Kawasaki showed us a tantalizing alternative in 2013 with its “Concept J” three-wheeler. This machine takes design from the 19th century into the 21st by way of enabling the machine to adapt itself to us rather than the other way around. In this, it is truly ground breaking, because despite such devices as sport-tourers or dual-sports, our bikes demand that we adapt to them, not vice-versa. Kawasaki’s elegant suspension design also changes the front-wheel track (distance between the wheel hubs) from very narrow in sportbike mode to wide in touring/cruise mode. The safety advantages of this ought to be obvious, at least to any rider who has strafed apexes with a Piaggio MP3 leaning three-wheeler in any of its versions (I rode Piaggio’s Gilera-branded 500cc “Fuoco” to get the grins in the turns). Of course, you can overcook a corner on one of these as you can on any two-wheeler, but in my experience, your chances of steering out of your mistake are better than with a conventional two-wheeler. he Concept J remains a concept, we’re told, but its unprecedented adaptable design ought to be pursued for production, so that we can at last ride a bike-trike-thing that allows us to knife through the esses with a two-wheeled sportbike’s excellence and then allow us to sit upright for creeping through town or savoring the wonders of nature on a leisurely tour. Subscribe to Motodrift -https://goo.gl/mSyGnO
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