Imagine this: you’re a die-hard cruiser rider who’s fallen on tough times. You scrounge pennies on the dime to keep riding your $30,000 Harley-Davidson Road King, all while covering life essentials such as rent, taxes, and a generally higher cost of living. Deep in your heart, you’re a die-hard cruiser rider who refuses to embrace the growing crop of middleweight offerings that are now entering the market.
You sulk, whine, and cry online about how the media targets your beloved Harley-Davidson, steadfast in the belief that the bar and shield is still the greatest motorcycle manufacturer in the history of the universe.
Meanwhile, younger folks are enjoying what the industry has to offer, all while spending what you would on gas for a year on a shiny new middleweight machine—a bike you by no means consider a “real motorcycle.” Of course, at the end of it all, the real loser here is you, because hot damn, is the middleweight segment on fire lately. We’ve been seeing all sorts of new entrants into the market, particularly when it comes to cruisers from the likes of Kawasaki, Honda, and CFMoto.
And now, Italian manufacturer Moto Morini stirs the pot even more with its new middleweight cruiser offering dubbed the Calibro. And here’s the kicker: 700cc is all it needs to do cruiser and bagger stuff—who’d a thunk it?
