• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

So you're kind of suspicious that we are just sitting around doing nothing because we have not posted in 7 days...
Well, that is almost accurate. Unless you consider that Pete and cronies have been riding the RS300R and RS500R bikes to see if there are problems...So, far nothing other than a leaky oil line fitting at a banjo joint, recurring air in the RS500R hydraulic clutch line, and the tall o.e.m. gearing. We are also doing planning for the website and initial marketing. We are still waiting on SWM to finish the 2 US spec bikes to be sent in for DOT/EPA/CARB certifications. They did receive the final "US accessories" they needed earlier this week. Now we wait for the next production run to get the VIN#s so we can give the US DOT and Customs a 3 week notice prior to them coming into the country. BTW, "they" don't make this easy or inexpensive to get bikes approved.
 
So, there was a 10hr MX endurance event yesterday at Glen Helen MX and we don't have any MX bikes...but we do have bikes ! Take off all lights, add front number plate, stiffen up the suspension, mount the new Hi Point rear tires, and get 3 friends to join the team with Pete Vetrano and race the RS300R and RS500R. The team finished 16th overall ! The 300 made it all the way. The 500 had two "dirt samples" on the first, the fuel injector was dislodged in a "get off' and no one detected it. It ran ok after re-seating and securing the injector. However, we pulled the 500 out of the race upon a second "dirt sample" when the hydraulic clutch perch broke and we had no spare ......ugh!.

All in alll, a pretty good day racing "enduro trail bikes" on a MX track in a MX event. ! Check out the photo of the full MX style scrub !

The event report was changed(6.23.16) in this post after reviewing my notes and confirming the editing with Pete Vetrano.

Well, that's crazy...the photos are not rotated on my computer, but showed up here as rotated. In a similar post on our FB page has the photos correctly positioned.
 

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HI -POINT TIRES****************************************!! LIKE RED DOTTED HI-POINT TIRES HI-POINT RED DOT TIRES****************************************! WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN????
 
Real Husky bloodlines... Compelling price points and proven machines. Doing the right thing targeting the hole KTM left. A win for US.
 
We have received and submitted to the DOT/EPA/CARB certification agency 2017 Vin numbers for one each RS500R and RS650R USA spec bikes. We now may have to wait for up to 3 weeks before we get the customs certificate to have those 2 bikes air shipped in for testing. ...red tape...red tape...red tape etc. LOL.... The SWM factory does not yet have the RS300R USA spec bikes ready for testing yet, nor any of the 440s. ETA on them being ready to submit is unknown.

In lieu of an unknown period of time for the "cert" process and the typical August Italian holiday shut down by practically every factory, plus 30 day production times and 30 day transit time, we're probably looking at late fall 2017 before we have bikes to sell.
 
Original Dirt said:
We have received and submitted to the DOT/EPA/CARB certification agency 2017 Vin numbers for one each RS500R and RS650R USA spec bikes. We now may have to wait for up to 3 weeks before we get the customs certificate to have those 2 bikes air shipped in for testing. ...red tape...red tape...red tape etc. LOL.... The SWM factory does not yet have the RS300R USA spec bikes ready for testing yet, nor any of the 440s. ETA on them being ready to submit is unknown.

In lieu of an unknown period of time for the "cert" process and the typical August Italian holiday shut down by practically every factory, plus 30 day production times and 30 day transit time, we're probably looking at late fall 2017 before we have bikes to sell.
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From your post, I parsed the following:
Wait 3 weeks... 2 bikes air shipped... August holiday... 30 days production... 30 day transit... Does that mean late fall of 2016? :applause: Or like you typed: 2017? :cry:
 
I am all worked up about the Superdual****************************************
Can't wait for more information.
Will it be the ADVENTURE bike to replace my heavy 800GS?

Fingers Crossed
 
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