Motorcycles

Following the shock announcement (pun intended!) of Ducati’s successful bid to supply electric bikes for the 2023 MotoE championship, the prototype has been unveiled.

Whereas in the Isle of Man, the races are man against the clock, in the Irish Road Racing series, they have massed starts and ever more insanely narrow country roads to race on.

Despite a history dotted with uncertainty and financial troubles, the iconic Italian manufacturer has survived for 100 years. Here’s a potted history of an idiosyncratic manufacturer.

It’s the thin end of the wedge as Italy passes a law making it illegal to take your off-road or adventure bike along tracks in forests and across fields. How long until other countries adopt a similar attitude?

Having separated the electric Livewire brand from the parent Harley Davidson brand, the company has now revealed its future plans.

In the 1960s, Batman and Robin thrilled TV audiences in their fight against the evil of Gotham City. With the help of various ingenious cars, boats and ’copters, they took on the likes of the Joker, the Penguin and the Riddler. Now, a replica Batcycle is up for auction.

Austrian designed and Chinese-built retro roadster is the spitting image of the Triumph Bonneville in more ways than just looks.

The best custom bikes are just a little bit unusual, if still beautifully executed and completely gorgeous. This Triumph Trident-engined creation is the work of Japanese master builder Kengo Kimura.

We love drag races here at topspeed.com and so do the guys at Hoonigan. Here they pit a 1500bhp Audi R8 against a drag Harley with nitrous injection and 240bhp.

Getting bored of reading about electric bikes? Well, it’s not going away any time soon. in fact, its even spreading to off-road bikes now.