FEATURE
2017 INTERNATIONAL MOTORCYCLE SHOW REVIEW
P82
The best job in motorcycling is…
"Designing a bike as extreme as the Superleggera
is fantastic, the best job in motorcycling. The de-
sign team has no limit and we are not told to keep
to a budget like you are on a standard road bike—
we can do whatever we want and think about the
costs later on!"
-Cristian Gasparri,
Ducati's Head of Vehicle Project Management
No limits. Those are
the words a motorcycle
designer longs to hear.
When they do, a bike
like the Superleggera
often results.
Kawasaki won't be building any air-cooled retro bikes…
"The W800 has stopped production and while we are interested in the retro market, we are not ready yet.
We see retro bikes in Kawasaki's future, and a few years ago we showed a retro Z1000 made by an Italian
company, which was an interesting concept. But sadly an air-cooled engine is not an option for us anymore."
-Tsuyoshi Shibata,
Kawasaki Motors Europe Product Planning Manager
You are the
weakest link…
there'll be no
more W800
Kawasakis. Not
that there were
any in the U.S.,
anyway.
