I went to my dealer’s touring day, part of a now monthly series. Lots of really nice bikes, lots of fumes!
There’s my ride, in amongst tons of very nice bikes…. I barely fit in!
MV Agusta Brutale & friends at Ebina SA
Some interesting bikes there…. Like this Magni Moto Guzzi
Moto Guzzi Magni
Bimota Mantra
Bimota Tesi 3D
All Carbon Ducati 999S
From Gotemba, we went north toward Fuji-san, and then took Route 23 west and then went all the way around the mountain, eventually getting to the 413 to go east back toward Tokyo.
Here we are at a michi no eki on the northwest side of Fuji-san.
Finally stopped for lunch at Kawaguchi-ko!
Lunch was hohtoh:
HohToh Lunch - Yamanashi specialty
Special “Moto Corse” treatment!
Motocorse & theDude...
Picture Time! This is where it gets fun.
Some of you may have remembered this bike from the Tokyo Motorcycle Show. Started life as a MV Agusta Brutale Wally, now it is totally redone using the best of Moto Corse stuff. Lots of fancy bits on there! Now it is sporting the regular Moto Corse full exhaust, where at the motorcycle show, it had the prototype new exhaust which may be coming out soon….
MV Agusta Brutale Wally - Moto Corse.
MV Agusta Brutale Wally
Line of Bimotas
The whole set!
All bikes with some Sakura!
In Doshi, they made these bad boys (plus a Ducati 848) available to test ride…. I didn’t partake, though I really wanted to try the 848. Roads were a bit crowded at that big rest area on the 413 in Doshi. Next time….
Test Ride: Bimota DB7 and DB6C
All in all, a fun ride out, great to see so many fantastic specimens of Italian Bikes!
More pictures on the Moto Corse Blog.
Great map by Kohei-san here.
giddyup!
@theDude
Nice pics and writeup. Very enjoyable day, some of the coolest bikes I’ve ever seen, and a good bunch of guys. Really looking forward to the next one
Motocorse
PS: Kohei-sans’ map mashup is very interesting!!!!!