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2017 BMW R nineT Racer vs. Triumph Thruxton | Comparison Review

Motorcycles allow us to indulge our appetite for nostalgia like few other vehicles. Riding a motorcycle can transport us back to younger, more carefree...

Rider’s Guide to New/Updated Street Motorcycles for 2018

This handy guide includes all new or significantly updated street-legal motorcycles for the 2018 model year (we snuck in a few early-release 2019 models...

Video Review | 2017 Triumph Bonneville Bobber

While most manufacturers simply take an existing model, shorten the fenders, put a new handlebar and a solo seat on it, and maybe give...

2017 Triumph Street Triple RS | First Ride Review

Within Triumph’s robust motorcycle lineup, no fewer than eight models have one or more of the following four words in their name: Speed, Street,...

2017 Triumph Street Cup | First Ride Review

You may have heard, but retro styled, classic bikes are “in” right now, and few, if any, manufacturers do retro better than Triumph. The...

2017 Triumph Street Scrambler | First Ride Review

Scramblers were born in the 1960s, and were essentially street bikes that had been modified for dirt racing and general off-road hooliganism. As the...

2017 Triumph Street Triple S, R and RS – First Look

Good things come in threes: the Three Stooges, the Three Little Pigs, the number of times you have to say "Beetlejuice" in order to...

Rider’s Guide to New/Updated Street Motorcycles for 2017

Talk about an embarrassment of riches! More than 100 street motorcycles are all-new or significantly updated for the 2017 model year. This bumper crop...

2017 Triumph Bonneville Bobber | First Ride Review

Bobbers are quite possibly the original performance custom motorcycles. Riders have been stripping extraneous parts and “bobbing” fenders since knickerbockers and straw hats were...

10 Coolest Motorcycles for 2017

The 2017 model year will go down as one of the most exciting in motorcycle history. Sneak peeks of 2017 models started in late...

2017 Triumph Street Scrambler | First Look Review

It was a Triumph that Steve McQueen so famously rode in the 1964 International Six Days Trial, and for today's scrambler-style enthusiasts, Triumph’s latest...

Comparison Review: 2016 BMW R nineT vs. 2016 Triumph Bonneville T120 Black

Almost as quickly as the technology is developed, motorcycle manufacturers are endowing many of their sport, touring and adventure motorcycles with beneficial but often...

2017 Triumph Bonneville T100 Black | First Ride Review

Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Bob Dylan, Keith Richards. Cool, cooler, badass, rebel, rock ‘n’ roller. And they all rode Triumph Bonnevilles. Whether these...

2017 Triumph Bonneville Bobber | First Look Review

At the Intermot motorcycle show in Germany earlier this month, Triumph unveiled three new Bonneville models—the Bonneville T100, Bonneville T100 Black and Street Cup—which...

2017 Triumph Street Cup | First Look Review

When Triumph completely redesigned its Bonneville lineup last year, it added liquid cooling its iconic parallel-twin engine platform and offered it in three Euro4-compliant...

2017 Triumph Bonneville T100 and T100 Black | First Look Review

Triumph rolled out an all-new Bonneville lineup for 2016, with five models and three variants of its iconic parallel-twin engine, all of which featured...

Rider Comparo – 2016 Honda VFR1200X vs. 2016 Triumph Tiger Explorer XRt vs. 2016 Yamaha Super Ténéré

Over the past decade, adventure tourers have matured into a diverse segment of the motorcycle market. These days you can buy one or more...

The 39 Best New Bikes for Smaller Riders (and Budgets)

UPDATE (3/13/2018): Our list of best new bikes for smaller riders and budgets continues to grow. We're way beyond 39 now, but like we...

Rider Magazine’s 2016 Motorcycle of the Year

Despite a shaky global economy, for the 2016 model year the world’s motorcycle manufacturers added more than 70 new models to the U.S. market....

2016 Triumph Street Twin | Road Test Review

In the 1960s and ’70s, Triumph sold more motorcycles in the U.S. than in the rest of the world combined. A great many of those bikes...

2016 Triumph Thruxton R | First Ride Review

Read our 2016 Triumph Bonneville T120 Black review About the Thruxton: Take everything you just read about the T120, and toss it out the window....

2016 Triumph Bonneville T120 Black – First Ride Review

Hustling the new 2016 Triumph T120 through blustery ocean breezes somewhere east of Cabo da Roca—the westernmost point of continental Europe—I had to admit:...

2016 Triumph Tiger Explorer XCa | First Ride Review

Today’s adventure-touring segment already offers a dizzying selection, to which Triumph now adds a whole family of next-generation 2016 Tiger Explorers. Three focus on...

2016 Triumph Tiger Sport – Not (Yet) for U.S. Consumption

The Tiger name has a long history at Triumph, with early models dating back to the 1930s. In the modern Hinckley era, Tigers have...

2016 Triumph Speed Triple R | First Ride Review

Triumph’s Speed Triple has always been more Sex Pistols than Rolling Stones, more rebellious punk rock than mainstream rock-’n’-roll, a streetfighter that has been...

2016 Triumph Street Twin | First Ride Review

Photography by Alessio Barbanti and Matteo Cavadini At Milan’s EICMA Show last November (2015), Triumph presented five new parallel-twin motorcycles powered by all-new liquid-cooled engines—one...

Interview: Stuart Wood, Triumph’s Head of Engineering

John Bloor himself aside, Triumph’s head of engineering Stuart Wood, 51, is almost certainly its longest serving employee, a 28-year company veteran who joined...

Triumph Announces U.S. Pricing for New Bonneville Models

Triumph Motorcycles announced the pricing of the new Bonneville range during the global Street Twin press ride on Tuesday. The five new models—Street Twin,...

Triumph Expands Tiger Explorer Line to Six Models for 2016

Triumph’s full-size Tiger Explorer adventure bike line has been updated for 2016, with six models to choose from, three geared toward street riding (XR,...

Triumph Revamps Bonneville Lineup for 2016

Triumph has announced an all-new Bonneville lineup for 2016, with five models: the new Street Twin, the Bonneville T120 and Bonneville T120 Black, and...

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