This summer BMW released their Concept Ninety, a retro modern motorcycle roughly based on the 40 year old R90 design. This month, Suzuki followed up with a retro modern styled sport bike called the Recursion Concept. The bike has beautiful classic lines with modern angles, a 588cc water-cooled two-cylinder engine… and turbo.
The idea behind the small displacement engine equipped with an inter-cooled turbocharge system is to offer a lighter weight motorbike with all the power of a bigger, heavier liter-bike.
Partially faired, it’s a more modern take on the sport classic style.
The whole bike is quite easy on the eyes if you ask me, if it rides as well as it looks I think we’ll have a winner in the classic modern category. I for one hope that bike design continues down this road, as many sport bikes (to me) look like bloated space ships without all the perks of flight. First thing’s first, let’s see if this bike makes it to production.
Check out the great video walk around from Motor Show on youtube, and the full article on the Suzuki Recursion concept on Asphalt & Rubber.
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On Monday, I crashed my Monster at about 50mph. I suffered road rash on my hip and lots of bruising- and Pandora has flesh wounds of her own. Here’s what exactly happened, and the lowdown on the gear that saved my life.
Posted on November 30, 2013 in Motorcycles by Alicia Mariah Elfving