Intermot update 4: I have now left the building and am back home in England. Yesterday was just an endless succession of press conferences and harvesting of material and press kits. There was no time in between to update, not with only two legs anyway. I started the day at my hotel after only 5 hours of sleep. Then paid a 20 Euro deposit to bring the power adaptor with me from the hotel. I knew I wouldn't have a chance to return it so it's a very expensive adaptor! went straight to the press office and published some of the stuff from yesterday. As you will have noticed it's very little news that I haven't already published! we actually got the full 2007 Yamaha line-up. All that was missing from Honda was the Hornet and CBR125. We had all Suzuki and Kawasaki news so it was only a few bits and pieces from small manufacturers such as Benelli and Moto Morini missing. We got the Beemers yesterday and all in all the news from this years Intermot has been a slight disappointment. The Japanese wants to sell the Euro 2 models before they do the full model upgrades we are waiting for. Yet again Honda disappoints big time by doing nothing to develop and upgrade its V models, VFR and VTR. Suzuki have kept back quite a bit, but still the new B-king and GSX-R1000 are pretty cool. Kawasaki delivered a strong new line-up in the Z1000, Versys and new hard-core ZX-6R in particular. 1400 GTR also looks to be BMW's strongest competitor in the high end touring market. We know for a fact that Kawasaki have saved at least one new model or concept for later this year. I think it's got something to do with a 800cc high performance bike. Anyway, Intermot, I worked my way through all the new Honda's, Kawasakis, Yamaha's and Suzukis one by one. I enjoyed the company of my old Norwegian and Swedish colleagues and there was more talk about the future than usual. After the BMW press conference I had to throw the towel in and head back to the press office to finish off some work and start FTP'ing some material. Luckily I got to borrow an USB cable from a collegue to download my pictures from the show. I just haven't had time yet to prepare the high resolution images for web. I collected the press kits from the remaining launches and packed my bags to leave for the airport. But first I had to head over to the Motorrad office to hand over my material from the day and the Honda and Harley pre-event press conference. In the end I had to open my office on a bench outside the Intermot whilst waiting for my taxi. Norbert from Motorrad-Online rushed out to meet me with two high speed USB memory sticks. Prepared the folders so that each was less than 1GB and transferred them to the USB sticks out in the open. Good job it didn't rain! Anyway, Motorrad has got my stuff up now before I have had time myself. The lack of ladies at the Intermot was annoying and once again we have to rely on the International motorcycle & scooter show at the NEC in Birmingham for that stuff. With less than 40 minutes left of check in I had to leave. Finished the transfer to the memory sticks and begged to get the first taxi as there was a queue by now. I made Cologne/Bonn airport in time and then the flight got delayed so I was safe. Arrived Gatwick just after 9 O'clock sometime and rode back North. Arrived home just after 1AM. I still haven't gone to bed as I am preparing pictures. I am glad the biggest show is only once a year. TS