user interface rather than a‘ dash’ with any amount of information on hand. But despite all of Honda’ s expertise in lots of motoring fields, there were challenges. Two of the big obstacles were aesthetics and accepted norms. Tsutsumi-San described the challenge,“ For ICE models, there’ s an established theory of beauty. The Outlier breaks that convention. We had to explore new balance and scale to make EV characteristics appealing.” With the whole twowheeled powered theme rapidly changing and the lines between e-bikes, motorcycles and everything in between getting pretty murky, it is a market that is coming... ready or not.
BEEN THERE, DONE THAT, BUT NEED THE T-SHIRT?
Honda is releasing a whole new range of apparel to cover the fashion needs of Honda riders, and those that wish they were. With clothing that sits with the new retro models, the head-in-the-shed rockets, dirt
bikes and adventure, the range represents the lifestyle link when on or off your Honda. The range is, in fact, split into six categories, Honda Vintage, Honda Classical Heritage, Honda Racing, Honda Tribute, Honda Urban Fun and Honda Wing. The new range has designs from the present day, your parent’ s rose-tinted glasses era and even Grandad’ s tall tale era, many but not all may or may not be actually true but the generations can all enjoy telling such tales, dressed in era. Naturally, they are all top-quality garments made of top quality materials.
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