and the battery has to live
somewhere. Other viewers were
coughing up their spaghetti, but if
we laugh at every attempt to bring
something new into the market it may
be at our peril. Otto Preminger said
directing Monroe was like directing
Lassie, it would take fourteen takes to
get it right. The little Otto should take
thirteen takes less!
SCOOTABLE
All the major players made a stand.
Impressive were Kymco and SYM
from Taiwan while BMW with the C
400 and Honda with an expansion
of its range. Vespa’s Elettrica offers
the promise of hybrid scootering
and certainly the looks are a nod to
previous steel-bodied small scoots.
ALMOST FORGOT
Our friends at Rizoma knocked all
of the other accessory houses out of
the ballpark with their dressed-up
bikes showing off the amazing range
of beautiful aftermarket parts. The
hit for me was the BMW R nine T,
although most of the internet
chatter was about the Aprilia
gracing the stand.
Moto Morini and Mondial were
back again and thankfully the later
HPS (The Bear lamented its 125cc
Hipster form last year) has grown
up into a funkier 300 version -
really a 249cc. In classic PR speak‘During the years in inactivity of
FB Mondial the lord Peir Luigi
Boselli, owner of the brand, and
friendship and shared passion for
bikes, gave birth to an ambitious
project’. Hope it was a too painful
a birth, Luigi. He also pronounced
the comeback ‘closed to the
Hipster Generation’
Morini meanwhile was taking
some styling tips from the Ducati
GT750, I thought.EICMA MOTORCYCLE SHOW Special Feature