EICMA International Motorcycle Show: the essentials and improbables 2022

The Milan Salon, Italy.Edition 2021 of the new motorcycles 2022...

The new motorcycles you have already seen and the others

EICMA is the motorcyclist lounge.Essential, it is traditionally the meeting place for the biggest brands but also of plethora of exhibitors more or less known.This is the place where you put your new flagships, your new ideas, all the novelties of the coming year.It is the case that sublimates but also informed about trends, the future of the 2022 market.

Obviously, all of this was before.Before the war in Manu.Before the multiple crest wave, a new one every 6 months which, like the razors, cut and overflow better and better, until excess, any desire for dynamics and recovery.Fear is a necessarily guilty defect.

2021 still sounds the return of the Italian giant.But lessened, a little removed.And the absence of certain big names is responsible for emptying its meaning.(BMW, KTM, Husqvarna, Harley-Davidson, Indian, Peugeot and even ... Ducati! Paradoxically, Eicma would he prefigure his own end in the medium term? Or is this another outcome for the Transalpine Carrefour of novelties?…

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With two less halls, the visitor and, what is more, the professional, breathes more in his discovery marathon.However, there is something to do, with beautiful novelties on this edition.

I am simply starting with the first space I push the door and the first manufacturer to face me.That's good, it's an Italian legend, a phoenix still in progress to get a life: Moto Morini.I dreamed of a granpasso but it is now the X-Cape 649 trail that clarifies the health of the brand.Well drawn and unsurprising with a parallel twin.A motorization that equips an increasing number of vehicles in a large segment.Simple and inexpensive to produce… It is of course declined in stylish roadster (Milano) and two new Seiemmezzo Str and SCR.The whole is very charming.

Not far from there, the Piaggio group ensures the show.Moto Guzzi in mind with its new V100 Mandello!A slightly hybrid machine between light road and traveler roadster.Can't wait to see in dynamics if the eagle is a homebody or more reckless.Like the V85, declined in many versions on 2 floors, including a guardia of nipple with specific paint, quite classy.Opposite, APRILIA gloats her tuono and RSV4 alongside GP proto.La Tuareg 660 is in the spotlight, leading the Noale firm towards more sandy tracks than usual.A little dolce vita with the eternal vespa, largely modernized and a very attractive by Christian Dior model.And SO Vintage!

We continue the Transalpin Tour with another monument: MV Agusta.Undoubtedly the most elegant manufacturers, the firm produces high seaming cars.Besides, it is the Superveloce which wins the coveted title of motorcycle in the show ...!In its AGO version, the beautiful shade its divine dress of history and legendary.Desirable!Not far away, the Top Model family offers its brutal news 1000 RS and Nurburgring.A little less subtle, they are sculpted by competition, performance.At three or four cylinders, these machines are two -wheeled goddesses.The dream factory also creates it unpublished by motorizing the Lucky Explorer Project 5.5 and 9.5.Again the brand is silent in Dakar format.Even the stand creates innovation by mimicking dunes and exposing anthology models.A must see.

Benelli..That said to you?Let's go.Ok, we know that it feels a little soy, for more than a decade.But the brand exists at this price and is renewed rather well.Two big news: Leoncino 125 and TRK 800.The first takes up the broken look of the 800 models whose very original ovoid optics.Put ourselves in the saddle for the first time with such a speed ... We would have liked, at the time!But here it is especially the trk 800 that is buzzing.Engine ?Well a parallel twin of course ... Good point, its aesthetics are quite faithful to the principle of the brand, even evoking in its profiles a little of the ex-Trek and the mythical roadster TNT.And everything else is badly dislodged with a neat, complex drawing and pretty details.Even this light/orange beige color ensures the character of the model.Note the optics, we will find it often ... elsewhere.

We pass the stand next door and ... it's China.Temporal gate point but a globalization directed with the baguette.You will understand, Asia invites itself serious both through reputed and redeemed brands and new brands.This is the case with Qjmotor.Like me, you know its range on your fingertips.Nope ?Ah yeah ... Well, well, we get started.In roadster, we will note the QJ350-13 Street Sport and QJ600GS-3A Naked Street Bike.This last mime a little z1000.Because the aesthetic inspiration of emblematic models remain a marked constant for Chinese production.This midsize is available in sports 3b Racing Replica.A whole program ... but there is also a superb neo-retro blooming good fifties: the QJ500-8A, classic retro.Kind of bsa-enfield led by an air/oil mono-cylinder, 25 hp at 5,500, radiated wheels, long Gun pot, tank raised.Style !A little less classic, the QJ300-12R looks like a Harley Sportster.Another notch of modernity and we aim for a diavel with the QJ500-11A Street Cruiser.No production valid without trail.Here is the QJ500GS-5F Adventure, twin parallel and duck beak.The whole is very convincing and doubles an QJ750-7 Adventure, more aggressive, between Kawa Versys and BMW XR1000.His lighthouse is very nice;Normal, this is the Benelli trk.

And it also evokes that of the CF-MOTO 800 Mt trail… We therefore embrace on this brand and this very attractive model on the KTM 790 engine base.A traveler who had made me a strong impression and whose test is slow to me.We also presented you the fairly successful Cl-X Heritage some time ago.The manufacturer declines its roadster in an ultra -equipped Cafe Racer: handlebar bracelet, two Brembo Stylema stirrups and 300 mm discs, profiled rear shell ... it will heat!And even more with the sublisim Sr Vision Concept.I want one !Finally, when she goes out one day.This hyper-sport proto is one of the most beautiful in the EICMA with its all-stretch drawing.Aaken ...

You see it, China energizes the market and rings at the door of "big".And U.S. too.Department of better names, but still in Asia, starting with Honda.The biggest stand in the show where we will remember well on the new NT 1100 (tried) but also the ADV 350.Available from 650, this new Scoot-Moto hybrid has an elegance more suited to urban travel.

We slide at Yamaha to study the Ténéré 700 raid prototype.Ultra Off-Road version, the novelty is ready for all-terrain competition.Between two tributes to Mister Rossi, we mate the MT-10 and SP 2022 and the new TMAX.

Then we go to the elegant Kawasaki stand.Optimized versions of the Ninja H2 SX, Z900 and Versys 650 rub shoulders with the Z650 RS (already tried).I appreciate the exhibited Superbike machines, including that of Jonathan Rea, a symbol of the fight against adversity ...

A side step to admire the Suzuki hostesses and their motorcycles of course.Yes Yes.Besides, the Katana 2022 dress also has new very successful colors.Of course, the GSX-S1000GT is one of the stars of the Hamamatsu brand and a good trial memory in aquatic mode.

Back to Europe in our English Brexitors.Hinkley's brand is on the rise and highlights its new maxi trail.This Tiger 1200 is indeed a revolution, as you have now discovered in its official versions.To come also on our roads, the Tiger 660.But there is also this Speed Triple RR, Sports version, Technological Cafe Racer of the Roadster Star (that is actually anglicism ...).Fucking Awesome Style, Man!And a pleasure of crazy to run on the Asscari layout.A muscular and bewitching diva.The British also decline the Bonneville in special version.

Since we are in the retro, let's go to Royal Enfield, genre specialist.But with a now modern design.Remarkable, the Indians Interceptor and Continental GT have a or even birthparts not far away on the same bases.If the Himalayan 650 version is more than in pipes, the Custom SG650 Concept should not be long in pushing its first vroap.Superbly finished, with numerous aluminum parts cut in the mass, the proto prefigures a bright future at the Chennai firm.

As we can see, faced with the all -round shots of the Chinese, the traditional references specify their target more.A choice of maturity but also of viability where the Empire of the environment can be satisfied with its only geo-demographic perimeter.

But a phenomenon slowly takes shape and tries to connect the crowds.Now we go to put our fingers in the catch.

Non -static electricity

Adept of electrons, loaded particle flow, developments with electro-magnetic pushes and mega batteries fan, here are the news of the front guard at batteries.We start with my shot in the show: Ovaobike (from the Ottobike group).The Taiwanese brand offers three superb roadsters with a breathtaking look and the remarkable finish: the MCR-H, MCR-M and especially the MCR-S MCR-SPlace.Probably not the most efficient in the segment, these machines, however, have choices of innovative chassis and a line successfully combining both the origin of their energy and their belonging to the segment chosen.The Café Racer declination of the MCR-S is thus very convincing.It is especially the CT-X scooter that imposes it.What a style there too!Sports, powerful but elegant, the model masters the codes of the genre.Finally, a small typed motorcycle off-road completes the refreshing range of the manufacturer.

Another exemptioning brand, Motorcycle rod.A good stroke of hormones on the segment with the TS and its orbital rear wheel.The global style is powerful, elegant, giving the machine a strong presence but very fair.It lacks sensuality but it is to better pose the character.I like !And it will be my EICMA electric machine.Its more rational appearance than that of ovaobike and more refined elevates me.Rod, a sensation toy that makes vibrate ... it is necessarily the drive.

Unmissable actor in the segment, zero delivers a GT version of his SRS.A high bubble and valoches to browse the immensity of the 200 km of autonomy.At its side sits a sport-classical version produced by Deus.It is pleasantly drawn and very effective in style.It looks like a modernized period motorcycle.A nice idea.

Further on, Vmoto offers his stash.Equivalent 125, this pretty machine throws in it and turns out to be clever with its integrated trunk.To be continued…

Discreet, the French Nawa features his unique model, daring, very couture and very Frenchie.Still in development, the motorcycle deserves a future other than that of living room sculpture.

Finally, I will necessarily mention an Italian: the Piaggio 1 (One), a sympathetic electric scooter but without much revolution.Too bad, we expected more flavor.

Strongly tomorrow

Rationalization, globalization, mutations and circumspection.These seem to me the watchwords of this 2022 edition.At a time when "change" is hammered as a norm, the company and the manufacturers seem doubtful to the imposed future.Is right.The long march of an announced energy renewal is vague, paved with questionable interests and confronted with much more objective realities ...

In short, we advance quietly and a little groped in this world that has become more moving than mobile.

Tomorrow ... Aaaah, tomorrow ... it must be better.And he is preparing today.The superb poster of the ECIMA 2022 is thus double reading.It evokes the style of dynamism, euphoria and optimism that has become unfortunate, almost anachronistic.Or, on the contrary, it aims to be symbol of a new start, tribute to the living past to draw an equally lively future and causing via solutions that are still largely stammering.Besides, the big absent is finally the hydrogen vehicle.

In Milan, there are of course the slew of equipment manufacturers, accessorists, manufacturers of tires, suspensions, helmets and favage of cleaning products, lubricants.A parallel world but essential to the economy, necessarily circular, of the world of the two wheels.

Worse at EICMA, there are hostesses.Less than before certainly.There too, the evolution makes good and less good, sometimes even without asking the advice of the main interested parties ... as with the future of our vehicles in fact.

In the end, the central question of all this whirlwind is perhaps that of the mobile human, of his expectations without demago and beyond, that of his dreams of horizons: towards where and how?

In the meantime, all you have to do is discover all the models in our special new 2022 section, with branding by brand and by category of motorcycles.