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.

First ride: Thruxton 904 Ace Special

First ride: Thruxton 904 Ace Special

Few bikes tick the boxes in so many ways as Triumph‘s Thruxton. Its big, meaty air-cooled parallel twin-cylinder engine has chunky power all the way through the revs and it¹s as enjoyable purring...

Free luggage with the BMW R1200GS

Free luggage with the BMW R1200GS

Buy a new GS between 1 June and 30 September 2010 and you’ll get free panniers worth up to £665.   The incentive is to celebrate the GS’s 30th anniversary and applies to GS, GS Adventure and GS...

Test ride a Yamaha Super Ténéré for free at National BikeSafe Show

Test ride a Yamaha Super Ténéré for free at National BikeSafe Show

The brand new Yamaha Super Ténéré and FZ8 are just two of the models available for test ride at the National BikeSafe Motorcycle Show later this month. It will also be the first UK showing of the...

BMW C1-E Concept to make UK debut

BMW C1-E Concept to make UK debut

The BMW concept scooter, the C1-E, is to make its UK debut at the National BikeSafe Motorcycle Show this month. The C1-E concept is based on the existing C1, however the main difference is its...

GSX1250FA ST: Suzuki's new bargain sports tourer

GSX1250FA ST: Suzuki's new bargain sports tourer

This is Suzuki’s brand new GSX1250FA ST – a luggage-equipped version of the GSX1250FA launched earlier this year.    Video: Suzuki GSX1250F v CBF1000GT v VFR1200 v FZ1 Fazer Priced £7499, or just...

New Honda Sabre

New Honda Sabre

This is the brand new Honda Sabre 1300 cruiser – proof that the firm’s new, more extreme chopper styling, as pioneered on last year’s Fury, is no one-off. The US-only model – revealed in full in next...

New CBF1000F will cost around £9000

New CBF1000F will cost around £9000

Honda has revealed that the new CBF1000F will cost in the region of £9000 when it goes on sale in the autumn. The updated, alloy-framed CBF is a late addition to Honda UK’s range – initially the bike...

Kawasaki 2011 MX models announced – lean green and very mean

Kawasaki 2011 MX models announced – lean green and very mean

Kawasaki has released details on its 2011 four-stroke KX250F (MX2) and KX450F (MX1) motocross models. The new KX250F will, for the first time, use battery-less fuel injection, a system successfully...

Multistrada racer unveiled

Multistrada racer unveiled

Is this the first race-prepped Ducati Multistrada? Sponsored by Spider Grips, it’s been built by American dealers Ducati Newport Beach to take on the legendary Pikes Peak International Hill...

New Husqvarna TE 125 is go-anywhere teen dream

New Husqvarna TE 125 is go-anywhere teen dream

Sister bike to Husqvarna’s new 125 supermoto is this credible looking beginner’s enduro bike, the TE125. Costing £100 less at £3495 the fully road-legal TE uses the same liquid-cooled 15bhp motor,...

New Husqvarna SMS4 125 is pukka first supermoto

New Husqvarna SMS4 125 is pukka first supermoto

Husqvarna has launched a new 125 supermoto with race-bred looks and surprisingly high spec components in a package as aggressive-looking as one of the firm’s chainsaws. The SMS4 125 pumps out the...

Suzuki SV650S returns at under £5000

Suzuki SV650S returns at under £5000

Suzuki GB has re-introduced the popular SV650S at a price of just £4999. For long a best-seller in the novice-friendly, middleweight class, the half-faired V-twin was superceded last year by a...

KTM launch new KTM 350 SX-F

KTM launch new KTM 350 SX-F

We’re out in the hills an hour north of Valencia to try one of the most important machines in KTM’s recent history.  Find a KTM for sale With the company recovering from the fallout from the credit...

Where the Triumph Sprint GT fits in with the competition

Where the Triumph Sprint GT fits in with the competition

The new Triumph Sprint GT has more power and torque than the old ST, and will be one of the best value tourers on the market when it goes on sale in two weeks’ time. Essentially a touring version of...

Free Akrapovic exhausts with new Yamaha R1

Free Akrapovic exhausts with new Yamaha R1

A free set of Akrapovic replacement sport exhaust silencers is the latest Yamaha inducement to buy a new 2009/2010 Yamaha R1 from over 55 official Yamaha dealers. Slovenia’s finest carbon-clad and...

Ducati Desmotracker 450

Ducati Desmotracker 450

Another model that will enter in the new range of single cylinder Ducatis. The Desmotracker 450.

Poll: Are hyperbikes still relevant today?

Poll: Are hyperbikes still relevant today?

It’s 20 years since the launch of the first ‘hyperbike’ – Kawasaki’s awesome 173mph ZZ-R1100 which reigned world’s fastest production bike through the first half of the 1990s until usurped by new...

Yamaha R1 replicas to be delivered by Rossi, Lorenzo & Spies

Yamaha R1 replicas to be delivered by Rossi, Lorenzo & Spies

Four very special MotoGP-rep R1s have been offered for sale by Yamaha France and immediately snapped up by buyers. And no wonder: at €16,990 they’re only a grand more than standard, look awesome...

'Fake' Bimota HB4 track day bike is real

'Fake' Bimota HB4 track day bike is real

Rumours of a semi-official track-day-only HB4 costing a whopping £146,500 circulated last month after an advert for just such a bike was posted on a German website. Bimota was quick to dismiss the ad...

KTM RC4 - it lives!

KTM RC4 - it lives!

Rumours of a rebirth of the serious small-capacity sportsbike led by KTM have circulated for ages, and we’re glad to see they’re well founded. Sort of. Sadly it’s not the longed-for official RC4 they...

The Hypermotard-engined Ducati flat-tracker that took historic win

The Hypermotard-engined Ducati flat-tracker that took historic win

This is the Ducati that took a historic and unwelcome win against a field of Harley-engined flat trackers – the first twin-cylinder flat track race in almost two decades that the XR750 Harley has...

Test ride any Kawasaki at the BMF Show

Test ride any Kawasaki at the BMF Show

Kawasaki is launching a new nationwide test riding roadshow at this weekend’s BMF Show in Peterborough with the entire 2010 range available to ride. A Kawasaki spokesman said: “Recognising that no...

DUCATI DESMOSCRAMBLER 450

DUCATI DESMOSCRAMBLER 450

DUCATI DESMOSCRAMBLER 450. The (true) SCRAMBLER is back!

Bespoke BMW S1000RR track bikes from BMW Park Lane

Bespoke BMW S1000RR track bikes from BMW Park Lane

BMW’s magnificent S1000RR has already proved itself to be the most powerful and technologically-advanced superbike money can buy. It’s turned the sports bike world on its head. Now dealers BMW Park...

BMW officially denies S600RR on the way

BMW officially denies S600RR on the way

BMW has officially denied the existence or development of a 600cc sportsbike to run alongside the all-conquering S1000RR released this year. The denial has come about after it emerged that BMW owns...

Aprilia months from launching 750cc and 1200cc Tuareg adventure bikes

Aprilia months from launching 750cc and 1200cc Tuareg adventure bikes

Aprilia will enter the adventure bike segment with all new 750cc and 1200cc V-twin bikes that will be shown at the Milan Show in November – a story confirmed by the Australian Aprilia...

Ducati Desmotard concept

Ducati Desmotard concept

This is my design for the Ducati Desmotard, the second model of the new Desmo Mono range.

Ducati Desmocross concept

Ducati Desmocross concept

Here’s my concept for a new generation of single cylinder off-road bikes for Ducati!

New Benelli Cafe Racer 899 lands in UK

New Benelli Cafe Racer 899 lands in UK

Benelli’s new Café Racer 899 is arriving at UK dealers now. The new 899cc model has cafe racer looks with a power output of 120bhp from the three cylinder liquid-cooled engine. The engine has a new...

New Triumph specials from Italy

New Triumph specials from Italy

These three new specials based on the current Triumph Bonneville have just been launched, costing around £11,000. The bikes, Bonneville Six Days, Goldenboy and Bullitt, have been created by...

New Rieju MRT50 Competition arrives in UK

New Rieju MRT50 Competition arrives in UK

Spanish firm Rieju is bringing a road legal 50cc endurance racer to the UK which will cost £3499. The bike may only be a 50cc machine but it’s packing some top-specification components based around a...

Triumph Thunderbird gets hot-rodded

Triumph Thunderbird gets hot-rodded

In standard trim the Triumph Thunderbird has a grunty 1597cc parallel twin-cylinder engine, beautiful steering and solid stability. Next week in MCN we reveal a Thunderbird that’s like that, but more...

Ducati Multistrada 1200S: Used alternatives under £4k

Ducati Multistrada 1200S: Used alternatives under £4k

The new Ducati Multistrada 1200S looks set to redifine the adventure bike market with its four switchable modes (sport, touring, urban and enduro), which adjust power delivery, suspension and traction...

80mpg and 140bhp from new concept hybrid

80mpg and 140bhp from new concept hybrid

This new concept bike by Russian Igor Chack, 26, is the latest in a line of innovative ideas based on hybrid power – where electric motors are used alongside petrol engines. The Izh-1 was inspired by...

2010 Aprilia Shiver 750 - tech specs revealed

2010 Aprilia Shiver 750 - tech specs revealed

Aprilia has revealed full tech specs for the 2010 Shiver 750 which is set to cost £6,199 when it goes on sale in May. Find an Aprilia Shiver 750 for sale As MCN’s story back in November revealed,...

Confederate Satan's Whiff 66

Confederate Satan's Whiff 66

This is a proposal for Confederate Satan’s Whiff 66, which I have designed.