High Plains Driftin’ Video Ducati Diavel. Dry lake bed. Steel shoe. Action!
Sometimes you just need to push the boundaries. Like Ducati did with its power cruiser, the Diavel. So… [more]
Corsa Motoclassica/AHRMA 2013 Classic motorcycles and SoCal’s oldest road course—Willow Springs—were meant for each other.
How could I not go to the 18th annual Corsa Motoclassica/AHRMA race at Willow Springs? The track where… [more]
2014 Honda CTX700/CTX700N – First Ride Big Red’s New-Think standard.
Honda is taking the bull by the horns and doing all it can to ensure motorcycling’s future. Over the… [more]
2014 Honda Grom 125 – First Look Honda makes it official and releases renamed MSX125 in the U.S.
As expected, American Honda announced that the Taiwan-built, fuel-injected, 125cc Grom will be for sale… [more]
Borile B450 Scrambler – First Look Ducati may not build a 450 Scrambler anymore. But Umberto Borile does.
Umberto Borile, who gave life to this B450 Scrambler, exemplifies the passionate and creative Italian,… [more]
2014 Honda MSX125 – First Look You meet the nicest kids … in rush-hour traffic?
Rolling burnouts in a parking garage? Dirt-track slides through construction zones? Wheelies that would… [more]
2013 Quail Motorcycle Gathering: So Many Bikes, So Little Time Now five years old, The Quail Motorcycle Gathering is arguably America’s best bike show. But you have to move fast to see it all.
It is just eight acres, that neatly mown lawn by the Quail Lodge clubhouse in Carmel, California. You… [more]
2013 Honda CBR600RR – First Ride Evolution of one of the best, makes the CBR even better.
Back in 2006, when Honda was selling roughly 20,000 CBR600RRs in the U.S. each year, fast-paced development… [more]
2013 Harley-Davidson Sportster Iron 883 Special Edition S – First Look Sorry, this cool, American-made V-Twin is only available in Italy.
The Italian motorcycle market has grown 50 percent leaner over the past 12 months, bikes having been… [more]
Latest Posts
Ben Bostrom signs with Jordan Suzuki
Ben Bostrom will compete in the 2011 AMA Pro American SuperBike Championship on a Suzuki GSX-R1000 for Michael Jordan Motorsports. This past season, Bostrom, 36, won one race, had eight podium placings and finished fifth overall racing in the same class on a Pat Clark Motorsports-prepared Yamaha YZF-R1. “Signing Ben Bostrom is another incredible step [...]
2011 KTM RC8R – First Look Austria updates its V-Twin-powered entry in the superbike wars.
KTM continues to hone the 1195cc (105.0 x 69.0mm), dohc, four-valve-per-cylinder, 75-degree V-Twin that powers the new RC8R—the hottest of the superbike models based on this compact and lightweight engine. The thorough re-design is said to help it produce 175 hp at 10,250 rpm, and 93.7 ft.-lb. at 8000 rpm. KTM claims a nice compromise [...]
The Show Is Over: EICMA 2010 Wrap Up – Motorcycle Show Themes from the Milan Motorcycle Show.
The Milan motorcycle show EICMA convincingly remains the most important place to show and to introduce new models in the industry. Sprawling across nearly a dozen buildings and 1.8 million square feet in the enormous Fiera Milano Convention Center, almost anyone who wants to be a player in the world’s motorcycle, scooter and accessory market [...]
MotoGP 09-10 – Product Evaluation So real it almost takes the fun out of MotoGP. But not quite.
It definitely wasn’t easy to put down the controller to write this review, but in the end we pushed aside the 18 Mountain Dew empties, gazed once more at our smoking Xbox and got to work. MotoGP 09/10 is the third MotoGP game published by Capcom and the first from developer Monumental Games. The big [...]
Slik Designs Extendze Mirrors – Product Evaluation The ins and outs of knowing what’s behind.
If you ride a sportbike, you probably know more about your armpits and elbows than you care to admit. That’s because the mirrors on most sport machines are tucked in so closely that unless you twist your upper body out of the way like a contortionist, all you see in the mirrors are the outer [...]
Cycle World Special Features
High Plains Driftin’ Video Ducati Diavel. Dry lake bed. Steel shoe. Action!
Sometimes you just need to push the boundaries. Like Ducati did with its power cruiser, the Diavel. So we took a Diavel Cromo the desert, and in the best spaghetti Western tradition, let the horse run free. We hope you like the ride. More Ducati Diavel Content: » 2013 Ducati Diavel Buyer’s Guide » [...]
We Have A Winner! One of our subscribers has won the Cycle World/Ride for Kids Honda CBR1000RR.
John Bretz—a Cycle World subscriber from Rockford, Indiana, who owns a couple of “slow and comfortable” Harleys—decided to buy five raffle tickets online after reading about the CW/Ride for Kids custom Honda in the pages of our magazine. Turned out to be the best $20 he ever spent, as this owner of a small farm [...]
Ten Things I Wish The Motorcycle Manufacturers Would Do How to make the world of motorcycling a better place to live and ride.
1. Put angled valve stems on wheels, especially fronts fitted with two big brake rotors. Unless you’re a left-handed spider monkey, reaching straight stems with most conventional tire gauges is a bitch. 2. Design seats that better fit the shapes of human butts. There is no excuse for a seat that makes your rear end [...]
MV Agusta’s Young Boss Two years after the death of his father, Giovanni Castiglioni has put MV Agusta on the right path.
Still weathering its roughest crisis in more than 40 years, today’s motorcycle market is no smooth sea, but MV Agusta is one of the few companies that delivered a double-digit sales increase (38 percent) in the first quarter of 2013 over the same period one year before—and 2012 was a very good year, with sales [...]
New Bikes
Borile B450 Scrambler – First Look Ducati may not build a 450 Scrambler anymore. But Umberto Borile does.
Umberto Borile, who gave life to this B450 Scrambler, … [Read More...]
2013 Honda CBR600RR – First Ride Evolution of one of the best, makes the CBR even better.
Back in 2006, when Honda was selling roughly 20,000 … [Read More...]
2013 Harley-Davidson Sportster Iron 883 Special Edition S – First Look Sorry, this cool, American-made V-Twin is only available in Italy.
The Italian motorcycle market has grown 50 percent leaner … [Read More...]
AVA Velocity Works 250 Swift – First Look Los Angeles custom-bike maker inspired by Grand Prix racers.
Industrial designer Adrian Van Anz says his very first … [Read More...]
Gear and Products
New Ideas: Nelson-Rigg Survivor Edition Dry Bags
Looking for a lower-priced alternative to big-bucks hard … [Read More...]
Puig Kawasaki Versys 1000 Touring Screen
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Motorcycle News
Team Cycle World Attack Performance Yoshimura Suzuki AMA Pro American SuperBike Four-time AMA national champ Eric Bostrom will race Team CW GSX-R1000.
Current AMA Pro Racing American SuperBike rules were instituted under the premise of establishing parity and reducing costs. Despite the political firestorm that engulfed nearly every aspect of the series last season, the changes appeared to work: No fewer than three riders—series champ Mat Mladin, Josh Hayes and Larry Pegram—scored multiple wins. All three, however, [...]
Alpinestars Reveals Tech Air Race Wireless Electronic Airbag System An airbag for your leather racing suit?
Alpinestars is the latest Italian protective apparel maker to develop a wireless airbag for motorcyclists. “Tech Air Race” inflates two bags located around the shoulders of the wearer in just .05 of a second. The bags remain fully inflated for 5 seconds and deflate completely in 25. The patented “dual-charge” design automatically re-arms itself and [...]
Aprilia RSV4 Biaggi Replica – First Look 200 horsepower and race-ready.
The 2010 World Superbike Championship has proved that the Aprilia RSV4 has the potential to win the title, especially in the hands of a very capable Max Biaggi. Aprilia has developed a very special edition to commemorate Biaggi’s multiple victories this season (four so far, after his two wins at Monza). The bike was created [...]
Quail Motorcycle Gathering Doubles Down in 2010 Motorcycles take to the grass at the Quail Lodge in Carmel Valley, California.
Golf and motorcycling don’t have much in common. One is slow-paced, the other fast. But they’ve come together on the greens at Pebble Beach, the Ritz-Carlton at Half-Moon Bay and, this last weekend, at Quail Lodge in Carmel Valley, California. Bikes look good on grass. And the best grass in the world grows on golf [...]
