New colors for the 2013 Honda CBR250R

For 2013, the Honda CBR250R is mechanically unaltered, but gains four handsome new colors. Plain black and plain red look classy, the tri-color looks racy and, for the legions of teenage MotoGP fans in America (we’re assuming there’s still one … Continued

Honda NC700X: the Swiss Army Knife of bikes?

Not sure if you know this about me yet, but I’m a knife nerd. Blame a youth misspent causing trouble in the outdoors. So, when they called this new Honda NC700X adventure-style, automatic-transmission equipped, half-a-car-engine thing “the Swiss Army Knife … Continued

RideApart 12 – The Born Free 4 show

Choppers, bobbers, rat-bikes, vintage cafe racers and every kind of wild oddity in between, nobody does American custom hot-rod culture for bikes on the West Coast like the annual Born Free show in Irvine, Ca. Our man Jamie Robinson wades … Continued

Watch a Honda Hornet bungee jump

Taking a motorcycle bungee jumping isn’t just a case of strapping on a couple more strands of elastic. Both rider and bike have to be equally, but separately suspended and must achieve equal deceleration rates. The bike must then be … Continued

This tiny hole made 230hp possible

This tiny hole on the side of Casey Stoner’s 2011 Honda RC212V can’t be terribly important, can it? Turns out it was absolutely essential. Why? It cooled the electronics that provided traction control and managed power delivery to stretch just … Continued

RideApart 10 – The perfect vehicle for the city

America loves everything BIG. Big houses, big cars, big steaks and obviously big motorcycles. But, riding in dense urban traffic, those bigger bikes make navigating difficult, cumbersome and downright frustrating for even the most experienced bikers, much less beginners. We … Continued

The friendliest face of motorcycling

“Hey look, it’s a grown man on a 50cc scooter!” Laugh all you want, but this grown man is getting 117mpg, parking anywhere he wants, carrying his laptop under the seat and cutting through traffic, all for $1,999. If transportation … Continued