Naked, supermoto, streetfigher, café racer, super-naked — whatever you want to call it (we’re leaning toward super-naked) — this 2008 KTM RC8 that recently rolled out of Deus Ex Machina’s garage is stark, uncompromising, and muscular. Where the stock RC8 is a fully faired superbike, albeit with some snarling angular character, it’s a race bike…
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As the annual EICMA trade show wraps up in Milan, we’re taking a look at some of our favorite highlights from the past week. We start with the new Royal Enfield Classic 650 and Moto Guzzi V7 Sport, then examine the bonkers 2025 KTM 1390 Super Duke GT. Husqvarna brought their new Pioneer electric dirt…
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Based in Burghausen in Upper Bavaria, Krämer Motorcycles is a boutique marque with a singular focus—race bikes. Everything they create is 100 percent track-focused, jam-packed full of high-end engineering, and slathered in top-shelf components. Now they’ve applied that ethos to their first naked bike, the Krämer GP2-890 XX hypernaked. Unveiled today at EICMA, the Krämer…
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The German scooter specialist SIP Scootershop has built a bonkers custom Vespa to celebrate three decades of business. On the other side of the world, K-Speed has turned the new Triumph Speed 400 into a svelte café racer, while a pro fabricator from down under has built a retina-searing Sportster chopper. We conclude the weekend’s…
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Motorcycles have to be just about the most relative machines on wheels, as everything we enjoy about the way they accelerate, corner…
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Long relegated to youth and playbike riders, the heyday for electric dirt bikes has somewhat lagged behind the catapulting popularity of other…
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Motorcycle designers of the early ’80s probably ponder how we got here, a time when street bikes with exposed frames, unshrouded headlight…
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Track racing enthusiasts, hide your wallets; the spicy 2024 KTM RC 8C has just broken cover. Built by hand and limited to…
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The 2024 MotoGP season kicks off in Qatar this weekend, so we’re taking a quick break from our regular programming for our…
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We’re purveyors of the finer elements of internal combustion, and as such, we treasure things like the symphony of mechanical parts at…
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This year is off to a small start… for us, at least. As the new year revs up and fresh custom motorcycles…
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It’s that time of the year again. The numbers are in, the data’s been analyzed, and our brains hurt—all in the name…
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