One of the best places to grab a look at the coming year of bikes is the California Air Resources...
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Amanda Quick spends her time managing her business, digging into old bike manuals and prepping for Canada's warmer seasons. Her love for bikes has her head stuck in the more futuristic predictions of the Powersports industry, seconded only by her love for cello and obsession with effective communications.
Articulate nerd with a terrible sleep schedule and a dotty love for horsepower.
Back in 2022, ARCH Motorcycle put together a contest with their partner, Öhlins Racing AB – all in the name...
On top of being on the board for a swappable electric battery system, playing a key role in the cutting-edge hydrogen consortium “HySE,” and contributing to the integration of 30,000 electric fast-chargers to America starting in 2024, Big Red’s also trying to put the world of ICE bikes and electric...
Team Green’s got a birthday coming up – and seeing as this September is officially 70 years with Kawasaki (on...
The guys that gave us “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning” (2023) have just shaped up a new action thriller for Netflix-ers...
Ever since Suzuki’s new adventure-ready V-Strom 800DE / Adventure (aptly nicknamed the “P-Strom”) popped into existence at EICMA 2022, we’ve been wondering if the Japanese motorcycle marque has any inclination to set upon new cycles for the streets. Based on a recent filing with the California Air Resources Board (CARB),...
Sometimes, it’s worth it to harken back to an era where the only measure of time was the local opinion...
On this grand day of record-breakers, we shine a well-earned spotlight on Aleix Espargaró, Aprilia’s #1 and the winner of...
“You live more in five minutes on a bike like this going flat out than some people live in a lifetime.” Wise words from a man who, if the above equation is right, has lived many lifetimes aboard his speed demons of choice. Burt Munro is more than an iconic...
Akrapovič has a new slip-on exhaust for the fun, infectious Yamaha YZF-R3/MT-03 duo! As an avid owner of an R3,...
https://youtu.be/0dDa8869-FY Today, Royal Enfield has officially lifted the covers in their Custom Super Meteor 650, a bike whose debut was...
On the heels of Yamaha’s sales successes comes Big Red, happy as a clam with profit up +77% for Q2 of this FY2023. According to MBT, Q1 of Honda’s fiscal year saw ¥363 billion ($2.5 billion USD) in profit, with sales upping to ¥4.6 trillion ($32 billion USD). The healthy +21%...
Yamaha has just given us a look at the results for the first half of their FY2023 – and they’ve...
In a world where electric transport is overly saturated, it pays to be able to play to the industry’s highs...
Moto Morini’s General Manager has imparted to Moto.it that they’re working on a new V-Twin platform – and it’s going to be at EICMA 2023. This year, the Milanese motorcycle marque is primed to toss us a trifecta of tantalizing novelties: First, A large-and-in-charge ADV bike; second, a middleweight unit...
As a newsie gal, I have a specific routine: Work out, grab a coffee on the way to the office,...
MV Agusta’s added a tantalizing layer of incentive to the purchase of one of their 2023 models; as of July...
Our favorite Noale-based bike brand has been tinkering around with carbon fiber for the chassis situ of their MotoGP RS-GP, re-animating Ducati’s experiments of over a decade ago. According to Mat Oxley’s Twitter post, Lorenzo Savadori (Aprilia’s test rider) took the thing for a spin at Misano, with the bike’s...
While Kawasaki readies their electric “Ninja e-1” and “Z e-1” duo for later this year (EICMA, presumably), Verge revels in...
The sun is out, Q3 is in full swing, and Italian Volt has officially confirmed that they will be at...
And, just like that, Kawasaki’s brought their iconic Ninja ZX-10R and Z900 back for the new model year, just in time for August’s moto markets! For this season, we’re told by Kawasaki that the ZX-10R sports new, integrated winglets (got to keep up with “fast fashion”), as well as the neat...
Ducati’s not even into Episode 2 of their 2024 World Première, and they’ve already incorporated a hoot of a time...
Remember when the European Government approved of “TEN-T,” a fast-charging network set to be installed along the country’s highways by...
When you’re a noted techy giant like BMW Group, getting ahead of the game means approaching from more than one angle of advantage; in this case, the advantage is a partnership that will grant BMW access to the world’s highest-performing quantum computer. In plain French, BMW’s betting that “harder, better,...
Kawasaki’s officially on the move, filing homologation papers for her two electric motorcycles in Australia – and we can’t help...
Kawasaki needs to put a big, fat pause on the production and sale of their 2023 Ninja ZX-4RR fleet (the...
Wondering how things are going with Hero X Harley’s new peashooting powerhouse, the X440? According to Harley-Davidson CEO Jochen Zeitz last Thursday, the little roadster is more popular than they could have hoped; in fact, it’s proving what Harley, Triumph and Aprilia already know: Cheap bikes from reputable brands are...
While Harley’s X440 and Triumph’s Speed 400 / Scrambler 400 X butt heads for India’s markets, Aprilia continues her flirty...
We’ve just had a heads-up that KTM’s RC390 is stepping a little bit closer to the styling of the brand’s...
Ducati’s just dropped the ultimate apparel collection for when your two-wheeled grind takes a back seat for lazy vibes down local boulevards – and, in typical Ducati fashion, there are a plethora of options… six, to be exact. Let’s dive into this sweet sip of summer style, shall we? 2023...
Europe may have a rep from nearly every major motorcycle industry organization begging for an extension on the 2035 fossil...
Back in 2022, Can-Am stunned the Powersports industry by revealing not one, not two, but an entire range of two-wheeled...
Back in December of 2022, Triumph revealed that they were officially staking a spot(or two) in the upcoming 2024 SuperMotocross World Championship™ – and now that preparations are well underway, the Hinckley-based bike brand has given us a sneak peek into what they’re making, and why it’s been worth the...
The Austrians have just shown us the fruits of their more recent collaboration with footgear mogul Puma. The results? A...
…And that’s a wrap, folks. All 25 of Yamaha’s insane R1 GYTR PRO 25th Anniversary Edition bikes have been officially...
Harley’s just given us a glimpse at their sales for the second quarter of 2023 – and while the figures are decent, they fell a tad short of Wall Street’s predictions. Following the American bike brand’s Q1 results, Q2 has presented a -23% hit in the global bike sales area;...
Watch out, Harley – Zero Motorcycles has signed on with Hero Motocorp in the optimizing of bike markets… only these...
We currently know Bosch to be the one making partnerships with the likes of KTM (H2 SX Embedded Blind Spot...
The guys that co-engineered KTM’s rip-roaring RC 8C have just given us their updated 2024 GP2-890RR – and she’s been labelled “the peak of performance for the GP2/RC8C family.” Those are some hefty claims, so let’s take a look under that sexy tank-tail situ and see what Krämer gave us,...
Back towards the end of May, we covered rumors circling that Marc Marquez was considering a move from Honda Repsol...