December 6, 2020
Shooting for Us All: Shane Balkowitsch
A photograph of wet plate photographer Paul d'Orleans at work led to a new...
December 4, 2020
Serial 1 E-Bike: Harley-Davidson’s Past and Present
Can Harley-Davidson's new e-bike division, Serial 1, give the Motor Co a way out...
October 19, 2020
The Current News: Spanish Classic Magic
PURSANG is transitioning from IC to electric designs, and honors the long...
October 5, 2020
Elektrafuture 2020
The world's first electric motocross series was pulled off right in the heart of...
September 29, 2020
Phil Irving’s ‘Other’ Twin: the Velocette Model O
Phil Irving co-designed the legendary Vincent V-twin: he also designed a...
September 12, 2020
The Current News: Concept Z
Ed Motorcycles is balancing flat track style with new tech action, in a bid to...
August 1, 2020
Double Trouble: the CoVel Story
Hedley Cox built a twinned Velocette KTT engine for the Isle of Man TT in 1951,...
May 31, 2020
John Wallace and the Duzmo
At 14, he knew he'd build motorcycles - and he did! On the way he worked with...
May 27, 2020
8 Valves for the Road
Hot stuff! Designers and special builders have explored the power potential of...
May 17, 2020
Quarantine Cinema 6: The Dystopian Future
The films of QC6 might make you want to stay home, forever! It's a big scary...
May 17, 2020
The Vintagent Archive: ‘Shilling in the Slot!’
This 1936 story from 'The Motor Cycle' magazine predicts the British industry 50...
February 19, 2020
The Current News: February Edition
Our EV Editor Sophia Vassiliadis tells it like it is: bikes and trikes from...
February 19, 2020
From Russia With Love
In the 1970s, Norton-Villiers-Triumph developed plans for a factory in the...
January 21, 2020
Rags to Riches – The Bullet Story
The longest production run of any motorcycle model, from the worlds oldest...
January 16, 2020
World’s Oldest Ebike Dealer: Hollywood Electrics Turns 10
The world's oldest electric motorcycle dealership is in LA, and Hollywood...
December 31, 2019
The Current News: New Year Edition!
Sophia Vassiliadis notes there's a lot going on in the electric motorcycle...
December 8, 2019
The Current News: Dec 8, 2019
Our EV Editor Sophia Vassiliadis covers the hottest motorcycle segment in the...
November 26, 2019
The Current News: Nov. 26 2019
This week - an amazing hybrid kit for Ducati's Panigale gives 300hp! Segway make...
November 19, 2019
Current News: Nov. 19, 2019
It's been a huge week in the EV world, with superb new designs from Pierre...
November 13, 2019
The Current News: Nov. 13, 2019
At EICMA, every motorcycle manufacturer shows its prototypes and next-year...
November 4, 2019
The Current News: Nov. 3 2019
EV writer Sophia Vasiliadis gives us this week: Cobras, Kymcos, hubless...
October 27, 2019
The Current News: Oct 27, 2019
Our new EV Editor Sophia Vassiliadis covers Mahindra's purchase of Peugeot,...
October 17, 2019
The Current News: Oct 17, 2019
A week of halted progress for Harley-Davidson's Livewire and Arc, but...
October 5, 2019
The Most Radical Vincent on the Planet?
A long a poignant path to bring a 112hp Egli-Vincent back to life, with a...
July 9, 2019
The Current News: July 5th 2019
The best-preserved 19th Century electric car, and the baddest 2019 electric...
July 4, 2019
Zero at Pike’s Peak 2019
After 13 years, Zero digs in to the most hotly contested American road race, the...
July 4, 2019
Where are the Hybrid Motorcycles?
Hybrids of internal combustion motors and electric motors are successful in...
June 28, 2019
The Current News: June 28 2019
This week: BMW brings the badass! Plus vintage Vespa conversions, and India...
June 20, 2019
The Original Triple: DKW’s ‘Singing Saw’ –
It was so loud they nicknamed it 'the chainsaw', but it was also wicked fast,...
June 19, 2019
The Current News: June 20
The 5-Minute Charge is here! The revolution in battery technology is not about...
May 28, 2019
The Current News: May 29
We follow electric two-wheeler news around the world in Tim Huber's weekly...
May 27, 2019
Vintage Revival Montlhéry 2019: Just the Motors
For the technically-minded, the years before 1940 had the greatest variety of...
May 22, 2019
The Current News: May 22
Tim Huber follows the the e-bike news from around the world, for our weekly...
March 7, 2019
The Current: Talking Tech With Energica CTO Giampiero Testoni
Can autonomous vehicle systems increase motorcycle safety? Energica has been...
December 28, 2018
The Current: Saroléa Melds Google AI Into MANX7
To gain mass data collection for true AI responsiveness, Belgian e-bike maker...
December 14, 2018
The Current: Fly Free Introduces Classic and Desert E-Bikes
Fly Free is a new California e-Bike manufacturer aiming at the ultra-hip with...
December 6, 2018
The Current: The Copenhagen Wheel – An Instant E-Bike
The Copenhagen Wheel will transform your bicycle with an ingeniously simple...
November 28, 2018
The Current: Eva Håkansson’s Quest to Break 400 mph With Green Envy
Will Eva Håkansson become the fastest woman in history an electric motorcycle,...
November 26, 2018
The Vintagent Archive: “A Two-Wheeled Steed” (1869)
From the first year of pedal-cycle mass-production, and 1869 account of the joys...
November 21, 2018
The Current: BigRep 3D Prints NERA E-Moto
BigRep's 3D-printed Nera E- Moto begs the question: will the dawn of additive...
November 14, 2018
The Current: Cake Making Waves
Sweden’s Cake is sweeping design and innovation awards by inventing a new...
November 7, 2018
Are Waymo Smarts Needed to Protect Motorcyclists?
A Waymo driverless van struck a motorcycle in its hometown of Mountain View,...
October 25, 2018
The Current: Zero Ramps Up, Alta Shuts Down
It was a busy week: Zero introduced its revamped 2019 line, while Alta closed it...
October 19, 2018
The Mighty MFK: the Giant’s Fist
In the late 1940s, German racers had to make their own: this MFK...
October 15, 2018
The Current: Tarform Electric Motorcycle Blends Swedish And American Design
Swedish and American designers teamed up to create the Tarform electric...
October 5, 2018
The Current: Alta Grabs First Electric AMA Pro National Podium
It's finally happened: the Alta Redshift is the first electric-powered...
September 26, 2018
The Current: Audi Enters the Electric Age With E-Tron SUV
Audi debuted its first all-electric fast-charging e-tron SUV in San Francisco,...
September 7, 2018
The Current: From Russia, With E-Love
Kalashnikov, Russia's famous arms manufacturer, debuts a series of electric...
August 28, 2018
The Current: Here Comes Vespa’s Elettrica e-Scooter!
Finally, Vespa enters the electric scooter market with the new Elletrica model,...
August 24, 2018
The Early History of Indian, Part 1: George M. Hendee, Bicycle Race Legend
George M Hendee was a champion bicycle racer, who later manufactured bicycles...
August 23, 2018
The Current: Mike Corbin, E-Bike Pioneer
Mike Corbin built electric motorcycles since the 1970s, and held the electric...
August 6, 2018
The Current: Egads! An Electric Surfboard?
Electric surfboards are the next big thing: this Swedish model from Awake Boards...
July 31, 2018
The Current: Harley-Davidson Going E-Big in 2019 and Beyond
Harley-Davidson reveals plans to mass-market their Livewire electric model, and...
July 26, 2018
The Current: Are Tilting Electric Vehicles The Future?
Peugeot thinks tilting vehicles are the future, and puts its money (and patents)...
July 21, 2018
The Current: Saroléa Introduces Limited Edition MANX7
Belgian electric motorcycle builder Saroléa builds a limited edition electric...
July 13, 2018
The Current: Exclusive Interview With Zero CEO Sam Paschel
Zero is a stable, industry leading e-Moto company, and we ask its CEO what's...
July 3, 2018
The Current: Ethec’s 250-Mile Range E-Cruiser
A team of 16 Swiss university students might have designed the future of...
June 27, 2018
The Current: E-Volkswagen Crushes Pikes Peak Record
The Pike's Peak Hillclimb is a unique and historic race, and for the second time...
June 20, 2018
The Current: How Moto3 Opened The Door For NEXT Electric
NEXT is an electric scooter startup, grown from an international design...
June 15, 2018
Indians for the European Grand Prix
Indian developed special racers based on the European model to bolster their...
June 11, 2018
The Current: Experiencing Kando with Yamaha’s MOTOROiD
Yamaha's Motoroid mixes Artificial intelligence with human pleasure on two...
June 7, 2018
The Current: Exclusive! Gloria Factory of Paris
Jambon-Beurre Motorcycles is now Gloria Factory
June 2, 2018
The Current: Jambon-Beurre – Avec L’amour Des Français
For maximum fun, an 100hp electric flat-tracker is hard to beat! Jambon-Buerre...
May 30, 2018
Stolen Glory: Zenith, OEC, and the 1930 World Speed Record
In 1930, the motorcycle World Speed Record was a close contest between BMW,...
May 24, 2018
The Current: KTM Goes Silent With Freeride E-XC
When Austria's Big Orange goes green, silent dirt biking gets a little more...
May 23, 2018
Motosacoche and the Brothers Dufaux
The Dufaux brothers were pioneers of aviation, and founded a very successful...
May 18, 2018
The Current: FEDDZ e-Bike
The FEDDZ e-Bike is designed from first principles, with many clever features,...
May 9, 2018
A Vintage Triumph That Never Was
Alp Sungurtekin is a dry-lakes racing legend, and built a vintage-style Triumph...
May 9, 2018
The Current: Curtiss Unveils The Mighty Zeus
The future of e-Bikes has arrived from Alabama, from Curtiss Motorcycles,...
May 3, 2018
The Current: Silicon Valley On An Energica Esse Esse 9
How does it feel to ride an electric sportbike made in the Ferrari homeland of...
April 25, 2018
The Current: Talking Conversion With Night Shift’s Matt Candler
Night Shift is poaching golf carts and Nissan Leaf parts, and rethinking how...
April 18, 2018
The Current: Wannabe AlSi9Mg E-Chopper
The Wannabe electric chopper removes the V-twin but keeps the vroom!
April 12, 2018
The Current: Hard Wired With Lawrence Au
The future of motorcycling may reside in the brain of Lawrence Au, with patents...
April 4, 2018
The Current: Curtiss E-Bike Concepts
The future of sleek quiet speed from Curtiss Motorcycles
April 3, 2018
The Motorcycle is 200 Years Old Today?
Was the motorcycle first demonstrated on April 3rd, 1818?
March 23, 2018
The Current: Meijs M-M-Motorman E-Moped!
A fashionable green Dutch commuter machine from Maastricht, the land of mopeds!
March 11, 2018
The Current: Alta Motors Crapshoot Dragster
Alta’s diminutive retro futuristic period piece, an electric dragster from the...
March 6, 2018
100 Years Ago: Inside the Indian Factory in 1918
The USA was a very different place before joining World War 1 in 1917; it was...
February 28, 2018
The Current: Harley Bets On Alta
Milwaukee and San Francisco join hands to develop e-bikes.
February 27, 2018
The Ride: Retro-Future Sci-Fi – the Bandit9 L-Concept
A lover of sci-fi, Daryl Villanueva of Bandit9 looks back in time to create a...
February 26, 2018
Velocettes at Montlhéry: 24 Hours at 100mph
It's a record that's never been beaten: a 500cc motorcycle doing 100mph for 24...
February 23, 2018
The Current: SURU – the New Cub?
Motorcycle designer Michael Uhlarik fell in love with electric bikes in 2007,...
February 18, 2018
The Current: Harley-Davidson – ‘E-Bike in 18 Months’
Harley-Davidson announced an investment of $25-50Million/year in electric...
February 14, 2018
The Current: Vessla e-Scooter Bans Uselessness
Vessla founder and CEO Rickard Bröms couldn’t find a decent electric scooter...
February 13, 2018
Whence Came the Swingarm Frame?
Modern motorcycle suspension was invented by an eccentric, dry-humored...
February 8, 2018
The Current: A New Era for MotoGP
A new day has dawned for MotoGP, as the inaugural e-bike World Cup was...
February 1, 2018
The Current: Bellissima Italian Volt!
Italian friends Nicola Colombo and Valerio Fumagalli founded Italian Volt after...
January 30, 2018
Road Test: 1923 Ner-A-Car
The Ner-A-Car was the most successful hub-center steered motorcycle in history;...
January 25, 2018
The Current: Swedish Cake Serves Up Kalk
Swedish design team Cake come up with a high-design off-road e-moto that looks...
January 18, 2018
The Current: German (e-)Drive, Italian Flair
How a Master’s thesis led to the development of an elegant German-made...
January 2, 2018
The Current: Martin Hulin of Essence Motocycles
Would you buy a custom electric motorcycle with 200 km of range and 200 kmh of...
December 26, 2017
Vespa Streamliners
In the 1950s, fierce competition between Vespa and Lambretta created an 'arms...
December 20, 2017
The Current: E-MTB With Hall of Famer Joe Murray
Mountain Bike Hall of Famer Joe Murray plays an important role in developing...
December 13, 2017
The Current: Moto-E World Cup To Race Energica Egos
MotoGP gets a new category in 2019, the Moto-e World Cup, with bikes provided by...
December 11, 2017
The Ride: Speedway Superstar
Ehinger Kraftrad’s remarkable ‘Speedster’; history through a hi-tech lens....
December 10, 2017
The Current: HPC Revolution
Hi-Power Cycles have launched a 60mph E-Bike. Technically, that's a motorcycle,...
December 4, 2017
The Current: Livio Suppo – From MotoGP to eMTB
An exclusive and candid conversation with former Repsol HRC MotoGP team...