Eicma

[LivinLOS]

A 99 percenter's view of EICMA 2012 - Hell for Leather

Pretty good HFL summary..

 

[KTMphil]

Cool

The retro Vespa looks beautiful

Vespa’s newest product is 30 percent more fuel efficient and styled a a retro futuristic update to the original 1946 prototype.
Piaggio itself hit it out of the park with the new Vespa. After decades of milking a great name for all its worth, churning out one wet cardboard iteration of the worlds motorcycle icon after another, the latest concept is a design tour de force. Beautiful in a genuinely feminine way without being cutesy or contrived, it is simultaneously elegant and approachable, a trick that only the classic Vespa models have been able to do. Besides that, and some modest changes to plebian transport products like the Beverly and X10, it is clear from trade reports that Piaggio, like the big four, is concentrating on south-east Asia. Factories are springing up in Indonesia and Indian plants are expanding. Expect small Aprilias to be sourced from the sub continent within a couple of years, and priced accordingly. For once, not being wrapped in the Italian flag may be an asset, because a hot looking and affordable future RS250 will not lose any appeal with the words Made in India stamped into it.