• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Original Dirt said:
SWM can basically sell the same Euro4 certified bikes worldwide, but the USA requires additional detail b.s. that makes the USA destined bikes completely different in many minor ways. To purchase and label specific USA only parts and then assemble the USA destined bikes is taking longer than SWM anticipated. In addition to that they can practically sell all that the can produce currently everywhere ex-USA. it seems that the sense of urgency that we in the USA have is maybe mired in the Italian way of doing business. SMH ! So once again we wait. Even though everywhere else in the motorcycle market manufacturers try to release new machines ASAP July 1 to kick off the new model year the small Italian factories generally don't seem to have any concern about it until sometime after September 1st when they have re-opened from their 2 week Summer holiday shut down. It is our USA expectations that don't match the Euro culture expectations that we're just going to become accustomed to in managing our own expectations.
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So what are the differences between the US/non-US? DOT lens labeling? DOT stamp on brake pads? DOT fluid label? EPA label?
 
they "were" here in SoCal I rode the 300 and 500........but they are for all intents and purposes destroyed per post testing regulations..........
 
I still don't understand why a modern, fuel-injected, emission-controlled car can run well off the showroom floor... but a motorcycle can't.
 
Any idea if the Athena Maya programming kits will be functional with the SWM ECU's? or will they be locked down tight??
 
The rs and sm 500's are officially coming to the US. The distributor said they may have 2018 graphics but will be 2019 models.
 
The Maya software does connect to the bike. Can't say for sure what the actual production bikes will allow us to do. We'll find out though.
 
Maya is the software the dealers use over here to check diagnostics, update maps from the factory etc. I'm interested to see if you can upload correction maps from dyno tuners like on the aftermarket Athena ECU's ;)
 
02.21.18
SWM US has all of the signed documents for EPA/CARB/DOT approval for the RS500R and SM500R bikes. Submission for the DOT/EPA certificates usually takes 60 days to be issued, CARB certificates take 75 days on average. They will be produced with MY2019 vins for the USA market (2018 graphics). So, 75 days net minimum for all of the certificates to be in our hands brings us to early May 2018 for shipping date, then 30+ days for ocean transport, customs, and delivery to our CA HQ makes mid-June ETA to begin shipping to dealers. Note, the first container on a "new" import from a vendor that US customs has no record dealing with can take 2 weeks to clear at the port. Often on the first container customs wants to pretty much empty the box and verify the contents with the manifest invoice.
SWM says that they have on hand all of the US market specific pieces and parts and that some preassembly and sub assembly will begin soon with completion well before the expected certificates in our hands, so that they can ship ASAP. The SM650SD is now in the EPA/DOT contract testing agency for the reliability test as pretty much all of the other DOT requirements are covered by the RS500 testing.
 
On Monday March 5th SWM Motorcycles USA received an email indicating that SWM-IT was preparing production for 100 combined units of 2019 RS500R and SM500R motorcycles to be shipped to the USA before the end of 2018. That would be roughly 2 hi-cube containers of bikes in production. Shipping will commence when the US DOT issues their documents accepting those bikes as DOT/EPA/ CARB compliant. ETA is still roughly June 2018. As previously indicated these bikes will have 2019 vins, but have 2018 graphics. Since these bikes vary from the EU-world production bikes in a few small but significant ways, SWM will produce future USA approved SWMs in minimum lots of 100 each. Depending on sales demand we could get 200-300 of the units yet this year.
 
The 2019 SWM RS/SM500s are on their way to the USA. They left the SWM factory on Monday 8.6.18. ETA to the USA is roughly 4 weeks. Any dealers that are interested please contact Motoman Distributing 760-949-0941 or by email info@motomandist.com. Min order 3 bikes. Must have state dealer licensing capability as they are fully DOT/EPA/CARB certified.
 
Wow it's finally happening for you guys. 2.5 years later what a mission! Hope they sell to justify all the headaches
 
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