MOTO PHOTOS: 2018 Motor Bike Expo, Verona, Italy
Written by Andrew Jones
After you’ve been to more than your fair share of bike shows, it’s easy to become a little jaded about the whole shebang. Too many people, too few cool bikes, greasy food and those early evening hangovers that only one too many midday beers can give you. I thought I’d really seen it all. But within 30 minutes of arriving at the 2018 Moto Bike Expo in Verona, I was rethinking my convictions quicker than a televangelist at a jelly wrestling contest. There is a better way – and I think MBE has found it. Here’s how.
Being an East Coast Aussie, my bike show yardstick is set by the local Sydney motorcycle show, which alternates between Sydney and Melbourne. 2017 was Sydney’s turn, and little had changed since the last show. Take one aircraft hanger-sized space, add a whole bunch of factory bikes you’ve usually seen before and add way too many people. Of course, it’s probably the same in your neck of the woods as well. Just barely acceptable if stock bikes light your fuse – and really lacking if quality customs are your thing.
To say that MBE was a little different to that ilk of bike show would be like saying that your childhood Lego houses were a little different to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater. Spread over an inconceivably large amount of space, the show would easily be eight times larger than any show I’d ever been to before. And here’s the best bit; each one of it’s s...
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