Shoot-outs

Two V4 giants get into a street brawl

Without a doubt, the biggest news in the sportbike scene for 2018 is Ducati’s

Honda CBR500R vs. Kawasaki Ninja 400 vs. KTM RC390

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.

How much performance are we giving up to gain Super Fly ’70s style?

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

Sport-Touring three ways: Twin, Triple, Four

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

We compare two new 800cc-ish sport-adventure Triples in the Triumph Tiger 800 XRx and the Yamaha FJ-09.

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.