Futurebikes
June, 1981
Once a year, the men who make motorcycles gather in Cologne, Germany, to compare notes, display their wares and, occasionally, to make public the figments of their imagination. They are manufacturers. They provide goods. They are bound by the law of supply and demand. They are not free to build what they want; they have to build what the customer wants. Sometimes, for the pure joy of it, the designers play with the possible, the fantastic, the if-only. At the last gathering, Honda unveiled a 500...
