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This article was published by Joe Donaldson (@Joey D) on September 19th, 2018 in the Car Culture category.
The Wednesday Want Goes Two-Wheelin' With the Lotus C-01 Sport Bike
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It looks good in the black and gold (not John Player, no sir) livery:
There's also one like this with green stripes instead.
I somehow missed this when it emerged. It's an interesting and apparently successful cross-brand type promotion thingy, I suppose. I don't know how it can be called a sport bike, though. Only the front wheel is 19" - so it's like someone converted a cruiser to a cafe racer and put a rather neat looking fairing around it, I must say.
Still, 200 bhp from that 1190 lump just makes me think KTM should bring back the RC8 - the sweetest handling twin cylinder (actual) sport bike for the road would make for a nice antidote to the current (and imminent) crop of super duper bikes.
Other production bikes that basically look like concepts would include the likes of Husqvarna's Svart- and Vitpilen models, Honda's NM4 Vultus, Aprilia's imaginatively named Moto and Suzuki's B-King - special mention to Yamaha's bonkers Niken, and the Norton V4 is also a pretty cool retro-future sport bike, but is still not in production yet.
There's also one like this with green stripes instead.
I somehow missed this when it emerged. It's an interesting and apparently successful cross-brand type promotion thingy, I suppose. I don't know how it can be called a sport bike, though. Only the front wheel is 19" - so it's like someone converted a cruiser to a cafe racer and put a rather neat looking fairing around it, I must say.
Still, 200 bhp from that 1190 lump just makes me think KTM should bring back the RC8 - the sweetest handling twin cylinder (actual) sport bike for the road would make for a nice antidote to the current (and imminent) crop of super duper bikes.
Other production bikes that basically look like concepts would include the likes of Husqvarna's Svart- and Vitpilen models, Honda's NM4 Vultus, Aprilia's imaginatively named Moto and Suzuki's B-King - special mention to Yamaha's bonkers Niken, and the Norton V4 is also a pretty cool retro-future sport bike, but is still not in production yet.
