2025

Keeping cool under braking: Nissin and Showa partnership aims for more efficient caliper concepts

Keeping cool under braking: Nissin and Showa partnership aims for more efficient caliper concepts

Suspension heavyweights Showa are teaming up with brake experts Nissin to develop new, more efficient technologies for both systems.   Both companies are owned by Japanese automotive tech brand...

Advanced wheelie electronics on Triumph's Speed Triple 1200 RS turn you into a (safe) stunting hero

Advanced wheelie electronics on Triumph's Speed Triple 1200 RS turn you into a (safe) stunting hero

Triumph have launched a new Speed Triple 1200 RS for 2025. Priced at £17,495 on the road, it now makes a claimed 180.5bhp at 10,750rpm and 94.5lb.ft of torque at 8750rpm – and is gunning for this...

Italian brand Virus Power create synthetic racing suit meeting AAA status without using leather

Italian brand Virus Power create synthetic racing suit meeting AAA status without using leather

World Superbike rider, Scott Redding turned heads with news that for 2025 he will use a new race suit featuring no animal-based leather materials of any kind. The MGM Bonovo Racing Ducati rider...

Plant based lifestyle | Honda produce bodywork from non-edible corn in a bid to cut emissions

Plant based lifestyle | Honda produce bodywork from non-edible corn in a bid to cut emissions

Honda aren’t just betting on electric bikes to hit their ambitious 2050 carbon-neutrality target – they’re digging deeper and swapping out traditional bodywork for eco-friendly alternatives made from...

Adaptive aero used on Bimota’s KB998 Rimini could be the next big thing in superbikes

Adaptive aero used on Bimota’s KB998 Rimini could be the next big thing in superbikes

With the advent of the new Bimota KB998 Rimini, superbikes could be seeing the dawn of an aerodynamics revolution – with the bike featuring winglets that “are able to automatically maintain the...

The future of EV? Honda begins pilot production of all-solid-state batteries in Japan

The future of EV? Honda begins pilot production of all-solid-state batteries in Japan

A collection of unremarkable white factory buildings in Sakura, Japan, could house the key to Honda’s future – all-solid-state EV batteries. In January 2025, it comes to life as a demonstration...