The motorcycle industry has had its fair share of doomsayers this year, but the EICMA show in Milan was full of fireworks. There were concepts aplenty?led by the Indian FTR1200 tracker, the Honda CB4 Interceptor and the Moto Guzzi V85.
But the production bikes were just as good, and that?s what we?re focusing on now. The six fine machines shown here will be rolling into showrooms soon, and angling after a place in your garage. You have been warned.

Honda CB1000R Honda?s last attempt at a ?modern classic? was the CB1100?an honest, attractive machine that failed to set the marketplace on fire, probably due to its portly 540 pound (245 kilo) wet weight. Honda is now attempting to crack the naked market from a different angle, and so we have the 2018 CB1000R. With streetfighter-tinged styling and a whopping 143 hp on tap, it?s a modern day café racer cleverly designed to appeal to folks who profess not to like café racers. It also sticks pretty close to the Neo-Sports Café concept that Honda revealed last month at the Tokyo Motor Show.

The inline four engine comes from the CBR1000RR, boosted by 20 hp and governed by three throttle maps and a ride-by-wire system. The frame is all new though, and there?s fully adjustable Showa suspension with Big Piston forks up front. Wet weight, we?re told, is 467 pounds?around 212 kilos, a substantial drop on the CB1100. If Honda gets the pricing right on the CB1000R, we reckon they?re onto a winner. [More]

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