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I love small-displacement motorcycles, particularly sportbikes. They may not make sense to a lot of people since the very essence of a sportbike is about going fast. But not small sportbikes. They’re fun, easy to ride, and look like miniature versions of their top-tier siblings.

VR46’s new recruit Franco Morbidelli set the pace on the second day of the Sepang MotoGP test, leading Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo.

Custom motorcycles are cool for a whole number of reasons. For one, they’re all about self-expression—rolling pieces of art that blend craftsmanship, performance, and attitude. It doesn’t really matter if it’s a café racer crafted from a Triumph Thruxton, a retro-inspired roadster like the Royal Enfield Interceptor, or a high-performance…

Fabio Quartararo set the quickest time on the opening day of the Sepang MotoGP test, while Jorge Martin suffered a huge crash on the Aprilia and was taken to hospital.

Manufacturers are scrambling to make bikes more efficient, as lowering emissions while pumping out more performance is the name of the game. This is especially true now, given the rising cost of fuel and stricter emissions regulations pretty much all over the world. At least, everywhere else apart from the…

There are some seriously big names in the motorcycle world that everyone pretty much knew from the start, and will more than likely outlive today’s generation of riders. You know, the likes of Yamaha, Ducati, and BMW. But as big as these names become, none of them are quite as…

MotoGP will host its first full-fledged pre-season test of 2025 at the Sepang International Circuit outside Kuala Lumpur on 5-7 February. 

Toyota's naturally aspirated V-10 from the LFA was a one-and-done affair since the 4.8-liter engine was sadly never used in another model. However, at one point, the sweet music made by the 1LR-GUE, co-developed with Yamaha, was baked into a normal car. It was more of an experiment to discover…

Japanese culture is marked by tradition, and this is perfectly palpable in MotoGP, where Yamaha and Honda have resisted as much as they could before surrendering to the cruellest evidence and concluding that their methods, infallible until just over five years ago, have become completely obsolete. Neither of them managed…

Arguably, at least half the reason that motorcycle people find ourselves drawn to bikes is their stories. If a bike has a good story, chances are excellent that we want to hear it. And if it's a vintage bike, maybe some small-to-large part of us longs to make ourselves a…

This is going to sound shameful, but I'm not a fan of using public transport, generally. Well, specifically, I hate taking city buses in Ireland. They're rarely on time, you never know what kind of incident could happen—they're where I've seen some of the craziest stuff on Irish soil—and it's…