Whizbang technology from Yamaha’s M1 MotoGP racebike trickled down to the masses in 2009 when the R1 sportbike became the first production motorcycle to...
Ducati's Monsters, or Mostri, are the Italian maker's naked sport-standards with L-twin engines. In the USA for 2008, they range from the air-cooled 695...
Middleweight sportbike development has been a fiercely competitive game of one-upmanship among the Japanese Big Four. Dictated in part by the rules of supersport...
photography by Scott Hirko
Test motorcycles come and go here frequently, except certain models we have trouble letting go. Our shop will only hold so...
In my past life I was a scientist-specifically, a demographer who studied trends in human mortality (depressing, I know). Although my number-crunching days are...
The Aprilia Shiver is Aprilia's first middleweight sportbike, a product of its plant in Noale, Italy. This factory has already served as the birthplace...
Motorcycles are amazing. Can you imagine, in the highly competitive world of automobiles, that a company could bring out a particular model and continue...
If there's one thing Kawasaki isn't suffering from, it's an identity crisis, especially in the sportbike segment. But that wasn't always the case. A...
Los Angeles has the Rock Store; Berlin has Spinner-Brücke, a biergarten that has been a motorcycle hangout for 50 years. Harley traditionalists in America...