Expert guide to top-spec middleweights: With so much choice out there, you’ll have no trouble finding a cracking buy

Published: 06 October 2023

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This class has been on fire over the last few years with no shortage of bikes packing stacks of performance – and that is great news if you are after a bargain because plenty are entering the market as owners look to upgrade.

If you are after bags of easy power, a top-rate chassis and eye-catching components, the top-spec middleweight class is for you.

Immense fun and far less intimidating than a super-naked, when it comes to grins for your pound, there is no better investment. Here are our picks…

Jon Urry

MCN contributor, original 916 & R1-owner, human Labrador, thoroughly nice bloke. Working for over 20 years in the motorcycle industry, Jon not only has an encyclopaedic knowledge of bikes, but has also interviewed many key players in the motorcycle industry, including designers, factory bosses and legendary racers. Still a passionate motorcyclist with child-like enthusiasm for two-wheels, Jon has a collection of both modern and classic bikes that he maintains himself and he writes a weekly column in MCN (newspaper) about used bikes and the state of the motorcycle market.