Indian Motorcycle’s 101 Scout is the brand’s most performance-rich cruiser, edging out the Sport Chief in power, weight, and componentry. Indian updated the Scout platform for 2025 with a larger 1,250cc liquid-cooled engine, a new steel tube front frame, and an adjustable electronics suite. The Scout Classic, Scout Bobber, Super Scout, and Sport Scout receive different styling, but performance is...

When it comes to choosing a Husqvarna, you’re spoilt for choice these days thanks to the KTM-owned manufacturer’s habit of providing not just one but two variants of each new model. Should you opt for a single-cylinder 125 or 401, or this, the all-new twin-cylinder 801? Any way you go, you get a brace of options: Vitpilen or Svartpilen....

Coming down the Chiriaco Summit just south of Joshua Tree National Park, I could feel searing rays from the eastern sun raking my right flank like a row of hot needles. A quick glance at the Street Glide’s notebook-size touchscreen showed an ambient temp of 105 degrees—at 11:30 a.m. Still three hours to go.The choice to jump on Interstate...

Scramblers are often seen as streetbikes that compromise on-road performance for off-road style, and most of the time, that’s a pretty accurate description. Royal Enfield’s Bear 650, however, is promised to be more than a brown seat and some knobby tires. Compared to the INT 650, the Bear sees new wheel sizes, updated ergonomics, a taller subframe, updated suspension,...

Kawasaki’s KLX230R and KLX230R S receive major updates for 2025 with improved performance and rider comfort. These air-cooled trail bikes offer a balance of approachability and capability. This KLX line is designed as a recreational bike with an emphasis on low seat height, affordable pricing, and green-sticker designation. But it’s important to Kawasaki that the KLX230R and KLX230R S...

Without BMW’s original GS there may never have been adventure bikes as we know them today. Sure, there were large dual sport or multipurpose bikes that preceded the R 80 G/S, but that was the motorcycle that most credit for creating what we now know as the ADV category. As has been the case since the original R 1150...

Royal Enfield is the oldest, continuously manufacturing motorcycle company, having debuted its first bike in 1901. Over the last 123 years, the company hasn’t made its mark or gained popularity by racing at the highest level in the last half century. Royal Enfield doesn’t have any MotoGP championships, World Superbike championships, or major motocross championships. No, Royal Enfield took...

At face value, it appears Ducati has only mildly tweaked its Multistrada V4 S for 2025, which is why we arrived in Perugia, Italy, a few hours north of Rome, expecting a couple of easy few days on the classy adventure-tourer. However, it quickly became apparent that despite only mildly updating the Multi’s familiar looks, beneath the bodywork lies...

Shakespeare references aren’t the first thing that typically come to mind when thinking about a motorcycle, but after a few weeks aboard the 2025 101 Scout, it’s hard not to consider Romeo and Juliet’s famous “What’s in a name?” question. If a rose, by any other name, smells just as sweet, then wouldn’t the 101 Scout, by any other...

I’m following a Toyota hatchback at Bosch’s Shiobara, Japan, proving ground with the adaptive cruise control set. My prototype Automatic Manual Transmission (AMT) equipped 2025 KTM Super Adventure S follows at a safe distance adjusting speed as the driver speeds up and slows down. This is nothing new; radar-based adaptive cruise control made it to production on the 2021...

What makes a great adventure bike? Well, that’s about as loaded a question as there is in motorcycling. The class is so complex these days that there is literally a bike for every type of riding and rider. But there are a bunch of bikes that can just about do it all—ones that walk down the middle of the...

When I started being intentional about upping my off-road adventure riding ability, I realized I had a lot of mental baggage about dropping the bike. It wasn’t just that I was afraid of damaging the motorcycle, it was more that I thought that falling over meant I wasn’t any good. After dropping motorcycles like it’s my job (well, I...

BMW practically invented the ADV class back in 1981. In German, “GS” stands for Gelände/Straße which loosely translates to terrain/street in English. More than 40 decades later, BMW’s philosophy of the GS remains the same: Produce a motorcycle capable of tackling any terrain over any amount of miles. The R 1300 GS does that better than any other BMW we...

Pierer Mobility has offered class-leading performance, adjustability, and technical features in the lightweight category for years with the KTM RC 390—a 2022 Cycle World Ten Best winner—and 390 Duke. Meanwhile its Husqvarna Vitpilen 401 and Svartpilen 401 counterparts have fallen behind since their inception in 2018. But after years of being static, Husqvarna offers an all-new Svartpilen 401 and...

Racebikes are just different.Everything they do is informed by leanness and purpose, and the best ones exude the thought, development, and preparation that went into them.Like this 1972 BMW R 75/5 built in the spirit of the early Butler Smith 750cc superbikes constructed at the dawn of the class. Everybody knows the R 90 S of Reg Pridmore, but...