A couple of sites have been posting some photos allegedly of the new Empulse being assembled. The photos first appeared on an Italian e-motorcycle blog which, usually, is a pretty good source for this stuff. He has corrected the claim. See:
http://motoelettriche.wordpress.com/2012/04/18/esclusivo-le-prime-immagini-e-specifiche-tecniche-della-empulse-r-iet/# HellforLeather ran the photos (before knowing they were not the production Empulse) and BrammoBrian noted, "These are VERY old photos of our first DVP (Development Prototype) with the six-speed IET transmission. Definitely not photos of the production bike. You’ll need to wait until May 8th for those. Nice try, though!
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(This was in the comments section of HellForLeatherMagazine.com, which is a subscription-only site, but which I highly recommend subscribing to).
