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IDN OCTOBER / NOVEMBER 2022 (# 169 )
NEwsROOM ........................................................ 6-33,64 COMMENT - Pick your crisis !.................................. 4
Looking for a crisis ? Robin Bradley says there ' s no shortage of choices . If the war between Russia and Ukraine doesn ' t inspire , how about global economic downturn ? Inflation ? Materials shortages ? Energy pricing ? Sabotaged oil pipelines ? Our " Little Shop of Horrors " has them all and more besides !
MARKET STATISTICS .......................................... 6-7
It ' s a mixed picture - when is a downturn not a downturn ? When a downward trend in new motorcycle registrations still leaves most of the major markets in Europe posting record or near record unit sales numbers .
100,000
50,000
Germany registrations to August
159,704
+ 0.03 %
159,756
2021 2022
95,362
-7.11 %
PTW MOTORCYCLE
88,581
40,000
20,000
100,000
80,000
60,000
UK registrations to August
78,492 83,210
PTW
+ 6.01 %
2021
73,948 78,216
MOTORCYCLE
2022
+ 5.77 %
LETTER FROM ITALY .............................................. 28
Production investments and new product R & D - Elisabetta Quadrini of Turin based Newfren points to the importance of production investments and new product R & D as being one of the few positive ways of dealing with the issues that all businesses are facing one way or another at this time .
SAUDI ARABIA ........................................................ 32
As Barcelona based MotoGP rights holder Dorna announces that India is on the race calendar for 2023 ( definitely a good thing ), how does the signing of a deal to race in Saudi Arabia square with a corporate world scrambling to cloak itself with ESG credentials ?
BRADLEY REPORT .............................................. 8-14
Honda : We have a slew of Honda news in this month ' s edition - at least three new corporate alliances , Q1 results , celebrating 50 years of MX models , latest fiscal results and , at last , something to back up the Honda Hornet hype .
ASIAN POWERSPORTS NEWS ............................ 18-19
QJ Motors ' Benelli brand continues to make the news , Benda gets Chinese approval for its V4 cruiser , and Ben Purvis asks if the new JEDI K750 Suter collaboration parallel twin is the most advanced and best looking sports bike to come out of China so far ?
MotoFUTURE .................................................. 16-17
Energica says goodbye to the FIM Enel MotoE World Cup , Can-Am releases the first concept drawings , Zero gives a debut to the world ' s first electric ADV model , and Kawasaki finally appears to be closing in on electric and hybrid production readiness .
PROGUIDE ...................................................................................... 34-60
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