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Honda have been whetting the appetite of their off-road centric fanbase with a stunning new CRF450L Rally concept bike, first revealed at the Eicma show in Milan earlier this month, before being shipped to Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre for Motorcycle Live.

Honda have a long history of cool 125s to tempt your wallet from its hiding place, and if they build this pair that tradition looks sure to continue. Revealed in Milan, the concepts have emerged not from Japan, but from Honda’s Rome R&D centre design studio, which has been responsible for most of the firm’s funkier releases of late.

Somewhat coincidentally, following yesterday’s story on the new lap record at Jerez established during the first test of the new Triumph-powered Moto2 bikes, we received the following press release from Triumph discussing the power output of the machines (“producing more than 138 hp”), as well as the extensive development steps taken by the British firm in preparation for its role…