TheScooterScoop

(Yikes! The Cargobike is creepy… riding one would be like humping a peep down the road.)

Here our super scoop sleuth, Dudel, offers his very brief take of the Paris Motor Show (the first auto show ever was in Paris, did you know that?). Take it away Dudel!

Cyberscooter.it has photos from the Paris show. The Can-Am Spyder made an appearance, as did the scooter-based Cargobike, the current Malagutis were in attendence, as was everyone’s favorite the Kymco Grand Dink… it’s not a party without the Grand Dink. Finally, in an effort to really REALLY piss me off Honda saw fit to – once again – display the GRF-1 (aka Griffon) featuring front storage for a helmet and a 750cc flat-four boxer engine mated to the HFT hydraulic transmission. It wasn’t good enough to assert that this motorcycle-scooter fusion bike was a “near future model” back in 2003. No, in an effort to both frustrate and irritate me Honda saw fit to drag this bike to every show for the next four years as if to say, “Honda wants you to suffer, Honda hates you.”

Um, ahem… Thanks for that piece of journalism there Dudel. No bad feelings for Honda or anything, right? Hehe. No really, I laughed out loud when I read that last sentence. Thanks for that round up. Any comments from the readers? You know you wanna take a jab at Honda. If you wanna see more photos from the show, click on the title link.

***UPDATE 10/12/07***
Of course Dudel isn’t gonna let a little bad blood with Honda get in the way of his scoopocity. Below is a Honda concept called the Sphere and it’s their answer to low-center storage on a 2-wheeler. I’m not sure if it stores as much as the CargoBike, but it’s much more elegantly executed. You could also store your tiny pet down there like the helmeted chihuahua we saw.