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B display of some very radical machines (Albeit four-stokes) who along with Victory motorcycles appeared to be grabbing most of the publics attention on the road bike scene. Despite this being the first attempt at an off road section, dirt bike aficionados were well catered for and more interestingly just about every off road stand had a two stroke lurking somewhere on the carpet! Apart from Suzuki……… who shouted the two stroke message loud and proud displaying an immaculate R.M. 400 on the roof of their stand. K.T.M. Kawasaki and Yamaha all held their own with well presented products and plenty of literature available for the public.K.T.M.’s new 150 was getting plenty of attention as were the smaller end of the Yamaha range although it was interesting to see that on first impressions it appears that Yamaha and Suzuki may well be sharing the design of the rear mudguard on some of the 2010 models. restyled Yamaha 450f had clearly dissipated rather rapidly with very little interest being shown in the flagship model and it was somewhat of a surprise to see that although several stands displayed various Honda’s, Honda U.K. were conspicuous by their absence from the high profile event. Sticking with the H’s Husky stepped up to the plate and did the name proud taking a very bright and large piece of red carpet to show off next years bikes including the cute and purposeful C.R. 50 or should that read 50 C.R…… Taking the opportunity to be associated with a wider selection of the industry and its enthusiasts, K.R.M. Motorhomes took the opportunity to release their all new sports motorhome for 2010 with the stunning new Titanium model. Based on a Mercedes sprinter chassis the all new model retains all the class and high quality finish that you would expect from K.R.M. with some innovative new features.

By motoman465 on December 4th, 2009 at 9:35 am

I agree, that really stinks! We have to figure out a way to pressure sanctioning bodies into letting two strokes compete with equal displacement 4 strokes. Of course, the sanctioning bodies don’t want that because the big 4 don’t want that. WHEN that does happen we know what will happen!

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