| | | | Paris Motorcycles Show: Mondial du 2 roues. |  Written: 29/09/2007 : 01:17. Read 3405 times (15/day). | | The integrality of this filed article is for Premium Members. | Paris under the rain: the best weather to spend the day watching bikes in a show that we expected a little less « sad ».
Most of the faces we met didn't smile. Not so much joice, not some much passion?
Hopefully the bikes where nice.
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Every two years, the Paris motorcycle Show misses a manufacturer. This year, we really missed the Piaggio Group (Moto Guzzi, Aprilia, Gilera...).
However, Ducati was quite present and their really red show room. The awesome Desmoseidici almost did not manage to hide a splendid 1098 and a sharp Hypermotard.
MV Agusta unveiled the BESTIALE, an pure, modern italian street fighter.
We allready saw all the Triumph bikes. Whatever, the 3 cylinders english motorcycles are quite sympathetic, and the most beautiful is still (without any doubts) the 675.
KTM, the Autrichian manufacturer, was distinguished by planning its press conference late in the afternoon, once everyone started to walk away... What's new? Some other and other variations of the same orange bikes...
Their german neigbhours, BMW, unveilled the new HP3 SuperSport. This new bike is for sure the very first BMW that will be able to outperform both in performances and design the other european or japanese sport bikes.
The last european manufacturer we visited was Voxan. The french company still habe some kind of financial problems, but they proudly unveilled their new GT motorcycle: the GTV 1200... We let to you assess its aesthetic qualities which do not seem to achieve the unanimity (it is the least we can say)…
Good-byes old continent, hello USA. The Harley Davidson/Buell sho room was really full of good vibes: +16% sales... this number, especially for a manufacturer who do not sell scooters, made the HD staff happy. If you're a lover vigorous twins with real personality, be happy: HD is Alive.
When talking about Buell, it is rather a matter of killer twins. The innovative 1125 starts a new surprising chapter in the US twins book.
Let's end this fast review with the four Japanese Samurais
Much Honda was awaited. Even if we can't say that the mood seemed extatic, the two new bikes did not disappoint us. On the contrary, the CBR 1000 2008, with its bio design, breaks in a pleasant way the actuall sharp hypersport bikes design: a true good surprise, which will be yet a better surprise if dynamic qualities are ok.
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