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1974 – All models adopted a big rectangular fork with a narrower section, aluminium Akront rims with yellow stamp, 35 mm forks and gas shock absorbers (always by Marzocchi) and more performing Magura controls from 1974; anyway as the year went by new improvements were introduced, for example the low expansion silencer which was introduced at the middle of the season on official bikes on the occasion of the Valli Bergamasche.
Some units were tested with Scrab disc brakes on the front wheel always while running at the Valli Bergamasche.
As the year went by, the leather tool bag was replaced by a case equipped with metallic door, built-in inside the tank. 
SWM achieved positive and alternatively not so positive results, but the overall result was good and SWM’s fame was still high.
Once more, Pierluigi Rottigni was the best, he won the 125 cc class of the most important and longed competitions: the Valli Bergamasche (1st and 2nd June), doubling Gritti’s Gilera results and Witthoft’s Zündapp results, and the Six Days in Camerino (9th-14th September).
During the Six Days in Camerino, Rottigni successfully tested a very visible change on the frame, which was enlonged on the steering head area; this innovation was achieved by bending the two-cradled tube onwards, before joining the tube.

Rottigni ended the year ranking second in the Italian Championship and third in the European Championship.
SWM won also the 3rd ranking of the 50 class thanks to Maurizio Radici and of the 100 class thanks to A. Camotti.
During the Valli Bergamasche there were other bright results: Andrea Marinoni ranked 3rd of the 50 class, Ettore De Ruschi ranked 5th, Maurizio Radici ranked 9th and Graziano Pelanconi ranked 10th.
Attilio Petrogalli ranked 8th of the 100 class but ranked 2nd during the Six Days.
The German Klenk achieved the 2nd position in the 50 class during the Six Days too.
SWM series models were updated and improved constantly and very speedily on the basis of the competing experience, so that SWM bikes were highly appreciated and demanded by an increasingly higher number of people, but at the same time the accessories and compounds which got older very fast, became warehouse stock as they were no longer mounted on the top range models.
All this material was recycled and used till it was over by producing minor series which could claim a cheaper price, and traded on foreign markets like France, where they were marketed by BPS from 1975.
When telling SWM’s story, we will always take into consideration the top range models and we will not get into details of the listing of the minor series, distinguished by the initials N, ND or they like, which have nothing to do with the general context of the international competitions.


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