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2013 Sport-Touring Comparison Test: BMW K1600GT, BMW R1200RT, Kawasaki Concours 14, Triumph Trophy, Yamaha FJR1300

Sport touring, a hybrid category that blends the performance of sportbikes with the comfort of touring bikes, takes many forms. Some add a taller...

2013 Yamaha FJR1300 – Road Test Review

Every bike in this comparison has roots that go back decades, from the BMW R100RT in the late ’70s, to the BMW K100RT, Kawasaki...

2013 Triumph Trophy SE – Road Test Review

The Triumph Trophy SE is the only all-new model in this comparison, yet it seems strangely familiar. Its liquid-cooled, 1,215cc in-line triple is the...

2013 Kawasaki Concours 14 – Road Test Review

When the Kawasaki Concours 14 sped onto the sport-touring scene for 2008, it easily arm-wrestled the competition into submission. With its liquid-cooled, 1,352cc in-line...

2013 BMW R 1200 RT – Road Test Review

Now in its 34th year of production, the BMW R 1200 RT has long been sport touring’s standard-bearer. Designed, built and refined in the...

2013 BMW K 1600 GT – Road Test Review

Tremors and aftershocks are still being felt two years after the Big One, when BMW’s dynamic duo—the K 1600 GT and GTL—reconfigured touring’s tectonic...

2012 Yamaha FJR1300 | Road Test Review

Sometimes the less things change, the better they remain. Take Yamaha’s FJR1300, for example. The bike was introduced here for 2004, a sport-touring road...

2013 BMW F 800 GT – First Look Review

For 2013, BMW has introduced a replacement for the F 800 ST sport tourer, an more touring-ready model called the F 800 GT. Living...

2013 Yamaha FJR1300 – Road Test Review

When we broke the news that an updated Yamaha FJR1300 was on the way for 2013 in the December 2012 issue, the reader reaction...

2012 Honda VFR1200F DCT – Road Test Review

Honda held nothing back when it overhauled the esteemed VFR sport tourer for 2010. Engine technology and architecture was adapted from Honda’s MotoGP race...

2013 Yamaha FJR1300 and FZ8 – First Look Review

Just as this issue was going to print, Yamaha revealed updated FJR1300 and FZ8 models for 2013. The four-cylinder, 1,298cc FJR1300 sport tourer (we...

2013 Triumph Trophy SE – First Ride Review

Is Triumph still salty about having its Coventry factory destroyed by the German Luftwaffe during World War II? The all-new Trophy, a sport tourer...

2012 BMW R 1200 RT – Road Test Review

My, how time flies. Our last full test of a BMW R 1200 RT was back in August 2005, when you could still get...

2013 Triumph Trophy Pricing Announced

Pricing for the new Triumph Trophy was recently released. The U.S. price for the Trophy SE starts at $18,999. Dealer delivery is scheduled for...

Rider Magazine’s 2012 Motorcycle of the Year

Our 23rd Annual Award! The chilly “New Economy” seems to be thawing slightly at this writing, but it’s been a challenging 12 months since Rider...

2013 Triumph Trophy SE – First Look Review

Triumph is jumping back into the heavyweight sport-touring arena with an all-new motorcycle for 2013 wearing the familiar Trophy model name, but looking nothing...

2012 BMW K 1600 GTL vs. Honda Gold Wing GL1800 ABS | Comparison Test Review

When BMW unveiled the all-new 2012 K 1600 GTL, a high-tech, high-performance replacement for the long-running K 1200 LT, the company declared that it...

Motus Announces Production Plans, Pricing for 2013 MST and MST-R

After a year of extensive testing and development, Motus Motorcycles announced at Daytona Bike Week its 2012 production plans, including pricing, accessories, specifications, availability...

Riding Among Giants, A 2011 Kawasaki Concours 14 ABS Tour Test

Our motivations differed, but our destination was the same. Having fallen under the spell of majestic redwoods several years ago at Muir Woods National...

Ducati 1199 Panigale Unveiled in Hollywood

Fashion-forward, image-conscious Ducati has a thing for Hollywood. Its bikes have been in enough movies to earn Screen Actors Guild union cards for every...

2012 BMW K 1600 GT vs. 2011 Kawasaki Concours 14 | Comparison Test Review

photography by Kevin Wing This comparison was inevitable. After the Kawasaki Concours 14 won our last sport-touring comparison (Rider, November 2010), among the new bikes...

2012 Kawasakis – First Look Review

Even though the leaves are turning brown, the season is green…Kawasaki green. The company has pulled the covers off its new-for-2012 street models, which...

2011 Moto Guzzi Norge GT 8V – Road Test Review

photography by Kevin Wing Moto Guzzi, one of Italy’s most storied motorcycle brands, turns 90 this year, and an emblem honoring this milestone can be...

First U.S Ride: 2012 BMW K1600GTL – Road Test Review

photography by Rich Cox When upbeat reports started hitting the Interwebs from the very first evening of the BMW K 1600 GT/L world introduction in...

2012 BMW K 1600 GT and K 1600 GTL | First Ride Review

  Two years ago, at the press introduction for the 2009 BMW K 1300 GT and K 1300 S, Pieter de Waal, VP of BMW...

California Sport-Touring Loops on the Kawasaki Concours 14

story and photography by Clement Salvadori The road unrolls rapidly before me, the endless ribbon of two-lane blacktop smoothing out the hills and curves, disappearing...

2011 Triumph Sprint GT – Road Test Review

photography by Graeme Brown and Tim Keeton The Highlands of Scotland, land of woolen plaid kilts, smoky single-malt whisky and William Wallace—the painted-face warrior played...

New Six-cylinder BMWs: K 1600 GT and K 1600 GTL

Munich, Germany (July 2, 2010) - Since BMW Motorrad presented the six-cylinder Concept 6 last fall, rumors have circulated about what model might receive...

2010 Honda VFR1200F – Road Test Review

photography by Kevin Wing, the author and courtesy of Honda After nearly two decades of being a sleek thoroughbred with racing bloodlines, for 2002 uninspired...

2010 Honda NT700V ABS – Road Test Review

photography by Kevin Wing Competence. Like common sense, it’s all too uncommon. Motorcycles today, while generally reliable and well-engineered, tend to be specialized, designed to...

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