motorcycle review

Adventure, Italian-Style
Big on power, design and long-distance comfort. Ducati recently launched the latest Multistrada in the town of Gubbio, Italy. The mountains surrounding this...
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Going the Distance with the GSX-S1000 GX
A long-term test ride of Suzuki’s newest Sport Touring machine. Maybe you’ve heard of Nick Sanders, who rode his sport bike (a Yamaha R1) around the world, or Ed March who did the same (albeit...
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More Sport Than Adventure
Honda has made changes to the newest Africa Twin Adventure Sports to enhance its cornering prowess Honda’s Africa Twin has always been the most committed of big-bore Japanese adventure bikes....
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Elegant Roadster
The bike that continues to celebrate 100 years of motorcycle production. Recently, in the south of Spain, I rode the newest generation of the R nineT, the R12 nineT, through the Andalusian mountains....
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Mid-Sized Fun
An entry-level sport bike to grow in to. I still remember when I rode my first Ninja. Although it was only a 250 cc, I felt like the next Valentino Rossi whipping through the corners. I expect that...
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Classic Styling & Affordable
An ideal small-displacement bike that looks good and won’t break the bank. Triumph has introduced two all-new 400 models that are highly desirable, not only for their attractive retro styling, but...
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This Hooligan Gets An Upgrade
It can cruise around town, but it prefers to assault back roads with technical aggression. Thirty years ago, KTM introduced the first Duke model. Supermotard, now known as Supermoto, was relatively...
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Built for Real-World Use
Both models of Scrambler 1200 shine no matter where you point the front wheel. The Triumph Scrambler 1200 is in a class of its own. It’s a big street bike that has some serious off-road capability....
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Setting the New Standard
Competence on the street and the track. The 2024 GSX-8R is the latest model to be built around the new parallel-twin engine that Suzuki introduced last year in the V-Strom 800DE adventure bike and...
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Practical Corner Carver
A superbike for the adventure set. So, you’ve outgrown your CBR600RR. Perhaps it was a GSX-R600. Maybe Team Green’s 636. Hell, it could even have been a R6, though Yamaha hasn’t built a...
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Austrian Rocket
The “monster” of adventure bikes needs space to stretch its legs. The biggest anomaly about KTM — at least, the biggest anomaly other than “Why orange” — is how they have built a...
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Bavarian Grand Tourer
There’s just something about a six-pack symphony of pistons on the open road. Motorcycling is all about minimalism. Or at least we like to pretend it is. Of course, if that were really true, we’d...
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