Italian Husky owners...yeah,I'm already looking at the rear brake pedal off the 300...ktm has had it on back-order for 3 months now!..want to sell me one? I'll be the first guinea pig !
 
Herb said:
SWM ("Sironi Vergani Vimercate Milano" aka "Speedy Working Motors") made some evil 2-strokes already back in 1976, at the time their bikes were as good as anything made in Europe (and Japan) :

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Thanks to awesome Austrian Rotax motors! I always wanted to ride one of these, but never got the chance. I figured those Rotax motors would be great in a chassis better than a Can Am! :oldman:
 
Sachs 7-speed made in Germany :) ... Later SWM switched to Austrian-made Rotax who were supplying KTM as well (from what I remember). Front fork Ceriani, rear shocks Marzocchi? It seems many of these nice SWM's are still running today.

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