HomeTypeTouring Motorcycle Reviews

Touring Motorcycle Reviews

2024 Honda Gold Wing, Rebel, and NC750X Returning Models 

Honda has announced six models returning for 2024, including the Gold Wing family, the Fury, the Rebel family, and the adventure NC750X. These returning...

2024 Suzuki V-Strom 800, 800 Touring Review | First Look

Suzuki Motor USA announced two new V-Strom 800 models. The 2024 Suzuki V-Strom 800 and 800 Touring models are based on the engine and...

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,...

2023 Harley-Davidson CVO Street Glide and Road Glide Review | First Ride 

It’s a momentous event when Harley-Davidson reinvents iconic models like the Road Glide and the Street Glide, the most popular motorcycles on American roads....

BMW Announces New Intelligent Emergency Call Feature, 2024 Motorcycle Lineup

BMW Motorrad has announced the first updates for model year 2024. BMW models receive new color options, and BMW has also rearranged some of...

2024 Motorcycle Buyers Guide: New Street Models

This 2024 motorcycle buyers guide highlights new or significantly updated street-legal models available in the U.S. As with previous buyers guides, we will also...

2023 Harley-Davidson CVO Street Glide, CVO Road Glide Revealed

Harley-Davidson has revealed full information about the new models in its premium CVO line, which were first teased in April. The 2023 Harley-Davidson CVO...

2024 BMW R 18 Roctane | First Look Review

BMW Motorrad has announced details on the 2024 BMW R 18 Roctane, the fifth member of the R 18 family and a bike the...

2023 Harley-Davidson CVO Street Glide and CVO Road Glide | First Look Review

Big news out of Harley-Davidson today with the release of two new Harley-Davidson CVO models that feature significant styling updates for the popular Street...

2023 Indian Pursuit Elite and Chieftain Elite | First Look Review

Following the announcement last November of the 2023 Challenger Elite, Indian Motorcycle recently announced the release of the new Indian Pursuit Elite and the...

Harley-Davidson Announces 120th Anniversary Editions and Other 2023 Models

Harley-Davidson kicked off its yearlong 120th anniversary celebration with the announcement of the first release of new models in the 2023 Harley-Davidson motorcycle lineup....

Suzuki Announces More Returning 2023 Models

Suzuki has announced additional models to its 2023 product line, including the sport-touring Suzuki GSX-S1000GT/GT+ models, plus three Boulevard models: the M109R B.O.S.S. muscle...

2023 Royal Enfield Super Meteor 650 | First Look Review 

At the EICMA show this week in Milan, Italy, Royal Enfield unveiled a new tourer: The Super Meteor 650. Following in the tradition of...

2023 Honda Rebel 1100T DCT and Returning Models | First Look Review

The 2023 Honda lineup is in, including 11 returning models from five categories and the new “bagger” Rebel 1100 trim level.  In 2023, we’ll see...

2023 Indian Motorcycle Lineup | First Look Review

Indian Motorcycles has announced updates to its 2023 lineup, including a new FTR model and other FTR revisions, plus details about the premium Challenger...

Honda Announces 2023 Gold Wing Family

Despite concerns by some that Honda would be discontinuing its popular flagship Gold Wing motorcycle – perhaps precipitated by the announcement in July that...

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...

2023 Motorcycle Buyers Guide: New Street Models

This 2023 motorcycle buyers guide highlights new or significantly updated street-legal models available in the U.S. We will continually update the guide as new...

Kawasaki Announces More 2023 Returning Models

Kawasaki announced the return of several sport, retro sport, naked, cruiser, adventure touring, and dual-sport models to its motorcycle lineup. These 2023 motorcycles are...

2022 BMW K 1600 GTL | Road Test Review

It has been four decades since BMW introduced the K 100, its first motorcycle powered by a liquid-cooled in-line 4-cylinder engine. Known as the...

2022 Indian Challenger Elite and Chieftain Elite | First Look Review

Since its debut in 2017, Indian’s Elite program has offered the most premium and feature-packed versions of its bagger and touring models, such as...

2022 Indian Pursuit Limited | Road Test Review

Indian Motorcycle, now in its ninth model year since being relaunched under Polaris ownership, continues to expand its range of American-made V-Twins. Less beholden...

2022 Indian Pursuit Limited and Dark Horse | First Look Review

Indian Motorcycle defied the bagger status quo when it released the liquid-cooled Challenger in 2020, which won Rider's Motorcycle of the Year award. The...

2022 Indian Motorcycle Lineup | First Look Review

Indian came out of the gate early last year with an all-new Chief platform and a revised FTR lineup for the 2022 model year....

2022 Harley-Davidson Lineup | First Look Review

It’s all hands on deck at Harley-Davidson as the brand works toward its World Premiere Event on January 26, 2022. While The Motor Company...

2022 BMW R 18 Transcontinental | Road Test Review

BMW has long been committed to designing and building motorcycles for travel, and the all-new 2022 BMW R 18 Transcontinental continues that tradition in...

2022 BMW K 1600 Lineup | First Look Review

There are four models in BMW’s K 1600 lineup – the K 1600 GT sport-tourer, the K 1600 GTL luxury sport-tourer, the K 1600...

Indian Announces 2022 Jack Daniel’s Limited Edition Challenger Dark Horse

Indian Motorcycle, America’s first motorcycle company, and Jack Daniel’s, America’s first registered distillery, along with Klock Werks Kustom Cycles, have partnered to create the...

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...

2022 BMW R 18 B and R 18 Transcontinental | Top 10 Review

Last year, amid a global pandemic, BMW Motorrad introduced a motorcycle that is a very big deal for the company. With the introduction of...

News & Reviews