Shoot-outs

The Ducati Hypermotard 950 SP and KTM 690 SMC R prove there’s more than one way to skin a cat

Head-to-head on the Aprilia RSV4 1100 Factory, BMW S1000RR M, Ducati V4 S Corse, Honda CBR1000RR SP, Kawasaki ZX-10RR, Suzuki GSX-R1000R, and Yamaha R1M

Two V4 giants get into a street brawl

KTM has changed the way we look at small-displacement

A timeless favorite goes up against a brash newcomer in the standard bike wars

It didn’t take long to find what would appear to be a worthy contender to the KTM 390 Duke. Enter BMW’s new G 310 R.

Bruiser cruisers: the name pretty much says it all. These bikes combine the best performance that cruisers offer and wrap it in a package dripping with attitude to spare.

The MO staff heads into the American Southwest in search of ghost towns.

Each of these urban sport cruisers is a winner if it’s the one sitting in your garage

Two six-bangers bag it to Calistoga and back. There can be only one winner.

The Big Dam Tour was originally conceived as a multi-day moto-carouse way up to Northern California, where we’d swoop by a few of the state’s many

Typically, when we perform a comparison test, we select bikes in the same category to see which one works best. This time, however, we’re approaching

We picked the bikes. You pick the winner.

The successor to one of our favorite sport-tourers, the 2019 BMW R1250RT faces a new challenger in the now teched-up Kawasaki Versys 1000 LT SE+.

Sport-Touring three ways: Twin, Triple, Four

If there’s one thing we learned during our 2018 450cc motocross shootout, it’s this: no bike is ever perfect for everyone.

Six 450cc dirtbikes battle it out for motocross supremacy. See who is delivering the goods in our 2017 450cc MX class shootout.

The Adventure-Touring segment faces new challengers from Ducati, Honda and Triumph

Nine bikes, six days and 2,000 miles are the key ingredients for our 2015 Ultimate Sport-Touring Adventure Shootout.

Both bikes adhere to, and extoll the values of, their predecessors, but which is the better Scrambler?

The updated Honda PCX and the new Yamaha SMAX go head-to-head to see which is the better 150cc scooter

Two radically different visions of scooters in the form of the Honda NM4 and the Yamaha TMAX, representing the different design intents of maxi-scooterdom

It really is a fine line between open-minded and cheap, hip and hopeless, trending and tanking.

We pit a trio of motorcycles, none of which is equipped with a clutch lever, against each other for a no-shift shootout.

Laugh if you want, but when it comes to practical, comfortable and fun two-wheeled transportation, scooters hit the mark.

Monumental! That’s what this is. MO’s first electric vs. gas, head-to-head supermoto comparison.