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I Like My EICMAThe take-away from my three-day getaway at the world’s biggest bike show.
Photography by Jeff Allen After only a couple days in Milano at the world’s biggest motorcycle show, in the world’s hippest fashion capitol, I have to say I have never felt so short, old, unkempt and uncool in my entire life. I don’t know what they feed the Italian women to make them grow so [...]
Future Hondas: Twin-cylinder Integra, NC700S and NC700X, plus V-Four CrosstourerParallel-Twin powers three new Honda motorcycles.
Honda is exploring new and more efficient ways to deal with urban traffic. At EICMA, it showed the Integra, NC700S, NC700X and a production version of the Crosstourer concept unveiled last year at Intermot. Three of the four machines are powered by a 670cc parallel-Twin; the Crosstourer uses the 1237cc V-Four from the VFR1200F. Honda [...]
2012 Honda VFR1200F, CB1000R, CBR250R and Two ScootersNew-blue, traction-controlled VFR1200F headlines updated Hondas.
Honda continues to squeeze the new-model toothpaste tube, formally introducing five more members of its 2012 lineup for the U.S. We already know about the Gold Wing and updates to the CBRs, but here’s the deal on a quintet of models we had not yet heard about. New matte-gray paint highlights the 2012 CB1000R naked [...]
Vespa QuarantaseiA concept scooter that looks back to see its future.
Quarantasei means 46 in Italian, and if the name of this sleek new scooter were written numerically, someone might be led to believe that Piaggio was trying to snatch legendary MotoGP racer Valentino Rossi away from Ducati. Not so! Here, “Quarantasei” refers to the birth year of the greatest scooter of all time: the Vespa. [...]
BMW C 600 Sport and C 650 GTBMW’s first maxi-scooters.
Photography by Jeff Allen At BMW’s stylish EICMA display, hopes were dashed with the non-introduction of a liquid-cooled big GS we thought might appear. Instead, there’s a cosmetic upgrade to the existing R1200GS—the Rallye. But there was a first for BMW: a pair of “maxi-scooters”—the C 600 Sport and C 650 GT. The C 600 [...]
