Indian Motorcycle is going all-in with the mid-size cruiser market. It unveiled a fully revamped Scout series in April 2024. An updated Scout Sixty line followed just six months later. With eight variants now comprising the mid-size range, I thought the Minnesota-based manufacturer had exhausted all its Scout permutations. Apparently, I thought wrong. The 2026 Sport Scout […]
Author: William Gual
Maeving unveils 2026 RM2 with two-up capability
Maeving’s all-electric RM1. Its range and output may not meet the needs of all riders, but the classically styled e-roadster still appeals to Maeving’s core audience: hip, city-dwelling commuters. So when the British startup went back to the drawing board for the follow-up to the RM1, it aimed to pair that attractive form with additional […]
Polaris sells majority stake in Indian, making it a separate company
Parent company Polaris announced today that it is selling a majority stake in the motorcycle manufacturer to a Los Angeles-based private equity firm. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2026 and the new, independent Indian will be led by CEO Mike Kennedy, a former CEO at both RumbleOn, the nation’s […]
Kawasaki confirms 2026 Z1100 SE for U.S. market
In late September, Kawasaki officially confirmed the 2026 Z1100 and Z1100 SE for European markets. That announcement only left U.S. customers wondering, “What about us?” After nearly two weeks of delay, Team Green just answered in the affirmative. Well, for the SE variant, at least. Powering the 2026 Z1100 SE is Kawasaki’s recently refreshed 1,099 […]
Italy’s Daytona: Scenes from Italian Bike Week 2025
That’s when a group of bikers from Friuli Venezia Giulia, a region of northeast Italy, banded together to create the first annual Biker Fest International. They envisioned a show that could rival German Bike Week, Daytona, and Sturgis. Gaining that level of notoriety would take some time, though. Beset by rainy weather, the inaugural installment […]