Motorcycles

Motorcycle racers crash, right? Lowside, highside, all end in smashed bikes and tumbling riders. Well, not always. Moto2 rider Bo Bensnyder performs a miraculous save in free practice for the Moto2 race in Misano, then calmly rides into the pits!

With the long-anticipated announcement that Darryn Binder will move to MotoGP in 2022, that brings the number of family pairings on the grid to three.

The shock announcement that Ducati will become the supplier of motorcycles for the MotoE race series after Energica pulls out at the end of 2022

This video compilation might start slowly but, boy, does the action ramp up as you watch.

Adventure-tourers are all the rage at the moment and Honda has entered the fray with a road-biased version of its Africa Twin. Full details have just been released and here they are!

Have two wheels: will race. It doesn’t matter what the surface - tar, sand, mud - people have raced across it. Add in something that’s near vertical that you might struggle to walk up it and it attracts a different breed of madman.

’City Adventure’ concept turned into the X-ADV, with the 750cc engine from the NC750. It hasn’t made it to the U.S. but the ADV150 did. Now, the ADV300 is looking likely to land on American soil.

The trouble with a production bike, even a limited-number production bike, is that you’re always in danger of seeing another one exactly the same. But how about if you take that production bike and do something completely different with it?

Many of the major players offer a pure-D racetrack hypersport for the public’s consumption, and for Kawasaki, that honor falls to the freshly updated Ninja H2 R. The H2 R brings to the table the best Kawi has to offer along with top-flight aerodynamics and a supercharged engine on top of a full electronics suite making it a threat on the track right out of the box. That’s about the only place it’s a threat though, since the H2 R is far too awesome to be street legal, and as a track-only bike, it wastes not an ounce on any silly old mirrors, headlights, or turn signals. Carbon-fiber components complete the package with their own brand of lightweight strength.

Motorcycling, to many people, is dangerous and anti-social. But now, a new survey has shown that it’s not nearly as dangerous as riding a horse or skiing. Is it time to say, ’we told you so,’ to the insurance companies?

Triumph saying that details of a new range of 200-750cc bikes developed in conjunction with Indian company Bajaj for global sale will be announced soon. So, this is a teaser of a teaser....!

Kawasaki gave its Ninja 650 supersport a facelift ahead of MY2020 with aggressive new lines. Safety and visibility were increased through LED technology, and instrumentation moves into the 21st century with a TFT display to deliver the metrics. New tires and new networking technology round out the package along with the engine performance and handling that made the last generation a hit.

Kawasaki took the next step in the struggle to find that perfect balance between displacement, performance, and affordability with the new-in-2018 Ninja 400. This ride delivers the aggressive styling that you expect from the Ninja family with a host of improvements over the previous generation. More power, less weight, and a mature presentation should hold the new Ninja in good stead in the highly-competitive small-displacement sportbike market that serves as the main battlefield in the contest to instill some brand loyalty in the increasingly important new buyer base.

The European Parliament is discussing sweeping legislation to make the roads safer and cut deaths by 2030. Would automatic control of how fast we ride in certain situations be a step too far or do we need that restriction?

There is widespread resistance to Chinese motorcycles in the U.S. but, with prices of once-hated-but-now-accepted Japanese motorcycles increasing, is this the right time for the Chinese brands to be given a second chance?