The Yamaha MT-07 is one of my all-time favorite bikes. It’s not the fastest thing on the planet. It’s not the most premium. But that 689cc CP2 twin, that punchy midrange, that playful chassis, the way it’ll loft the front wheel just because you looked at the throttle funny. It’s pure hooligan energy on two wheels.
So when a small French engineering outfit called Furion decided to use the MT-07 as the base for its latest prototype, I paid attention.
Furion isn’t a big manufacturer. It’s an engineering company out of France that specializes in hybrid systems and energy recovery tech. Back in 2017 it teased a rotary-powered hybrid called the M1 that never quite made it to production. This time, it’s back with something arguably more grounded and somehow even more radical.
