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It sort of shows the silhouette of the production version.

And I'll gladly say it does look quite similar to the concept that they showed off at EICMA last year.

You can still see there's a single-sided swing arm.

It looks like it'll get the same aggressive front end.

And also it said that they're working towards EPA and carb approval in North America.

So probably be on the US market at some point as well.

One of the weirdest bikes on show at EICMA last year, though, was actually Bender's P51 Concept.

It used a 250cc boxer twin, so unusual enough already.

And then in the last four, maybe four to five, one of the big changes is the big influx of Chinese bikes.

When I was at EICMA seven years ago in Milan, and you're looking at all the new models, there was one or two Chinese manufacturers.

EICMA last year, I was like, And they're coming out with some amazing stuff like V4 400s.

You're like, what the – who thought that was a good idea? And inline six, you know, and 250s and 400s and cruisers and adventure bikes.

And it's kind of like open this Pandora box.

Uh, but realistically, if you wanna get a hold of one, you'll have to get your skates on.

Uh, CF Moto are also working on, uh, their own super bike at the moment, the V4 SR-RR, which was, uh, revealed at EICMA last year and teased and drip-fed in terms of technical information ever since.

But this latest video actually shows them working with Öhlins to develop the suspension and also the steering damper.

Now, I think the first version that we saw actually had a semi-active suspension on it, but this one looks to be just regular old mechanical Öhlins, which is actually, to be fair, more typical of a, a track bike where you don't want so much variability.

It also is shown in the video that it gets Brembo's top spec high-pure calipers on the braking as well.

And so it really should be able to take it to the top-end sports bikes that receive, you know, similar sort of hardware, things like the Ducati Panigale V4.

More on this one I'd expect at EICMA this year.

If you want something that- I guess looks pretty cool though, but maybe, uh, isn't quite so sharp in terms of the performance, then you might wanna consider Aston Martin's latest contribution to the motorcycle market, which was announced this week, their second-ever bike, the AMB 002, and it's actually their first-ever road legal bike.

We've seen photos of the Royal Enfield, uh, Himalayan 650 now for literally years or, or seen spy shots, rumors.

Um, I believe we'll see that at EICMA.

So that will be an adventure bike powered by the same air-cooled twin cylinder that's in the, um, Interceptor 650, those, uh, 650 twins from Royal Enfield.

It's a char-- I rode one in India.

We don't know, but that's the rumour.

So that will be coming out at EICMA in November.

November.

So that's quite exciting.

And moving on to MVA Goose.

We don't know if this is going to come out this year, but we know that last year at EICMA, they showed a very unique new engine configuration.

You know, Honda...

We talked about our V3R, but MV Agusta has a five-cylinder.

Okay.

it seems like the debuts most likely going to occur at EICMA.

Um, it's, it's interesting because it has elements that are like the four 50 and then elements that I feel are closer to the, um, the older four 10, the, uh, single headlight i don't hate i think i'll like the look of it more once i see it with some like decent graphics packages on it but parts of what they have going on up by the headlight seem a little more modern than i would expect which isn't a horrible thing But it'll be interesting to see how much, if at all, this changes from now to final production version.

Because it's looking pretty finished.