• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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!

AJP PR7 and SWM SuperDual

JonDirt

JonDirt

Husqvarna
AA Class
Two new bikes have been announced this year at EIMCA, the AJP PR7 and the SWM SuperDual, both based around the 630 engine.

AJP PR7

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AJP PR7. Weight Approx 336 lbs / 152kg dry. 4.5 gallon tank. 18/21" tires. Available in Europe around September.

http://motoajp.com/ajp-enduros/pr-7/
http://www.advpulse.com/adv-bikes/production-version-of-new-ajp-pr7-600cc-dual-sport-unveiled/

SWM SuperDual


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SWM SuperDual. 350 lbs / 160kg dry. 5 gallon tank. 17/19" tires. Available in Europe in May for around 7000 euros.

http://www.swm-motorcycles.it/
 
I would take one in Italy as well and do a tour before shipping it home, if it was possible. Maybe a stop at the Isle of Man for the TT.
 
Is the super dual a variation on their 650R? (engine looks like the TE 630's) on something based on the old 650 Husky?
 
Kam1 said:
Pr7 looks good, very good IMHO- KLR eater.
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With a price rumored around 9000eu, I think the PR7 will compete more directly with the 701 and CCM. The SuperDual will be closer to KLR territory, it even has the metal tank :)

mjskier said:
Is the super dual a variation on their 650R? (engine looks like the TE 630's) on something based on the old 650 Husky?
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Both the PR7 and the SuperDual use the old Husqvarna 630 engine, with some tweaks, and not the Terra 650 BMW engine.
 
I like both. What I really like is the idea of fitting that windscreen from the Superdual to my TE630 :-) Being from Canada, I'm not holding my breath that either will be available here any time soon.
 
Bushwa, I agree - there may be some interesting crossovers from these bikes onto the 610/630's. That plus parts access are a really cool aspect of the new lease of life on the 630 from SWM. Actually, when a rider on YouTube got off the SWM 650 and said its a surprisingly light and powerful bike and a fantastic ride, I grinned. Yep. Looking at these bikes, I'm chuffed with what the old Husqvarna managed to squeeze into my 610. It is still the lightest and most dirt oriented of the bunch.

I think SWM is working hard to get USA Homologation next year - so perhaps it won't be so long in Canada (can you ride US reg bikes there?)
 
Another mid-sized ADV bike that was shown at EIMCA, also a Chinese/Italian collaboration. This is a Benelli bike coming next year that should be priced to move:

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TRK 502, 210kg, 5.3 gallon tank, 17/19" tires, and a new six speed 500cc twin engine.
 
JonDirt said:
Another mid-sized ADV bike that was shown at EIMCA, also a Chinese/Italian collaboration. This is a Benelli bike coming next year that should be priced to move:

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TRK 502, 210kg, 5.3 gallon tank, 17/19" tires, and a new six speed 500cc twin engine.
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I like it and it looks very BMWish. What motor is that? The BMW based one maybe? 690/701 looking frame.
 
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