Motorcycle Road Tests & Comparisons

New-School Cool Takes On Old-School Cred. A Sideways Leer At The Naked Class, Circa 2005 more

It's late afternoon and still cold under the low winter sun. There are quite a few cars on the N8 as it snakes from the old home of the Bol... more

130-plus horsepower, exotic materials and high-end build quality make Confederate's F124 Hellcat the Bimota of the bayous more

When we were putting our July 2005 issue together, the performance stats for the Buell Lightning XB9SX CityX versus Kawasaki Z750S... more

Nothing succeeds like success. Even 13 years after making its showroom debut as a three-cylinder tarmac trailie which over the years has... more

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As Triumph started leaking hints and concept photos of the outrageous new Rocket III a certain feeling of deja vu settled over the hallowed... more

When MV Agusta's F4S debuted spectacularly at the 1997 Milan show, it was almost universally adored—for its technical credentials as... more

Way back when some folks were sniveling about a 72-year-old actor in the White House, or about missing the last episode of M*A*S*H,... more

Many folks assume that once a new motorcycle company begins producing actual machines, it has cleared its last major hurdle. As both Indian... more

Moto Guzzi's eyelids didn't flutter and close because of adult-onset narcolepsy, or even impending death. It was a nap, a brief timeout... more

You expect certain things from the Ninja. Power. Quickness. Agility. Focus. Bravado. Attitude. Heavy on the attitude. Still, unless you... more

It only makes sense. Although slow to get off the launching pad, the big-bore naked bikes have headed into orbit. Combined, the Japanese... more

Europeans always seem to do budget bikes differently. Style often wins over content, particularly for manufacturers who have to work... more

Triumph's John Bloor is known as a fiscal hard-ass. He flies economy class and expects underlings to do the same. The Hinckley factory is a... more

When Honda rolled the now legendary RC211V MotoGP motorcycle onto its first grid back in 2002, we all knew we were seeing something... more

Most people are more likely to think Mandello del Lario is a new antipasto special at Locanda Veneta rather than the home of Italy's oldest... more

In the never-ending race to build the biggest V-twin, Kawasaki has just fired a big-inch salvo across the bows of the worthy oppositions'... more

WE'VE SEEN THAT FACE BEFORE. You're looking at this curious red motorcycle like a dog that smells bacon but sees an empty frying pan. Don't... more

The scenario is intimidating, yet inescapable. Totally exhausted after a perfect day at Willow Springs International Raceway, imagine... more

Has it really been 30 years since Kawasaki levered the motorcycling world off its axis with the Z-1? Indeed. Those old enough to have some... more

When Commander in Chief Boehm said a new Moto Guzzi was joining our test fleet, the older staffers began reminiscing like war buddies about... more

Lying on my back next to the downed DL1000 in the city of Capetown, South Africa, all I could think of was the scene from Black more