Concept Africa Twin Enduro Sports: Honda skids … artistically !

Honda is not taking four roads at EICMA 2016 with its Africa Twin Enduro Sports, a lean and radicalized concept of its successful road trail. MNC tells you all about this original twin-cylinder engine hump swallower project…

"The Enduro Sports concept is designed to make the ‘Queen of TT’, more than any other multi-cylinder trail running at the moment," describes the Japanese manufacturer, who exhibited this salivating Africa Twin Enduro Sports alongside his at the motorbike from Milan (Italy).

Also imagined by Honda’s R&D department in Rome (Italy), this styling exercise aims to highlight one of the Africa Twin’s highly appreciated qualities: its real efficiency off the beaten track, which it owes to its close balance. perfection and performance on a "human scale" (95 hp and 98 Nm) of its vertical twin-cylinder of 998 cc (read in particular the and our).

The designers have made every effort to lighten the basic model, both visually and on the scale: an interesting objective insofar as the 232 kg of the Africa Twin, even well distributed, require control and tone in all terrain … And in a scree! The front part of this Enduro Sports thus displays a minimalist fork crown topped by a small windshield, much shorter and narrower than the original more protective windshield..

Same speed for the side scoops visually close to those of the Honda CRF cross and enduro single cylinders used by the creative engineers of the Roman R&D. The rear of the bike is not to be outdone with a radically lightened stern, typical of TT bikes. The result, rather attractive, is a sort of successful mix ebetween the brand’s enduro motorcycles and thea CRF450 Rally de rallye-raid.

In detail, the superb Excel spoked wheels with anodized hubs and the Termignoni raised silencer establish off-road claims, as do the notched footrests, the flat handlebars with foam or the protections on the plungers of the inverted fork. The shoe (in metal on its central part and in carbon on its sides) illustrates the desire to combine lightness and strength. Finally, Michelin tires with Desert Race nipples (in 21 and 18 ") are fitted to this prototype, for which an outlet as a production model would not displease us….

Concept Africa Twin Enduro Sports photo gallery

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