International Motorcycle Shows: The IMS Season Starts Up Again This Weekend In Cleveland. Here’s What We Saw At The IMS Show In New York

International Motorcycle Shows: The IMS Season Starts Up Again This Weekend In Cleveland. Here’s What We Saw At The IMS Show In New York

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The Progressive International Motorcycle Shows (IMS) starts back up this weekend in Cleveland, following about a month-and-a-half break. After the Cleveland show, there will be three more shows, February 2-4 in Dallas, Texas; February 9-11 on Chicago; and February 23-25 in Washington, DC. To show you what you might see at the remaining shows, here are some random shots taken during the New York show. For tickets and additional information, go online to www.motorcycleshows.com.

Yamahalube/Westby Racing YZF-R1 racebike. Mathew Scholtz rode this bike to the 2017 MotoAmerica Superstock 1000 Championship. Photo by John Ulrich.

Indian 1133cc FTR1200 concept streetbike replica inspired by the Scout FTR750 that Jared Mees used to win the 2017 AFT Twins Championship. Photo by John Ulrich.

Royal Enfield Continental GT 650 Twin, the Indian company’s latest and biggest retro streebike. Photo by John Ulrich.

Former FIM Superbike World Champion Tom Sykes sits on a new Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R SE after riding it into the Kawasaki display area during a press conference held on Friday morning, before the public was admitted. Sykes also rode a new Ninja 400 in during the press event, which covered multiple models. Photo by John Ulrich.

The standard version of the new Kawasaki Z900RS on display, with the optional retro paint scheme version and an original 1973 Z1 in the background. Photo by John Ulrich.

Kawasaki Motors Corp. USA President (and long-time motorcycle enthusiast) Yoshi Tamura stands behind an original 1973 Kawasaki Z1 while watching Tom Sykes talk about the new Ninja 400. Earlier in the weekend, Tamura said he had an extensive collection of U.S. magazines from the 1980s–and mentioned reading various stories written by “Ulrich-san”! Photo by John Ulrich.

A Kawasaki ZX-10R SE model on display, featuring Showa electronic suspension control that monitors wheel movement at 1000 hertz and updates damping settings to suit road (or track) conditions in real time. Photo by John Ulrich.

Close up of Showa front forks on a ZX-10R SE, showing wiring to electronic damping control system. Photo by John Ulrich.

Todd McNabney of Heroic Leathers holds up a street-riding hoodie built with a full anti-abrasion Kevlar lining along with polyurethane soft armor (which heats up and molds to the body during use) in the shoulders, elbows and back. It is designed to combine comfort and easy-to-use protection on the street. They’re available in off the rack or customized versions. Photo by John Ulrich.

A Royal Enfield Interceptor 650 Twin, with a more upright seating position than the Continental GT 650 model. Photo by John Ulrich.

Close up of the 648cc Royal Enfield twin-cylinder engine, which has a bore and stroke of 78 x 67.8 mm and features an uneven, 270-degree firing order along with a single overhead cam and four valves per cylinder, operated by rocker arms. Photo by John Ulrich.

An original 1962 Royal Enfield 650 built in England. The company crashed and burned along with the rest of the British motorcycle industry in the 1970s and the name is now owned by an Indian company. Photo by John Ulrich.

A Royal Enfield Classic Stealth model, a 500cc single-cylinder with two valves per cylinder, operated by pushrods. Photo by John Ulrich.

The right side of a Suzuki Scrambler concept bike based on the SV650, as seen in the Suzuki display area. The company is taking a survey of customer reaction to two versions of the bike, with different graphics on each side. Photo by John Ulrich.

The left side of the Suzuki SV650-based Scrambler concept bike. Photo by John Ulrich.

Suzuki’s explanation of its SV650 Scrambler concept bike survey. Photo by John Ulrich.

Using this nearby terminal, customers can vote on which version of the Suzuki SV650 Scrambler they prefer. Photo by John Ulrich.

A large display of vintage bikes was assembled at the New York IMS show, including this 750 Norton. The Cleveland show going on this weekend includes about 40 vintage bikes. Photo by John Ulrich.

An oil-in-frame twin-cylinder BSA, one of the last models produced before the British company’s demise. Photo by John Ulrich.

Two Team Obsolete racebikes, a three-cylinder 1972 BSA Rocket 3 with a Rob North frame and a factory race-shop engine built with P76 prototype crankcases meant for a 900cc streetbike version of the engine, which didn’t make it into production before the company went out of business. Behind the Rocket 3 is a 1966 BSA A50R 500cc twin-cylinder racebike ridden in U.S. vintage events by Don Vesco, Wayne Hosaka, and Jody Nicholas. Photo by John Ulrich.

A vintage single-cylinder Moto Guzzi on display in New York. Photo by John Ulrich.

A line of vintage (circa 1970s) Hondas on display, with a four-cylinder CB750 in the foreground, next to three two-cylinder models, a CX, a Hawk 400 and a CB450. Photo by John Ulrich.

Hudson Valley Motorcycles is a dealership located north of New York City and owned by the Alexander family. Here, former AMA Pro 750cc Supersport Champion Richie Alexander poses with a 2018 Ducati Panigale 1299 Final Edition V-Twin in the dealership’s display area at the New York IMS show. Photo by John Ulrich.

An Energica Ego electric sportbike. The company recently won the Dorna contract to build spec racebikes for a new electric class (known as the FIM Moto-e World Cup) which will run in conjunction with MotoGP events starting with demo laps at selected 2018 events and running at every event in 2019. Photo by John Ulrich.

Energica says its FastCharge system can recharge its bikes from zero to 85% battery capacity in under 30 minutes. Photo by John Ulrich.

An Energica Eva electric naked model, fitted out for sport-touring with optional accessories. Photo by John Ulrich.

An Alta street-legal electric supermoto bike in the Hudson Valley Motorcycles display area. Alta is one of several brands the New York dealershop carries. Photo by John Ulrich.

A display touting the Alta electric motorcycle’s battery pack. Photo by John Ulrich.

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