COMING TO GRIPS
Yep. That’s what I said to when I first saw it. WTF? Is this someone’s idea of a bad joke? I mean, this thing has a head only a mother could love. And is it a motorcycle? Is it a trike? Yeah, I hear ya.
For starters, I agree that it’s aesthetically challenged. Kinda like a transvestite with a beard. You’ll read road tests that will try and soften that element with euphemisms galore. “Bold”, “Different”, “Modern” … that sort of stuff. Nup. It challenges the eye from the front, looks like a motorcycle from the rear. The bow looks like a geometric LSD trip. All cobby swoops and bumps, and let’s face it, a pair of inward supported 15in wheels and a four forks between which you could drive a Kenworth. It had the ugly stick poised before birth. You try and design
