At last year’s EICMA, the Japanese company unveiled an all-new platform – an electronically-blown forced induction V3 motor. Many wondered when, or if, it would ever find its way into a full-blown motorcycle.
At the time, Honda said the three-cylinder concept’s “development will continue towards mass output,” explaining that it “sees the development of this V3 engine with an electrical compressor as a new challenge in the area of internal combustion engines.”
MikeyG & I have just got back to our annual pilgrimage to Motorcycle Live in Brum - and the V3R was one of the wonderous bikes on show - with what is effectively an electric supercharger. It was difficult to work out quite what you were looking at - with the crazy cammo wrap on the prototype bike (photos here). Gonna be a model to watch out for when it hits production though!
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