The "Brammo at EICMA" thread

[Brammofan]

Greg Stoermer wrote an "insider's report" on the EICMA visit:

http://www.brammo.com/blogs/?p=1748

An excerpt:

There was a noticeable change in attitude and acceptance in this years show than last.  Perhaps because we had a more grandiose booth?  Or because of our location?  I am unsure, but people knew who we were, knew about the bikes, and it was a rare moment when there were not people packing the floor of the Brammo Area.  Designers stopped by as well, some students, some just to say hi, others to show me their own Brammo creations.  Overall it was a very very positive show for Brammo and myself to attend

[protomech]

Good review of EICMA 2012 by Michael Uhlarik, who is responsible both for the headlights used by the 2012-2013 Zeros and the Empulse, as well as the Amarok P1 which hopefully will compete in TTXGP 2013.

Edit: No mention of electric bikes, but it's a good description of the lack of innovation of the incumbent gas bike industry. Brammo and Zero probably have 5x as many R&D engineers, proportionally, as Honda, Suzuki, et al.

Zero was not at EICMA this year, but Brammo was there and CRP unveiled the Energica.

[ttxgpfan]

I don't know.  It's hard for me to picture anyone having more engineers than Honda, proportional or not.