BALANCE OF POWER CW Comparison Test: Kawasaki Ninja 400 meets Yamaha YZF-R3 By Michael Gilbert.

WHEN RACING WAS KING Four 250cc sportbikes and 19,000 rpm By Kent Kunitsugu.

DEVOLUTION Modern EV tech meets an age-old Russian sidecar By Sam Smith.

HONDA TRAIL 125
Honda’s latest small-bore throwback recalls the good old days of the off-road step-through.
By Mark Hoyer

ASSAULT ON PIKES PEAK, EXPEDITION II 
Forty-three years ago, we did it with a Honda 50 and a Stella 10-speed bicycle. We’ve learned a lot since then…
By Peter Egan

FUTURE SPORT
Aprilia takes a broad aim with its RS 660 sport twin. We dive into the technical background of the bike.
By Kevin Cameron

EASY STREET
Aprilia’s RS 660 is meant to be swift, secure, and fun. Does it deliver?
By Bruno dePrato

HIMALAYAN IN THE MIDWEST
The 3,500-mile Royal Enfield summer.
By Peter Egan

RADICAL RERUN
Suzuki’s Katana returns.
By Seth Richards

DESIGN MACHT MUT(H)
Drawing the original Katana.
By Mark Lindemann

SHARPEST BLADE
Exclusive first ride on the Honda Fireblade SP.
By Michael Gilbert

FROM SCRATCH
Max Hazan builds an amazing Harley racer that never was.
By Morgan Gales

THE MYSTERIOUS MIDGET
The story of Harley-Davidson’s lost KRTT prototype.
By Don Emde

SUPERBIKE STIMULATION Three motorcycles, 559 horsepower, one winner. By Michael Gilbert.

SERIOUS FLUX Riding Harley-Davidson’s first electric, the LiveWire. By Don Canet.

FOREWORD THINKING A technical analysis of the LiveWire. By Kevin Cameron.

CROSS GENERATIONAL RACING Smoke, oil and speed By Michael Gilbert.

SHOOTING THE COAST 2 Touring California Highway 1 on the new BMW R 1200 RT By Peter Egan.

BURNING RUBBER Using 17 motorcycles to study creation and destruction of Pirelli tires on an active volcano By Adam Waheed.

THE FOUR FREEDOMS The miracle of the modern dual-sport, a group test. By Justin Dawes.

THOUSAND-MILE STARE We ride Triumph’s 1200cc Scrambler Baja Racer, in Baja. By Justin Dawes.

V4 R The best Ducati superbike ever, right down to the wings. By Don Canet.

BIG DIRT Three paths to adventure compared in the wilds of Utah By Justin Dawes.

3 LEAF CLOVER Dick Mann’s unlikely Daytona winner By Kevin Cameron.

WAYNE RAINEY’S QUADROPHENIA A champion picks his four favorite racebikes By Eric Johnson.

LET IT LEAN Riding and understanding the Yamaha Niken three-wheeler. By ARI HENNING

FOR SPACIOUS SKIES A study of the American bagger riding across the West. By ZACK COURTS

LEFT MAKES RIGHT Riding Indian’s Scout FTR1200 street tracker By MARK HOYER

THE KING SLAYER Honda went dirt-tracking in the 1980s and did it well By KEVIN CAMERON

BEAST OF BOLOGNA Ducati unleashes the V-4 Panigale superbike.

PENINSULA OF THE ABSURD Crash course in exploring 50 years of the Baja 1000.

AJS PORCUPINE A fast and flawed 1950s Grand Prix racer.

GET LOST Riding the Suzuki V-Strom 650XT in Death Valley.

THE GOLD WING STANDARD
We explore the history, mantra,
and design execution of Honda's
famous touring bike and what
makes the new model special.
By Steve Anderson

CROSSPLANE CAGE
You might think there is no more
insanely amusing place for a 170-
hp YZF-R1 engine than in a motorcycle.
Yamaha disagreed.
By Zach Bowman

OLD IRON, YOUNG BLOOD The next generation of custom builders and artists is shaping the future of motorcycling. Hint: The future looks very, very good.

CAL'S CALI CAFÉ A custom Honda CB550 with some choice modifications makes its way to the MotoGP paddock for a very special moment with the LCR Honda team and Cal Crutchlow.

HARLEY-DAVIDSON HERITAGE CLASSIC 114 TEST We put the new Softail to the test in town and on the highway to find out if this is the best cruiser H-D has ever made.

ADVENTURE TREK Traveling to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon aboard the Honda Africa Twin and KTM 1090 Adventure R leaves the daily bustle in the dust.

SPOKES FOR DIFFERENT FOLKS Why do some bikes have wirespoke wheels while others have cast wheels? We cast light on the subject and discuss the merits of each design. 

TEN BEST BIKES 2017 Bikes get better and better. It makes the job of finding the best harder but also more fun. From road to dirt to racetrack, we ride them all in the search of Ten Best.

BIG CHANGES IN CRUISER LAND Eight 2018 Softail models now have a MilwaukeeEight powertrain, all-new frame and suspension, LED lighting, styling updates, and more. Will these improvements help cushion the death of the Dyna platform for The Faithful?  

RIDING THE NEW SOFTAILS We journeyed to Milwaukee to experience the new Softails. After a tour of the H-D Product Development Center, it was off to Blackhawk Farms Raceway for a secret first ride on each of these new cruisers.  

INDIAN SCOUT FTR750 FACTORY RACER When offered a ride aboard an Indian factory race team dirt-track bike, you make the most of the rare opportunity. Even when Mother Nature attempts to dampen your fun lapping a well-prepped quarter-mile of red carpet.

2017 BMW HP4 RACER More power, less weight, sharper handling, and very limited. The Bavarian Motor Works delivers an ultra exotic carbon-fiber track-only superbike. 

CAFÉ RACERS BMW R nineT Racer vs. Triumph Thruxton 1200 Getting our caffeine high SoCal-style with a double shot of retro sport twins with back-road aspirations.

WALT SIEGL An international résumé of diverse life experience is put to work creating custom machines that exemplify passion and old-world craftsmanship.

TAKEN LIGHTLY Ducati’s 1299 Superleggera is a case study in weight reduction, a no-expense-spared superbike meant for going fast around a racetrack. Our 20-minute session at Mugello is proof.  

EVOLUTION OF THE SPORTBIKE You can’t know where you’re going until you know where you’ve been. A look at where the sportbike started and the technology that makes today’s superbikes super.

FIRST RIDE: 2017 KAWASAKI NINJA 1000 A California road trip on Kawasaki’s newly refined “Gentleman Sportbike”.

EL SOLITARIO DESERT WOLVES El Solitario’s custom Harley-Davidson Sportsters, in the African desert, is proof that crazy really is the new normal in the changing world of two wheels. Meet the Desert Wolves.

ONE MAD MOTUS Bryan Fuller creates a one-of-a-kind custom Motus by ditching the unnecessary. Ever wondered what it’s like to ride a 1,600cc V-4 pared down to the essentials? Wonder no more. 

FIRST RIDE: 2017 SUZUKI GSX-R1000 Suzuki’s base-model GSX-R1000 is meant to offer the best performance per dollar. Here, we ride the bike at Circuit of The Americas and on Hill Country roads around Austin.

THE UNNECESSARY EXPRESS Two men, one Ural sidecar, and a nonstop 32-hour record-breaking ride from Seattle to Los Angeles. For no good reason whatsoever. What could go wrong?

2017 KTM 1090 ADVENTURE R KTM goes the opposite direction with its new 1090 Adventure R, building a lighter-weight, lesspowerful replacement for the 1190 Adventure R. And it’s fantastic. 

RIDING IN THE CLOUDS A trip through Wyoming’s backcountry, aboard a Timbersled equipped Husqvarna FE 501, is proof that snowbikes are like nothing you’ve ever ridden before.

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