Written by Andrew Jones
When you think about it, Italy having one of the world’s biggest and best bike shows makes total sense. Like Japan with their bullet trains and the Swiss being so good at watches, motorcycles seem to be at the very heart of the Italian psyche. And one visit to a show like Motor Bike Expo 2019 only drives the point home. It’s not wall-to-wall factory bikes or a bunch of business types ?shifting units? and exchanging email addresses. It’s honest-to-goodness, grass-roots passion and real builders proudly displaying their blood, sweat and tears rendered in metal. Here’s some photo highlights.
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As much as we’d like to toot our own horn, we’re going to refrain from revisiting the 2019 Pipeburn stand ? we did enough of that while we were there. Needless to say that we went bigger and better than last year with a premium selection of bikes and guests, including killer builds from London’s Auto Fabrica, Swiss luminaries VTR Customs, Germany?s Kingston Customs, Belgique boffin Bernard Mont, Viba Motor’s Yann, the very fun Jack Watkins and our good mate Dave from Bottpower. Thanks to all of them for supporting us. Chocks away…
Our brief from the show’s organisers was simple – find Europe?s best bikes outside of italy for that particular year and get them at the show. As exciting as this may seem, it’s never easy having to...