• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 is back

I guess that's me.. "Mr. Blind Brand Loyalty"! I bought in and at retail too! Funny thing, I did it before with Cagiva Huskys and they just rented the Husky Logo too. I ride Swedish, Italian and now Austrian Huskys. Have fun and enjoy all the choices!:oldman:
I understand totally! If I had started on Swedish Husky's and continued with Italian Husky's, then I would stick with them also. Norm, you have earned the right to be loyal Husqvarna no matter what, and you will have great bikes!
 
I understand totally! If I had started on Swedish Husky's and continued with Italian Husky's, then I would stick with them also. Norm, you have earned the right to be loyal Husqvarna no matter what, and you will have great bikes!
I should have added, that I bought in... "Lock, stock and barrel". Husky gun history pun intended!
 
I just fond this. Interesting read.

http://www.chinamotorrider.com/shineray-motorcycle-co-resurrect-swm/

"What’s the SWM Centro-style planning direction of the product lines?
The R&D plan follows former developments from the Husqvarna team, they currently consist of the Enduro and Retro Series, but in the future we will be releasing new series’ like Racing, Street and Adventure bikes."

"We will launch the new products one at a time from July 2015 to February 2016 starting with the 300 cc, then 450 cc, 510 cc, 650 cc. in May 2016 we will launch a new 125 cc, in 2018 the 900 cc will be finished In August 2016 we will release a performance 250cc."
 
They are saying all the right things..... Parts from China compared to parts from India is the only question/debate. KTM signaled all the 390 new bikes will be from India, as well... Polaris signed a deal recently with Eicher who owns Royal Enfield in India so appears these two countries offer the right bang for the buck in the industry.
 
in May 2016 we will launch a new 125 cc
be interesting to see the price & quality! im slightly aroused!!!;) theyll need a 250/300 2T to go with the 125 though IMHO or theyre gonna miss easy sales
 
Found this in a german enduro Magazine yesterday...

Basicly what they said is Zupin Motor Sport will have a SWM Race Team in 2015 and they will develop new bikes during the season.
First new bike will be a 250 and 340 which will be ready for first tests in august/september this year, a 250 4stroke will be ready for 2016.
So they are (re) starting with a former well known (in germany and austria) Husqvarna team.
 

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Will be real interesting to see where this goes. Those were good bikes and if they polish a few issues out with them they might do really well. Interesting.
 
Zupin has been the biggest Husky dealer for decades... Josef Zupin was a Husky Factory Rider from 1972 - 1978 .
Their team should know best what to do developing new bikes.
With the founds from shineray i m really looking forward seeing SWM growing through the years
 
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