2019 EICMA: Kymco's six-speed electric bike

Kymco is doing its best to make riding an electric motorbike is engaging as throwing a leg over a conventional engine.

The company's RevoNex motorcycle mates an electric motor to a six-speed gearbox to emulate the traditional rider-machine interaction.

For those riders who don't fancy changing gears, the clutchless gearbox will automatically shift.

Kymco says the RevoNex will hit 100km/h in 3.9 seconds, on its way to a top speed of 200km/h.

There are no details on range or recharging times, presumably because technology improvements could change both figures before the bike is scheduled to hit showrooms in 2021.

We do know the RevoNex will use quality components, with Brembo brakes and Ohlins suspension fitted to the bike on show at EICMA, along with Metzeler Racetec rubber.

Kymco says the RevoNex has "Adaptive Machine Personality", which is their way of describing riding modes.

The modes themselves are equally entertainingly named, with the Taiwanese-based company describing them as Poised, Assertive, Bold, and Extreme.

Poised lets riders "glide through the neighborhood quietly"; Assertive is said to display "the rider’s inner strength with power and civility"; Bold steps it up with "immense might for occasional spirited riding" and the Extreme mode "screams out the passion hidden within the rider’s heart”.

The poetic descriptions don't end there – the RevoNex uses an "active acoustic motor".

In Kymco's words: "The motor is designed with a multi-frequency acoustics generator that enhances the native sound of the motor. Combining the resonating sound of AAM with the mechanical sound of the transmission, the acoustic note of RevoNex has profound depth and complexity ...Kymco AAM provides street bike riders the fascinating sound that serves as an important media of human-machine connection.”

Can't wait to hear about it when the bike rolls into showrooms two years from now.