Like its ain’t-broke-don’t-fix-it KLR650 dual-sport, Kawasaki produced the Ninja 250 for more than two decades before giving it a major overhaul for 2008. Styling...
Today’s Triumph Speed Triple is light years ahead of the original sport standard introduced in 1994, never mind the historic 1938 Triumph Speed Twin...
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...
A new lighter-weight Triumph Street Triple and Street Triple R were revealed at the Intermot Show in Cologne, Germany, today. The 2013 motorcycles have...
Before a burst of technology and specialization in the mid 1980s commenced sharpening our motorcycles into sportbikes, long-distance luxury tourers and cruisers, a street...
Liter-bike horsepower wars aren't over, but they're past the shock-and-awe phase of the campaign. With peak rear-wheel figures exceeding 150, sometimes by a considerable...
After debuting its crossplane crankshaft in 2009, Yamaha's 2012 update of the YZF-R1 has focused on refinement, adding traction control, updating the look and...
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...
Consecutive AMA American Superbike Championships in 2010 and 2011, plus a World Superbike Championship in 2009, give the 998cc in-line four Yamaha YZF-R1 sportbike...
Ducati's first new-bike entry for 2012 is the Streetfighter 848, a brand-new addition to the Italian manufacturer’s naked sportbike family. Details are few so...
photography by Kevin Wing and Riles & Nelson
Motorcycle enthusiasts love all-new, never-before-seen models like cats love catnip. We get excited, even silly, about their...
photography by Kevin Wing
Many new bikes are awash in technical innovations. Today you can buy a motorcycle with keyless ignition that—by pressing a button—will...
photography by Kevin Wing
Forget everything you thought you knew about 250 singles. Honda’s 2011 CBR250R has shredded the rulebook, packing brainloads of fresh thinking...
Gathered around the shiny, all-knowing orb in Rider’s soundproof think tank, our hands lightly clasped, minds melded into an awesome intellectual force capable of...
photography by Rich Cox
Whenever I cram too many alphanumeric motorcycle models into a conversation, my girlfriend, Carrie, rolls her eyes and says, “It’s all...
photography by Adam Campbell
Perhaps because of our Puritanical roots, naked bikes aren’t terribly popular here in the United States. Europeans love ’em, whether they...
