• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 V-twins are coming?

C

cyclopathic

Husqvarna
A Class
SWM news:
https://www.topspeed.com/motorcycles/motorcycle-news/swm-motorcycles-announces-its-future-plans-ar179082.html
Currently, the brand makes use of Husqvarna and Shineray single-cylinder engines on their motorcycles. Soon, both Shineray and SWM will be running on 350cc to 1200cc V-Twin machines that will be DOHC and water-cooled.

They will also probably be replacing the single cylinder models with the base 350cc V-Twin for the newbie customers, a middleweight 550cc design aimed at ‘advanced riders’ and ‘city riding,’ and an 850cc cruiser and adventure class models. The 1200cc twin will be on an ‘ultimate’ superbike/naked machine that will be the new flagship of the brand.
swm-motorcycles-anno-5.jpg


https://rideapart.com/articles/swm-launch-four-new-v-twins-global-markets
The report also noted that SWM has reached an agreement with Kinetic MotoRoyale, which brought the MV Agusta and the Norton brands to India, and will launch the SWM Superdual adventure motorcycle. The presumption is that this engine will be based on the 600cc Husqvarna design, although there has been speculation on the possibility of the smaller displacement V-twins being used in adventure models.
So the possibility of 850 v-twin big brother for SD, hmm
 
Almost definitely an Italian designed engine, probably a home grown one by Ampelio Macchi who did the current SWM engine designs and prior to that did some for Aprillia and Cagiva. Still no word direct from SWM.

cyclopathic said:
SWM news:
https://www.topspeed.com/motorcycles/motorcycle-news/swm-motorcycles-announces-its-future-plans-ar179082.html
Currently, the brand makes use of Husqvarna and Shineray single-cylinder engines on their motorcycles. Soon, both Shineray and SWM will be running on 350cc to 1200cc V-Twin machines that will be DOHC and water-cooled.

They will also probably be replacing the single cylinder models with the base 350cc V-Twin for the newbie customers, a middleweight 550cc design aimed at ‘advanced riders’ and ‘city riding,’ and an 850cc cruiser and adventure class models. The 1200cc twin will be on an ‘ultimate’ superbike/naked machine that will be the new flagship of the brand.
swm-motorcycles-anno-5.jpg


https://rideapart.com/articles/swm-launch-four-new-v-twins-global-markets
The report also noted that SWM has reached an agreement with Kinetic MotoRoyale, which brought the MV Agusta and the Norton brands to India, and will launch the SWM Superdual adventure motorcycle. The presumption is that this engine will be based on the 600cc Husqvarna design, although there has been speculation on the possibility of the smaller displacement V-twins being used in adventure models.
So the possibility of 850 v-twin big brother for SD, hmm
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Hi Muzz. I think that would be a wonderful idea. The FE570 was a great bike and should have stayed in production. It would make a great DS bike with bigger tank, cush hub etc.
 
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