Motorcycle Ratings and Reviews
Evidently, there’s a standard method of creating a naked sportbike and then there’s the Italian way. Most manufacturers have done it by producing minimalistic, significantly detuned sportbikes that are just as well-suited to urban commuting as they are to the occasional weekend romp. But the original Tuono, introduced a decade [...]
Photography by Jeff Allen History will show that Cycle World’s first ride on Kawasaki’s ZX-14R happened at a dragstrip. Think back to the H1 and Z1 of the 1970s, Team Green’s first pacesetters, for the pattern this company has developed: big horsepower, industry-leading acceleration, physics-defying speed. The two-stroke H1 Mach [...]
If you didn’t see this one coming, you haven’t been paying attention. After winning the 2010 MX1 World Motocross Championship against 450cc machines with its 350 SX-F, KTM was sure to announce an off-road version of the same bike. This is, after all, what KTM does so well: get as [...]
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Italian passion for motorsport is synonymous with the stunning performance, soul-stirring sound and seductive, liquid-red styling inherent to a long bloodline of championship-winning Ducati sportbikes. Yesterday’s triumph, however, is just that, and the bigger the trophy, the more dust it tends to attract. Ongoing product evolution is what maintains a [...]
All motorcyclists have a fantasy collection assembled in the dream garage that lives in their heads. Mine would include a 1000cc sportbike, a 250cc four-stroke MXer, a 450cc dual-sport, a 300cc two-stroke enduro and something with bags that can be ridden two-up all day. Unfortunately, this isn’t possible for most [...]
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Suzuki hasn’t had a serious off-road bike since the RMX250 two-stroke, last offered in 1998. But the company’s days of selling only mild-mannered off-roaders are over, as there is nothing soft about the new-for-2010 RMX450Z. It rocks to the same beat as the fuel-injected RM-Z450 motocrosser from which it was [...]
It was an odd thing to have cross my mind the first time I thumbed the starter button on this2010 VFR1200F, the long-awaited follow-up to theprevious Interceptor. But as the lightly syncopated combustion rhythm of the 76-degree V-Four with 28-degree-offset crankpins made its flat, almost-360-degree-crank sound—a droning, distant echo of [...]
Electric vehicles are a polarizing subject, rife with environmental, political and technical whoop-de-doos. Advocates insist electricity is the wave of the future for transportation, claiming enhanced performance, reduced emissions and lower maintenance. Opponents argue that EVs are costly, short on range and will require a new refueling infrastructure. To this [...]
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