Last year, the big news at EICMA was the Africa Twin, and all Honda’s wacky concept adventure bikes.

This year, Big Red combined those two, to build the Africa Twin Enduro Sports concept. So Wot’s It All About?

This concept machine is mostly based on the CRF1000L Africa Twin, but with bits from Honda’s CRF450 Rally bike integrated to cut weight. Bodywork has been changed to look more dangerous (a smaller screen to stay out of the way off-road), and hey, look — someone bolted on a Termignoni exhaust, looking like it was ripped off a Dakar machine …

But, will anything come of it? One one hand, there’s certainly lots of money to be made in diversifying your adventure bike lineup — BMW, Suzuki, Triumph, et. al. have realized this, and have different editions of their flagship ADV steeds on the market to fill specific niches.

On the other hand, Honda’s been known to tease us with juicy adventure bike concepts before, then not follow through. Take these CBR650-based machines from last year’s EICMA show — tantalizing, but never released. At least, not yet. So, don’t get your hopes up at this point.

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