Nice looking bikes, anyone else think they look a little like Benelli Trek's?
You can see the Cat converter on the road bike on the right hand side down low bulging in the down pipe.
The Cat looks pretty big, suggesting that maybe the bikes meet Euro 4 emissions standards and thus probably have the charcoal canisters that are fitted to US bikes to collect any petrol fumes from the tank.
The headlights and screen all look like they might be easy to remove/replace, which will come in handy if the bikes are going to be used in anger off road.
Nice flat passenger seat too, should be easy to strap a roll bag to.
Hopefully they have stroked the 675 engine (this is what they done to the 955 engine to make it a 1050) to bring the cc up to about 800, straight into BMW territory.
The 675 has bags of torque allready so a stroked version with revised cam timing would make it a real tyre shredder.
My only concern is that the 675 has a very deep sump, which would comprimise ground clearance, so they will either have to redisign the sump or raise the engine pretty high off the ground and this may cause the bike to be top heavy.
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