Looks like something out of Battlestar Galactica
My thoughts exactly
, definitely 70's 'futuristic' styling - though these days you have to qualify that with a 'the original' Battlestar Galactica, as there's been a fairly successful remake in recent(ish) years.
I will say one thing for it though - as fugly as it is, it's representative of a time when companies seemed to take more in the way of risks with design and styling.
How similar do today's 'mid sized' ADV bikes look? - I mean, I love 'em, but if you put the Tiger 900, Multistrada 950, BMW f900xr, Versys 1000 and probably half a dozen others in a line, how different are they? Obviously part of that is ergonomics, but the rest?
They all seem to be creeping closer to some kind of 'ideal' shape (as dictated by...something or other determined by some overpaid focus-group marketing wallas) at the end of which they'll move the goalposts again because someone else has proved conclusively in another random study that facing backwards is healthier...
p.s. that's not a beak, that's the
mother of all nosejobs
p.p.s.
The Honda CN250 is a scooter introduced by Honda to the United States market in 1986. It was marketed in the US as the Helix and in other parts of the world as the Fusion or Spazio. It was so successful that, as of 2009, it was still in production in Japan. Wikipedia... (yes, Japan is now officially a part of the great kingdom of Wikipedia)
Spazio!!?
Just about says it all, doesn't it [I know - that's very one-pc of me, but what the hell - I'm of an age where people used to be allowed to find the humour in that kind of thing without fear of being shamed by all the snowflakes - and I'm an immature bastard to boot
That said, I mean no disrespect to any disabled persons reading this]