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“This thing’s gonna be a chungus!” In the northern tip of Idaho, 70-odd miles from Spokane, Washington, a magnificently silly project is underway: a colossal batpod of a motorcycle with a KTM motor, monster truck wheels, and hydraulic steering.Continue… Continue reading KTM-powered “Monster Chopper” gets hydraulic steering
MIT’s Electric Vehicle Team has taken to the racetrack with a Ducati 900SS that’s been gutted and converted into a hydrogen fuel cell motorcycle, hoping to start collecting a few fossil-fuelled scalps. It’s also open-sourcing the design for others.Cont… Continue reading MIT’s EV team takes its open-source hydrogen motorcycle to the track
Kawasaki is doing some fascinating work toward decarbonizing motorcycles. After launching the world’s first hybrid streetbike in the Ninja 7 Hybrid, it’s now built a supercharged, zero-emissions, hydrogen-powered Ninja H2 SX. An H2 H2, if you will.Cont… Continue reading Kawasaki has built a hydrogen-powered, supercharged Ninja H2 SX
Two wheels, a motor, a seat, some handlebars and some footrests: put ’em in one arrangement, and you’ve got a sportsbike. In another, a cruiser. Or an adventure machine. Or a commuter. Why not a single, shape-shifting architecture that does it all?Cont… Continue reading Ziggymoto perfectly illustrates the shape-shifting motorcycle idea
Two wheels, a motor, a seat, some handlebars and some footrests: put ’em in one arrangement, and you’ve got a sportsbike. In another, a cruiser. Or an adventure machine. Or a commuter. Why not a single, shape-shifting architecture that does it all?Cont… Continue reading Ziggymoto perfectly illustrates the shape-shifting motorcycle idea
One of the most magnificent and terrifying steeds in motorcycledom gets its second major overhaul for 2024. The new KTM 1390 Super Duke R gets a bigger motor, a bigger tank, semi-active suspension and a savagely alien new headlight design.Continue Read… Continue reading KTM’s Beast 3.0 naked tarmac ripper evolves in an alien direction
Bimota has a whole new design for its wacky hub-steered front end, nearly doubling the steering range, and it’s celebrating this achievement with one of the strangest production motorcycles of the year: a 200-horsepower supercharged adventure bike.Cont… Continue reading Bimota gets weird with hub-steered, supercharged adventure tourer
Boutique motorcycle company Langen has unveiled a stablemate to its delectable, super-lightweight 2-Stroke. The 2025 Lightspeed rocks a hard-punching 1190cc V-twin, and hits the one horsepower per kilogram mark – at least, til you sit on it.Continue Re… Continue reading Langen follows its tasty 2-Stroke with a retro Lightspeed V-Twin
Ducati has a new motorbike, and it’s celebrating this fact with a series of photos and videos so flagrantly ribald and saucy they’d be pixelated out in Japan. I mean, look at them. In fact, forget the bike, can I buy some of this guy’s talent?Continue … Continue reading Ye gods, the new Ducati 698 Mono does wheelies and powerslides for you
Ducati has a new motorbike, and it’s celebrating this fact with a series of photos and videos so flagrantly ribald and saucy they’d be pixelated out in Japan. I mean, look at them. In fact, forget the bike, can I buy some of this guy’s talent?Continue … Continue reading Ye gods, the new Ducati 698 Mono does wheelies and powerslides for you