Motorcycles

One of the most magnificent and terrifying steeds in motorcycledom gets its second major overhaul for 2024. The new KTM 1390 Super Duke R gets a bigger motor, a bigger tank, semi-active suspension and a savagely alien new headlight design.

Triumph starts an "all-in" assault on the dirtbike world with the TF 250-X, a race-ready MX bike with a "class-leading power to weight ratio and the most complete specification package ever to launch into the ultra-competitive 250cc motocross market."

Bimota has a whole new design for its wacky hub-steered front end, nearly doubling the steering range, and it's celebrating this achievement with one of the strangest production motorcycles of the year: a 200-horsepower supercharged adventure bike.

Having to stop and wait for an e-moto battery to recharge can sure take the joy out of clean riding. But e-mobility multinational Yadea is looking to change that with the Kemper performance bike, which can be fast-charged to 80% in just 10 minutes.

Boutique motorcycle company Langen has unveiled a stablemate to its delectable, super-lightweight 2-Stroke. The 2025 Lightspeed rocks a hard-punching 1190cc V-twin, and hits the one horsepower per kilogram mark – at least, til you sit on it.

Electric mobility startup PNY recently motored into the EICMA 2023 trade show with a urban delivery solution called the Ponie – an electric motorcycle in two-wheel and three-wheel flavors, each rocking a gaping hole in the belly for hauling cargo.

Among other things, Niu Technologies has already brought us an electric urban motorbike, scooter and ebike. Now the Chinese mobility company has announced its first-ever electric dirt bike, the XQi3.

As fans of the movie Quadrophenia will confirm, tricked-out Vespas and Lambrettas were key components of the 1960s mod movement in the UK, but remain popular more than 50 years on. Lambretta recently previewed an electric update to the timeless classic.

Ducati has a new motorbike, and it's celebrating this fact with a series of photos and videos so flagrantly ribald and saucy they'd be pixelated out in Japan. I mean, look at them. In fact, forget the bike, can I buy some of this guy's talent?

Electric touring is officially on the menu ... Sort of. Evoke has built its 6061-GT electric motorcycle around the biggest battery pack ever offered in a production bike: a staggering 30-kWh monster offering more than 600 km (370 miles) of range.

According to the UN, there are about 258 million widows in the world. Tomasin Racing feels these are rookie numbers, so it's making a kit that turns a standard Honda CRF 450 into a certified widow production facility with a 500cc 2-stroke engine.

Until relatively recently, riders looking to kick up dirt would have been accompanied by the ear-splitting clatter of a two-stroke. Electric motos offer a cleaner and quieter alternative, and Flux Performance is currently working on a new option.

Back in the good old days, you needed skills to ride a Suzuki up the stairs, and people would look at you like a lunatic. On the Suzuki MOQBA quadruped horsiecycle, though, no skills are required, and people are more likely to look at you with pity.

Volcon has upgraded its chunky-wheeled Grunt electric farm bike launched in 2020 with improved suspension and seating for better bump absorption, a motor and battery change, and a Gates Carbon Belt drive for stealthier off-road adventuring.

One of the strangest concept bikes in all of motorcycledom has been reworked for 2023. Yamaha has unveiled a second version of its futuristic Motoroid concept, complete with a twisting swingarm, AI facial recognition, and the ability to self-balance.