• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Ok, the 300 4T to come this year is based on the old and reliable platform. So no X-Lite problems like starting to be exspected. Let's see how chubby these bikes are going to be. Hope they didn't hire back the guys who did the greasing of the linkage and the fixing of the nuts of the stator, haha
 
I did not know .. they are resurrecting the 650 as well.

http://www.swm-motorcycles.it/modelli/supermoto/sm-650-r/


As for the SWM prototype X-lite style engines (which don't appear to be used on the "new" models you can notice that they redesigned the starter with a large diameter drive gear rather that worm gear design that never had the purchase/leverage to crank properly

http://www.swm-motorcycles.it/

on their facebook page they seem to be promoting their official racing debut at the Valle Bergamasche enduro which is a big event in the heart of the Italian enduro world near Bergamo
 
As a Italian Husky enthusiast, I like the idea of SWM. As a dealer, just wondering if there is room for another brand. It's an up hill battle to sell an excellent bike like Beta in a KTM world, and I am doing it, but there is a lot of prejudice to overcome. Even harder to get someone to bite on an AJP, even though they are one of the best trail/technical race bikes I have ever ridden. I know more choices are good, but it costs money for a dealer to take on another brand and hope they sell.
 
Let's hope they find a way into the US and see what the prices will end up being. The Beta is a great bike and if I had the money burning a hole in my pocket for a race bike that would be it. For a new bike for my honey the AJP is looking real good and I would love to see a SWM in the flesh. Heck I'd like to see an AJP in real life too.
 
water racer said:
As a Italian Husky enthusiast, I like the idea of SWM. As a dealer, just wondering if there is room for another brand. It's an up hill battle to sell an excellent bike like Beta in a KTM world, and I am doing it, but there is a lot of prejudice to overcome. Even harder to get someone to bite on an AJP, even though they are one of the best trail/technical race bikes I have ever ridden. I know more choices are good, but it costs money for a dealer to take on another brand and hope they sell.
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I think there is. SWM has more history than AJP.
SWM has better facilities (brand new Husqvarna BMW-build factory) than AJP or Beta.
Also the first line-up of bikes will have very very good prices.
Silver Vase circa 5200, Gran Milano circa 5600, SM/RS 650 circa 6500 (Italian prices).
 
Erik Italhusky said:
I think there is. SWM has more history than AJP.
SWM has better facilities (brand new Husqvarna BMW-build factory) than AJP or Beta.
Also the first line-up of bikes will have very very good prices.
Silver Vase circa 5200, Gran Milano circa 5600, SM/RS 650 circa 6500 (Italian prices).
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Thats exactly what i think- they start straight away with well known bikes, good quality and low prices.
 
LandofMotards said:
Simple...they need an importer that can afford bikes, racing, and advertising.
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Bikes? yes. Advertising? Yes, but this can be done with press and social media. Martketing is getting more afforable these days.
Racing? No. Not with the current line-up. The focus is not on competition drivers, but on casual riders or "weekend warriors". Might be in the future though (2016-2018) when more competitive bikes are released.
 
Erik Italhusky said:
Bikes? yes. Advertising? Yes, but this can be done with press and social media. Martketing is getting more afforable these days.
Racing? No. Not with the current line-up. The focus is not on competition drivers, but on casual riders or "weekend warriors". Might be in the future though (2016-2018) when more competitive bikes are released.
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Then they won't sell here without being much cheaper then everything else on the market.
 
LandofMotards said:
Simple...they need an importer that can afford bikes, racing, and advertising.
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here in germany they got ZUPIN (they have been a husky importer for decades and loads of knowledge about these bikes) as their importer- and i m sure they said they will have a race team using swm bikes soon... so lets see what happens.
 
Miezie666 said:
here in germany they got ZUPIN (they have been a husky importer for decades and loads of knowledge about these bikes) as their importer- and i m sure they said they will have a race team using swm bikes soon... so lets see what happens.
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In the Netherlands we have MotoMondo. Same position as Zupin. Did husky for years!
 
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