Japanese manufacturers continue to spy on, to monitor, to gauge and leave carefully to "other" the care of wiping the possible launch of an own motorcycle concept platres a boost the market.
The most visible manifestations of this timidity are poor attempts to add a bubble on a naked to make a machine more capable of travel, unless it was to remove a head fork has a gt for the "morph" into naked.
The reasons for such passiveness are they due has a sudden lack of creativity? No, it is sufficient to be convinced to see the increasing number of concept-bikes produced by different offices of national studies, Europeans and Americans each of the Japanese giant four. Alas, to very rare (MT01 yet!) except (Note_de_Did:_et_encore,_elle_se_sera_faite_attendre...)) These machines do not see the day and simply remain superb drawings, scale models, see for the more lucky ones built in the single copy intended to join any particular show and to make us salivate and hope fievreusement their marketing, and then spend forever as if we had the rèvées.
Would a problem of finance be the cause of ambient inaction? Not for builders in all cases, the evidence of "good health" monetary manufacturers appears in the allocated every two years enormous amounts of vicinity to the redesign of their respective hypersports models. When we know that the most important kick of a model is the engine (80% of the price approximately), and that there is every year the sale "qualified missiles" that are CBR, GSXR steadily declining, ZX10R and R1 other, should not be surprised to see flower of roadstersthe GT - see the trails meme - equipped version "power" of the Cree last engine of the mark, only way to recoup R & D! Standardisation has the right, but it helps especially remain at the cutting edge and bounce commercially on the success of their technological Windows: a GP with the R6 engine is much more rewarding for the rider than the same machine equipped with the engine of the Thundercat!
Yes but voila, to the set of the "new-model-which-is-that-that-d-before-it-is-all-zero", we become the victims of our own desire (delirium) of novelty and the prices are high and our dreams of sizes.
Result, the builders return us the image of bikes standardized and declined in versions with or without fairing, with handlebar bracelets or flat hangers, with or without fork heads, that leave us on our hunger and we give the impression that the history of the motorcycle production, is as that of men who think: an eternal restart...
Another consequence of the race has arms that have engaged the protagonists of the motorcycle world, using same machines of today is less and less to the side "easy and convenient" of two wheels. ((I am etonne every day the increasing number of people who, at the time to renew the purchase of their motorcycle, eventually returning to the handlebars of a scooter arguing that "for the utility that I have, is largely sufficient in the city, on the road it can't roll fast and that I can put two helmets under the saddle";)).
This phenomenon completely joined the situation known in the car of today: twingo, smart and other microcars are the Queens of cities, the budget for their purchase and maintenance with nothing comparable to that of a laguna (a 900 hornet for comparison).
We understand it, is not so far time or people purchased a two wheels held pending means was the purchase of the woiture, while now the 125 is the second car of the family.
In this context, the manufacturers fit model artistic blur surf has to bring back the "lost rider" and the solution seems them not obvious, nor me also.
But you do me empecherer step to think that if Honda us today was a Pacific Coast, he has to sell more there are (already) 15 years....!
You said novelty?
FASTFREDDY
(Automated translation with microsoft BING)
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(not translated yet) Edito Avril 2011: « lairduncon »
