When does a motorcycle stop being a motorcycle? Some folks say it’s when you add a third wheel, which rules out the trikes, ...

But what followed next was 30 years of automatic nonexistence in the motorcycle market. A few tried including the likes of Aprilia with its 850GT but it went down the drain far quicker than the Honda.

Automatic motorbikes are very rare. Or rather, they used to be. But now the swathe of ‘twist ‘n go’ scooters have equivilents in the larger, more powerful classes of bikes too. With changing ...