Car manufacturers have long sketched wild and wonderful concept cars and trucks that have captured people's imaginations. Big lights, pasted-on tires, ludicrous wings and winglets that move and frolic, and interiors that would barely hold you in the seat, but look straight out of science fiction. They're brilliant, fantastical, stupid bucks that likely don't work and would never work if they were even considered for production.
Concept cars are purely ways to let their designers loose from the constraints of regulations and rules, and to preview what's likely to be their next design language that'll be embodied—somewhat—in the cars they sell to you or me. That concept pipeline, however, doesn't exist in the powersports world. What you see is often what you get, with manufacturers just showing up one day with either all-new, ready-for-production machines or semi-updated things that look nicer than the previous generation. And they're often already on a dealership lot when the news goes live of their introduction.
