Motorcycles

Since Soichiro Honda founded the company that carries his name in 1948, Honda has cranked out reliable econoboxes like the Accord and Civic, and spawned the luxury auto brand, Acura. Honda made several memorable cars that never made it to United States dealerships, but for every car sold worldwide in the last dozen years or so, […]

Jeff McCollough/Shutterstock As much fun as it is to hop onto a motorcycle and crank it up, it’s not as simple as pressing a button and hitting the road, at least not until electric motorcycles get less expensive. Like any engine-powered vehicle, your motorcycle needs fuel, necessitating regular trips to the local gas station. Before

Fluxfactory/Getty Images When you take your motorcycle out onto the open road, go into the wild on muddy single tracks, or even commute regularly on two wheels, things can get messy. And with so many exposed cracks and crevices all over a motorcycle, it’s easy to get dirt in hard-to-reach places. So, how do you

Darthart/Getty Images Everyone reaches a point in life when they ponder how different things would be if they had a motorcycle. However, if you aren’t familiar with the biker lifestyle, finding the right kind of vehicle can be overwhelming. In the world of sports bikes, it’s primarily Ducati vs. Suzuki, at least regarding the major

vane_hinausindiewelt/Shutterstock There is a lot to consider when buying a motorcycle. Manufacturers will typically try to sell you on performance, specs, and features, but reliability is a metric often overlooked. It doesn’t matter how fast your bike can get from 0-60 when you’ve blown a piston ring and stranded on the side of the highway.

Gokhanilgaz/Getty Images Ducati makes some of the rarest, most exciting motorcycles ever built. For beginning bikers, that’s a bit of a double-edged sword. Few riders need a Moto GP-worthy bike for everyday riding, and novice motorcyclists are probably better off not dropping $100,000 on a powerful, expensive Ducati Superleggera V4. Motorcycle newbies will want something they

Honda has made a lot of special motorcycles over the years. Whether it’s the fastest Honda motorcycles, the rarest Honda bikes, or the coolest looking Hondas of all time, there’s a unique two-wheeled Honda that covers all the bases. And, of course, the best-selling motorcycle of all time, the Honda Cub. With all the high-profile and popular

Harley-Davidson’s reputation for extremely powerful motorcycles has grown steadily with each new model release. Revealingly, the «hog» moniker started as a nickname dubbed by journalists reporting on the Wrecking Crew motorcycle racers, a Harley-exclusive team whose mascot was a piglet. But the name likely stuck due to the motorcycles’ large size, roaring sound, and powerful

Neydtstock/Getty Images Kawasaki motorcycles have been helping bikers throttle up on the world’s various dirt tracks, race tracks, and freeways for the better part of the past century, and the Japanese motor company is primed to continue doing so for the foreseeable future. As for its past, Kawasaki has had skin in the motorcycle game

Retro-styled motorcycles like the Janus Halcyon 450 and Kawasaki W800 are hot commodities at the moment, but nothing beats the real thing when it comes to classic engineering and styling. Englishman, George Brough had worked for his father — William Brough, owner of Brough Motorcycles. George had been building motorcycles since he was a young

Have you ever spotted a news station helicopter flying overhead and wondered what would happen if you took that engine and put it into a motorcycle? There are plenty of high-performance bikes that aren’t for the faint of heart, but only one that includes a helicopter’s turbine engine.  The MTT 420-RR motorcycle is remarkable in

Christie Goodwin/Getty Images Norton Motorcycles have long been revered for being as speedy as they are stylish, and for the better part of the past 125 years, bikes bearing the company’s iconic logo have turned heads on speedways and freeways across the globe. The company’s story began in Birmingham, England, with James Lansdowne Norton founding his