A Chinese motorcycle company by the name of Letbe recently showcased the Arthur 700, a middleweight motorcycle that somehow manages to feel both genuinely interesting and unintentionally hilarious at the same time.
Now, we actually talked about this bike some three years ago, and now it seems to be back and with quite a few updates, as well. On paper, the bike actually sounds pretty competitive. It packs a 693cc liquid-cooled parallel twin making 75 horsepower and 50 pound-feet of torque, weighs 445 pounds, and reportedly tops out at 115 miles per hour. Nothing about those numbers is outrageous. In fact, they land right in the same territory as plenty of established middleweight bikes like the Yamaha MT-07, Kawasaki Z650, and Suzuki GSX-8S.
