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I mean these are also fairly bug eyed and edgy looking, but man, it still looks like it wants to be a bike.
Somebody pointed out in one of my pics once that my bike looked beautifully full of life in comparison to the many many drab and dull crossovers and trucks all around it. It feels like an amount of modern bike aesthetic design has gone that way too. Designed to blend in and look plain.
I love sportbikes for how loud their visual design is, bright vibrant colors, big beautiful plastics, artistic flair from the shape of the headlights to the point of the tail. Something that anyone can look at and atleast feel something.
Somehow even old UJMs and British standards could still achieve a level of beauty with such a utilitarian focus, but a lot of modern nakeds seem totally confused what they want to be and ultimately look like nothing. Maybe I’m just overlooking what the modern generation has to offer and idolizing classics, but it’s hard too look at an MT07/09/10 and feel anything. It just looks like sci fi greeble applied as a full visual direction