Supersports 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.

There have been many significant Italian motorcycles, but the Ducati 916 has a strong claim to being the most iconic.

It doesn’t matter how old you are, the love for Lego never goes away, especially when we can build a motorbike.

Electric bikes are known for their insane torque delivery from zero revs, seemingly allowing them to out-accelerate anything else on the road. However, in this video, the Kawasaki ZX10R has other ideas.

CEO of oddly named Damon, manufacturer of electric motorcycles, wants there to be zero collision­ related fatalities with Damon products by 2030. Is that possible?

John McGuinness has announced that he has joined the Honda factory team for the 2022 road racing series in Ireland and the Isle of Man. At 50 years old, is he over the hill or can he still cut it?

Revealed at EICMA, the new CF Moto SR-C21 shows that the Chinese are making huge strides in motorcycle design. Tie-in with KTM means that engines could be sourced frm the Austrian company.

Echoing the wailing three-cylinder MV Agusta race bikes of the early 1970s, the Magni Italia is also a tribute to Arturo Magni, MV’s legendary race team manager during the team’s successful period in GP racing in the ’60s and ’70s.

They may be relatively new models, but Aprilia has seen fit to tweak the 660cc models, the Tuono and RS, upgrading the former to Factory specification and the latter gets a limited edition version with a Stars and Stripes paint job.

The second Kawasaki-engined Bimota is a retro-styled beauty of a bike. 140bhp engine from the Ninja 1000SX in a bespoke chassis, clothed in carbon bodywork with full suite of Kawasaki electronics.

With this upgrade, Honda has addressed criticisms of the latest Fireblade in terms of gearing, while tweaking the electronics at the same time. SP available as 30th Anniversary limited edition.

Valentino Rossi will have received messages from millions of people - from the ordinary man in the street to royalty - upon his retirement but this one might just men the most to him.

After the excitement around the track-only KTM RC 8C came disappointment that the Austrian manufacturer wasn’t making a road-going version. That may be about to change.

Car vs. Bike drag races are great, right? I mean, they have to be because the bike always wins. Well, they do until the car guys start cheating.

The recent announcement that Ducati would be supplying bikes for the MotoE race series in place of Energica from 2023 came as a shock but would the series have benefitted from more than one supplier?

Kawasaki takes its Superbike racing program to the bank with its made-for-public Ninja ZX-10R platform that brings an uncommon level of performance to the streets. A newly-updated engine carries improved cooling features and exhaust components with a new bundle of ride-control and ride-safety electronics to keep it all under control. Next-gen bodywork wraps up the package with windtunnel-tested efficiency and some interesting paint choices.