
Kawasaki revealed a new 250cc Ninja for the Asian market featuring a single-cylinder engine. Called the Kawasaki Ninja RR Mono or 250SL (depending on the market), the single-cylinder model offers a bit less power and more torque than the parallel-Twin Ninja 250 but weighs 46 pounds lighter. We...
The new Indian Motorcycles, Star Bolt, Suzuki V-Strom 1000 and Yamaha FZ-09 we showed you in recent issues were just appetizers; here's the main course for 2014. BMW K 1600 GTL Exclusive BMW has been hard on the gas launching new-for-2014 models, including the F 800 GS Adventure (Rider, October...
Earlier this week, we uncovered Kawasaki's design trademark for a naked version of its 250cc single-cylinder Ninja RR Mono. It now looks like Kawasaki isn't the only Japanese manufacturer with a small-displacement naked model on the way. Honda has registered a trademark on the design for a new...
Announced at the pre-event press conference today at the Valencian GP, Valentino Rossi dropped the bombshell that he would not be having Jeremy Burgess as his crew chief for the 2014 MotoGP season. Rossi reportedly told Yamaha Racing about his decision last week, with Burgess himself learning of...
While the talk of the Valencian GP will be the on-track action between Marc Marquez and Jorge Lorenzo, the off-track chatter is about HRC's open class race bike for private teams, the Honda RCV1000R. This is the machine that Nicky Hayden, Scott Redding, and Karel Abraham, with other riders...
Over the last two weeks, we've posted several "New Metal 2015″ stories on our website, with motorcycles such as the Ducati Multistrada 1200, BMW S1000XR, and Yamaha YZF-R3 capturing a lion's share of the attention. Now, we'd like to offer a dozen more 2015 machines, presented here in quick-hit...