New Motorcycles for 2024 and 2025

New motorcycles for 2024 - upcoming bike models and in-depth features from the world's best motorcycling publication, MCN.

From extreme in-line fours to hybrid nakeds, there’s a lot of new metal on offer during 2024, with more to come in 2025. MCN is first to give you all the breaking news and in-depth analysis.

Kawasaki ER-6n revamped

Kawasaki ER-6n revamped

Kawasaki’s ER-6n has been heavily updated for 2012 as these pictures show. The naked middleweight shares mechanical components with the faired ER-6f and gets the same changes as that bike, including a...

Ducati reveal 195bhp V-twin 'Superquadro'

Ducati reveal 195bhp V-twin 'Superquadro'

This is the radical, all-new 1200cc ‘Superquadro’ engine which will power Ducati’s eagerly awaited new superbike, the 1199 Panigale – and it’s set to revolutionize superbikes. In this week’s MCN – out...

First Zero Type 9 lands in UK

First Zero Type 9 lands in UK

The first production Zero Type 9 from Japan has just arrived at the company’s UK distributor Krazy Horse Custom Cycles in Bury St Edmunds. The £30,566, 1450cc fuel-injected Harley-Davidson Twin...

MV Agusta 750S Classic Concept

MV Agusta 750S Classic Concept

Here’s my idea for a MV Agusta Classic 750S. It would use the engine and frame of the F4 and have look of the 750S of the seventies.

New titanium colour for 2012 Ducati Multistrada

New titanium colour for 2012 Ducati Multistrada

The 2012 Ducati Multistrada will be available in a new “race titanium matte” colour scheme and carry an upgraded seat for next year’s riding season. The new colour option will include a “racing black”...

Horex delays launch of 200bhp blown V6

Horex delays launch of 200bhp blown V6

German firm Horex is holding back the 200bhp supercharged version of its V6 roadster because of component supply problems and will launch the standard version first next spring. Horex planned to...

New Victory High-Ball revealed

New Victory High-Ball revealed

American firm Victory has released details of the 2012 range of bikes with the stripped down High-Ball bobber, an all-new model for the UK, leading a host of other changes including ABS across many...

Way cool Honda VT750S special editions

Way cool Honda VT750S special editions

Honda has added ‘championship white’ paint, speed stripe and retro logo to its VT750S, significantly boosting the appeal of what was already perhaps the most effortlessly cool bike in its...

Ducati Streetfighter 848 launch - first impressions

Ducati Streetfighter 848 launch - first impressions

MCN’s Trevor Franklin reports: “We have just completed a 90km road ride from Modina up into the mountains and the new Streetfighter 848 is indeed proving to be everything I thought it would be.  It is...

New Kawasaki ZX-10R for £5795. Did you put a deposit down?

New Kawasaki ZX-10R for £5795. Did you put a deposit down?

Did you put down a £500 deposit on a 2011 ZX-10R priced at just £5795? If so MCN would like to hear from you urgently The offer – run by Birmingham-based firm “Friends & Co Ltd” and advertised on Ebay...

Ducati Streetfighter 848 launch

Ducati Streetfighter 848 launch

Ducati is launching its new 848 Streetfighter at a brand new circuit in Italy this morning, and MCN’s Trevor Franklin is there. It’s a beautiful day there as it is here, and Trev’s looking forward to...

Triumph Tiger 1050 gets makeover

Triumph Tiger 1050 gets makeover

Triumph has given the Tiger 1050 a host of changes for 2012 including upgraded suspension, a sportier riding position and new graphics. The changes cover the 1050 and 1050SE models with the changes...

Video: 2012 Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade

Video: 2012 Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade

This is apparently the first official video of the new Honda Fireblade, seemingly intended for an American audience, that shows the bike in action and emphasises the details revealed by MCN, including...

Honda's new 700cc naked: how good is it going to be?

Honda's new 700cc naked: how good is it going to be?

Honda’s kicking the ball into the biggest open goal it can find launching a 77mpg 700cc parallel twin super scooter at the height of fuel price paranoia. But it’s not the version that will attract...

Ducati 1199 Panigale spied road testing

Ducati 1199 Panigale spied road testing

Ducati’s all-new 1199 Panigale superbike has been spotted carrying out final testing on the roads of Italy as the bike enters the final months before an official launch in November. The 1199 Panigale...

Video: 'Born from MotoGP' Ben Spies on the 2012 R1

Video: 'Born from MotoGP' Ben Spies on the 2012 R1

In an attempt to link the 2012 Yamaha R1, which now features six-stage traction control, to MotoGP, this video shows Ben Spies loading up a day-van and heading to a trackday. The revised YZF-R1, with...

Honda launches new 77mpg 700cc parallel twin family with Integra super-scoot

Honda launches new 77mpg 700cc parallel twin family with Integra super-scoot

This is the 2012 Honda Integra – a 700cc parallel-twin-engined production version of the Mid Concept super scooter shown last year. Pitching into the huge-selling TMAX market with a second-generation...

2012 Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade revealed

2012 Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade revealed

Honda’s new-for-2012 CBR1000RR Fireblade was officially shown to the world at simultaneous unveilings over the weekend, at the Imola round of WSB and Le Mans 24-Hour. Not surprisingly the bikes...

Bimota Special Two

Bimota Special Two

This design is similar to my Special One, design, and uses the same engine, but is in more of a cafe racer style.

Suzuki offers test rides at Stafford Motorcycle Show

Suzuki offers test rides at Stafford Motorcycle Show

Suzuki is offering the chance to test ride the current range of bikes at the Carole Nash Stafford Show on October 15 and 16. There will be opportunities to test ride the new V-Strom 650 ABS with many...

New MV Agusta Brutale R 1090 to hit dealerships this month

New MV Agusta Brutale R 1090 to hit dealerships this month

MV Augusta’s new Brutale R 1090 – offering the same capacity as the 1090RR but the budget pricing approach of the 920 – is heading to the UK. Priced at around £12,200, it will appear in UK dealerships...

Bimota Special One

Bimota Special One

Here’s a design of mine for a Bimota street bike, powered by an S&S V-twin engine. A real man’s bike!

Ducati 1199 Panigale's staggering power and weight figures leak

Ducati 1199 Panigale's staggering power and weight figures leak

The new Ducati 1199 Pangiale superbike boasts 195bhp and 176kg weight in road trim – WET. These are staggering figures from a 1200cc twin and go a long way toward justifying Ducati’s ditching of...

Ducati superbike revealed as ‘1199 Panigale’

Ducati superbike revealed as ‘1199 Panigale’

Ducati’s all-new superbike will be called the ‘1199 Panigale’ we can now officially reveal. The Italian factory confirmed the new bike’s name this morning and also revealed that the bike would NOT...

Ducati Diavel is MCN's Machine of the Year

Ducati Diavel is MCN's Machine of the Year

The rule-changing Ducati Diavel has scooped Machine of the Year in the prestigious 2011 MCN Awards. The awards were presented earlier this evening at a glittering dinner where the cream of the...

Bimota 1125 Bagarre concept

Bimota 1125 Bagarre concept

Here’s my concept idea for the Bimota 1125 Bagarre. Powered by 1125cc V-twin Rotax engine.

Yamaha Diversion 250 concept

Yamaha Diversion 250 concept

I’m a watch designer and love to sketch bikes in spare time. This is my concept for a Yamaha Diversion 250 for the asian markets. Stylish and lightweight the Diversion 250 fuses attributes of...

Guzzi to build new engine – and a new Mandello factory too

Guzzi to build new engine – and a new Mandello factory too

MCN’s executive editor Phil West is at the Moto Guzzi factory in Mandello, Italy, covering the company’s 90th anniversary celebrations. He’s just come out of a presentation by Roberto Colaninno – the...

New 1440cc Kawasaki ZZR1400 teaser video

New 1440cc Kawasaki ZZR1400 teaser video

A new official Kawasaki teaser video has been released which shows what the front of the new ZZR1400 will look like and also reveals capacity has increased to 1440cc. Kawasaki has already shown...

Triumph Tiger 800 gets the supermoto treatment

Triumph Tiger 800 gets the supermoto treatment

This supermoto version of Triumph’s Tiger 800 is the latest special to be built by Jack Lilley Triumph of Ashford, Middlesex. It started life as a standard, new Tiger 800 to which Lilley has added a...

New colours for 2012 Yamaha range

New colours for 2012 Yamaha range

Along with the new Yamaha YZF-R1 the firm is releasing a series of new colours including a World Grand Prix 50th Anniversary range and a new Series Grey colour option. The R1 is the only model in the...

Yamaha VZ8 Concept

Yamaha VZ8 Concept

Here’s my idea for an 800cc v-twin streetfighter-style bike from Yamaha to rival the upcoming Ducati Streetfighter 848.

New 2012 Yamaha YZF-R1 gets traction control

New 2012 Yamaha YZF-R1 gets traction control

This is the new 2012 Yamaha YZF-R1 which has six-stage traction control and a mid-life redesign. Images have leaked a few hours before Yamaha’s official announcement later today and MCN will bring...

Poll: Are 600s still relevant?

Poll: Are 600s still relevant?

Would you buy a new 600? Though MV and Triumph have developed new supersports bikes, the Japanese seem to have all but given up on the class, with only Kawasaki rumoured to be doing more than planning...

BMW unveils electric scooter

BMW unveils electric scooter

BMW has unveiled this new eScooter concept which for the first time promises performance and range that could make an electric scooter viable commuting transport. From the beginning of the eScooter...

Triumph's new R1200GS rival nears completion

Triumph's new R1200GS rival nears completion

This image is the best picture yet of the all-new Triumph Adventurer 1200. The inline three-cylinder adventure bike was spotted in production-ready trim undergoing final tests ahead of its November...