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2025 Motorcycle of the Year

There’s never been a better time to be a motorcyclist. We are spoiled for choice these days with a wide variety of models produced...

2024 Motorcycle of the Year

In Rider Rewind, a special section in 2024 issues that celebrates moments in Rider’s 50-year history, we showcased Motorcycles of the Year for 1990-2006...

2023 Motorcycle of the Year

If Rider’s Motorcycle of the Year, now in its 34th year, were a person, it would have graduated from college or completed military service,...

2022 Motorcycle of the Year

For the past 32 years, Rider has selected a Motorcycle of the Year. With the exception of two years when we made a People’s...

Rider’s 2021 Motorcycle of the Year

Our first Motorcycle of the Year was awarded to the 1990 BMW K1, and for the past 31 years we’ve limited contenders to current...

Rider Magazine’s 2020 Motorcycle of the Year

No doubt the year 2020 is primarily going to be remembered for a nasty pandemic, civil unrest and a tumultuous election (and to think...

Rider Magazine’s 2019 Motorcycle of the Year

It’s seldom (if ever) easy to pick a Motorcycle of the Year…not that anyone ever feels sorry for us and our “but we had...

Rider Magazine’s 2018 Motorcycle of the Year

The 2018 motorcycle model year started out strong with the launch of the Yamaha Star Venture in June 2017 at the big Americade rally...

Rider Magazine’s 2017 Motorcycle of the Year

It’s hard to believe, but if you count the bikes that are significantly changed, for the 2017 model year the world’s major motorcycle manufacturers...

25 Best Motorcycles of the Past 25 Years

Rider has selected a Motorcycle of the Year annually since 1990—27 bikes in all. Here we present our 25 Motorcycles of the Year for...

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....

Rider Magazine’s 2015 Motorcycle of the Year

In the April 2015 issue we listed 60 all-new or significantly changed 2015 model-year motorcycles eligible for consideration as Rider’s 2015 Motorcycle of the...

2013 People’s Choice Motorcycle of the Year Winner

This year, Rider magazine decided to put its Motorcycle of the Year title in our reader's hands by allowing you to pick the winner...

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...

Rider Magazine’s 2011 Motorcycle of the Year

In our May issue—a whopping 156-page mailbox-filler, our largest in 30 years—we listed 32 all-new or significantly changed 2011 model-year motorcycles eligible for consideration...

Rider Magazine 2010 Motorcycle of the Year: Honda VFR1200F

We would normally include in the 2010 judging any prior-year models that didn’t make it to us for testing in time for the 2009...

Rider Magazine’s 2008 Motorcycle of the Year and Best of Class

The new bikes for the 2008 model year have all been revealed, and it's time once again to name our three Best-of-Class winners. From...

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