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This 110 Year-Old Motorcycle Sold For $1.3M, and It’s Easy To See Why

It’s easy to take modern motorcycle technology for granted. Today, you and I can walk into a showroom and buy a bike with 200 horsepower, advanced electronics, and aerodynamic fairings developed in a wind tunnel—provided you’ve got the dough. Suffice it to say that performance that was once the domain…

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Harley Teams With Build Moto So High School Students Can Make Motorcycles

I couldn't even study Spanish in high school. But thanks to Harley-Davidson, the students at Tomahawk Wisconsin can learn how to build motorcycles from scratch. More specifically, the 'Hatchet Choppers' teamed up with Harley to learn about tech skills as a byproduct of assembling motorcycles.

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Bell's Cheapest Motorcycle Helmet Should Have Been Made a Long Time Ago

When it comes to helmets, Bell is one of those legacy brands that have been around forever. If you’ve been riding for a while, you’ve probably worn or at least considered one. I’ve been a Bell fan for years and have a few in my rotation—my Qualifier for daily commutes,…

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This Scooter Wants To Join the Big Boys Of the ADV World

If you had told me a decade or so ago that adventure scooters would be a thing, I would have laughed. Yet, here we are. Somehow, in a world where dirt bikes, dual sports, and full-sized ADVs already exist, scooters have muscled their way into the adventure segment.

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European Motorcycle Industry Reports Impressive Double Digit Growth

The global motorcycle industry is a fascinating study of contrast. In the US, motorcycles are largely seen as recreational vehicles—weekend toys for enthusiasts rather than daily transportation. In Asia, however, two-wheelers are an essential part of life, serving as a primary means of mobility for millions.

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Watch a Ducati Panigale V4 Snow Bike Get Stranded in Freezing Temperatures

Ducatis, like Ferraris or MV Agustas, should never find their way into a scrapyard. So, seeing someone take a wrecked one and get it rolling again is heartwarming for us gearheads. But what Matt Spears did to his Panigale V4 goes far beyond getting it rolling. After showing the world how…

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Motorcycle Racing Nerds Get Ready for "Ago", the Giacomo Agostini Documentary

When you love motorcycling so much, as we all do here, you quickly run through the best motorcycle documentaries. Unlike the four-wheeled community, we don't have a whole lot to choose from. So, when a new documentary film or series comes out, all we can do is hope it's good—that's…

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Buy This $15 Million Compound in Glamis, Get 10 Polaris UTVs for Free

I've been to Glamis a handful of times throughout my life, and each time it gets better. There's something almost spiritual about the dunes. Especially at sunset, with the sun fading in the background, the heat rising off the sands, and a batshit UTV behind you. It's a special place,…

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Jawa’s 350 Legacy Edition Looks Like the Perfect Beginner-Friendly Cruiser

Jawa Motorcycles might not be the first name that comes to mind when you think of retro-styled cruisers, but this classic brand has been making waves in India and beyond. Originally founded in Czechoslovakia in the 1920s, Jawa built a strong reputation for stylish, easy-riding motorcycles.

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Simpson Drops Two New Dope Adventure Motorcycle Helmets

I've always known Simpson Helmets for the brand's drag racing lids, as well as being the helmet of choice by none other than Top Gear's Stig. It is, at this point, an iconic brand for that alone. But the company has built helmets for decades and does so with true…

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KTM Won't Die After All, But No One Knows Who Saved It

It's been months of bad news for KTM. Insolvency. Layoffs. A year's worth of motorcycles sitting on dealership lots. Camshafts that went kablooey. A will they, won't they, will they relationship with the brand's MotoGP team. And sell-offs of both MV Agusta, only months after acquiring a controlling stake, as…

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Say Goodbye To the Honda CB1300 With These Gorgeous Final Editions

Well, that didn't take long. If you're feeling like it was only a few days ago that Honda Japan posted a special teaser website about the upcoming final editions of the CB1300, you're totally correct about that. At the time, rumors were swirling in the Japanese press that the graphics…

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Aprilia Racers Days Are Back and Packed With Goodies for Riders of All Creeds

I never really knew what the Aprilia Racers Days were about, but I'd see Instagram clips of regular folks on track with Maverick Viñales and wonder how the hell they got the chance to follow a MotoGP race winner's lines. Well, I'm pretty sure it's down to Aprilia Racers Days, and…

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The Enigmatic Petronas FP1 Is a Superbike Cloaked In Mystery

Few motorcycles command the kind of mystique that the Petronas FP1 does. This bike is one of the most elusive homologation specials ever built simply because it was a superbike that was meant to make it big in the racing world, but for one reason or another, never really found…

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Is Kawasaki Putting a Supercharged Superbike Engine Into a UTV?

Imagine you own a powersports company, and you have one of the coolest engines on the market, but you only use it in one vehicle. That's not just silly; it's borderline mean to your demographic—BRP, please take some notes and stick that 325-hp rotax engine in something else.

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Triumph Is Recalling the TF 250-X For a Potentially Serious Issue

Triumph Motorcycles America is recalling certain 2024 and 2025 TF 250-X motorcycles due to an issue with the plastic used in the switch cube on the right handlebar. What's the problem? This plastic apparently reacts badly when exposed to brake fluid, which is a problem given its proximity to the…

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Honda’s New Naked Sportbike Is Tiny, and Makes a Whole Bunch Of Sense

For the longest time, commuter motorcycles have been the embodiment of function over form—plain, uninspiring, and built for the sole purpose of getting you from A to B. But lately, something interesting has been happening, particularly in the Asian market.

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Willow Spring International Raceway Was Just Bought, and We're Not Sure What'll Happen

What is there to say when you hear of anything being bought by private equity (PE) but, "Please, not again. When will it stop?". Maybe we just hear the bad stories about PE buying an asset, scalping it, and selling it off for parts once it's maximized a relatively short-term…

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Is BMW Buying KTM?

Look, based on everything that's been going on with KTM, I won't discount any new rumor that hits the streets. Why? Because most of them have come to fruition in the manner that was originally reported on. See KTM's denials about its financial situation or that the MotoGP team wasn't…

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The Fantic Caballero 700 Is the Forbidden Fruit of the Scrambler Motorcycle World

Boutique Italian manufacturer Fantic is stirring things up in a middleweight segment long dominated by big names like Yamaha, Honda, and Aprilia. For years, these brands have pretty much set the pace, but Fantic’s Caballero 700 Scrambler is proving that there’s room for some pretty fresh ideas. Because unlike other…

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Ruroc Introduced Four New Designs, and I Think We Need More Wild Helmet Styles

I remember in my youth the wild designs that were emblazoned across countless motorcycle helmets. From fire and lightning patterns to insane graphics and characters to iconic liveries, everywhere you looked, someone had a rad helmet.

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Honda's V3 Concept Project Is Making Moves, and Here's the Latest

If you're the type of person who gets excited thinking about moto development, then Honda's V3 project that it introduced at EICMA may well have been haunting your dreams. I mean, totally fair; I'm right there with you.

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KTM Hopes You'll Finally Buy Its New-Old Motorcycles By Offering a Longer Warranty

KTM is largely in a pickle of its own making. And I'm not even talking about the current insolvency proceedings that are happening in the background. No, I'm talking about how the Austrian company ended up with more than a year's worth of unsold inventory sitting on dealership lots.

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Could This Be the Best Value Modular Motorcycle Helmet?

I think we can all agree that a helmet is more than just a safety device, it’s an extension of your riding style, a reflection of your personality, and an essential part of your comfort on the road. Whether you’re tackling the daily commute, carving up mountain passes, or exploring…

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Looks Like the US Will See These Cool New Hondas After All, But There's a Catch

Back at the beginning of January, we first learned that Canada would be getting three new Honda motorcycles that had previously been introduced in other international markets. Although the US has gotten the XL750 Transalp, so far we have yet to see its platform-sharing sibling, the CB750 Hornet.

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