• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

edmoto said:
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:
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Your guess is as good as our guess ! We have to get the "certs" in writing before any of the other 30 + 30 day timelines go into effect. It is an exhausting exercise in the domino effect of the red tape involved with importing motorcycles.
 
I found this article while searching the web for SWM talk on forums and Euro sites. http://www.motorcycle.com/features/swm-motorcycles-the-italian-oem-you-dont-yet-know.html BTW our RS500R DOT/EPA/CARB spec test bike has been shipped as of yesterday by AIR. ETA to CA late next week. If SWM does not get a RS650R USA spec bike finished and shipped before the end of July, it wont happen until September as like most all Italian factories they go on "holiday" for most of August. No further updates on the RS300R or the 440s from SWM at this time. New info on models, changes, pricing, etc. will not be released by SWM until after "holiday" according to their sales manager.
 
Lurking in the background. The wifey wants my 449 and I've been thinking a 501 would be in my future. But at a little more than half the price, a SWM could be in the running.
 
Wat r they worth over there noobee? Bout $9500+ ride away here which is cheapish but I think keeping them at $8-$9k tops ride away would be the go. $7990($8500+) plus Orc for 300 I think
 
God Speed to getting the bikes saleable here in the US. I know you (SWM) have a plan...but I hope you get the 300 dual sport here sooner then later. That is the bike I want!
 
shawbagga said:
Wat r they worth over there noobee? Bout $9500+ ride away here which is cheapish but I think keeping them at $8-$9k tops ride away would be the go. $7990($8500+) plus Orc for 300 I think
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Around $7000 US for the SWM vs $11000 US for the Hoosk.
 
I have owned about 20+ bikes, cross, hard enduro, toruring, enduro, super sport and i also do all maintenance, including full engine rebuild.
I also owned 2008 Aprilia RXV 550 and 2008 Husqvarna TE 510, first generation FI.

First generation XV 550 engines (06,07) had big reliability issues (fueling, starting, mixing water and oil, etc) and although later models had all problems fixed, the reputation was ruined, also beacause of the dealers, and their lack of support and knowledge about the bikes.
On the other hand, stock 08 husqy is almost unridable with 02 sensor connected, lack of balance shaft makes it very vibey, rock hard seat and stock forks felt like they were half siezed.

Other than that, both bikes were very good, but that "italian" character make them more of an enthusiast bikes.

From what i read online and direct answer from SWM and the dealers, 500 has the balancer shaft and the FI and suspension are decent.

I hope that SWM won`t repeat their mistakes and problems and make the bikes ridable and idiot proof out of the box as much as possible, if not, there is little chance of success.
 
Our RS500R USA spec EPA/CARB/DOT test bike has arrived. Now to get her set up and dressed up for the big dance. Testing agency says expect 60 day turn around ! Heck. you'd think they were an Italian outfit going to take a 3 week vacation in August.
 
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