For decades, India’s role in the global motorcycle industry was simple: build bikes cheaply, in huge numbers, for its own domestic market. The machines were small, basic, and designed for short commutes, overflowing traffic, brutal heat, bad roads, and relentless daily use. Whatever survived India was considered durable. Whatever failed was quietly forgotten. What’s changed […]
Category: Performance
10 tips for winter motorcycle riding You don’t have to live in Miami or Phoenix to be able to ride through the winter instead of storing your motorcycle. But at the same time, you don’t have to be exploring the ice roads of northern Canada to encounter challenges if you keep riding when cold weather hits. Riding […]
Ural fresh start
Ural Motorcycles is going in an entirely different direction. Will the change be a fresh start that allows the company, which dates to World War II, survive? Or is this a radical change of direction that will leave behind the traditional customers for the quirky sidecar rigs while failing to attract new buyers? I don’t […]
2026 Triumph Street Triple RX and Moto2 first look
For several years, the Street Triple was Triumph’s best-selling model, and one way it racked up those big numbers apart from its all-around goodness was offering multiple flavors for riders of varying tastes and needs. Someone on a budget who wanted a modern ride for weekday commuting that was still plenty sporty enough for weekend […]
2026 Indian Sport Scout RT first look
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 […]