Boxer Meets Bobber: Lord Drake Kustoms’ BMW R Springer Chrome
An enlarged boxer engine, bespoke suspension and acres of polished metal turn a classic BMW R90 into a custom built for a closer look.
Some motorcycles draw you in with their silhouette. Others make you stop for the details. The BMW R Springer “Chrome” does both.
Built by Spain’s Lord Drake...
Honda’s 2027 Fireblade Makes Chassis Feel the Story
A redesigned frame, revised intake system and new HRC Works Edition give Honda’s superbike a fresh track-day brief.
The most useful superbike updates are not always the ones that produce the largest headline number. For a rider trying to brake consistently, hold a line and accelerate cleanly, feedback can...
Yamaha’s RW700 brings motorcycle gears to the adventure scooter
Yamaha’s new crossover combines a 689 cc twin, automatic or rider-controlled shifting, and rough-road hardware. Its appeal for Gulf riders could extend well beyond commuting.
Yamaha’s new RW700 brings motorcycle hardware to a package built around scooter convenience. For Gulf riders, that combination could make it an intriguing option for journeys that stretch beyond...
The new Triumph Tiger 1200 makes its case for Gulf touring
Radar assistance and a lower stance at stops give GCC riders plenty to consider — while regional launch details remain unconfirmed.
The most interesting question about Triumph’s new Tiger 1200 is how easily it could fit into a Gulf rider’s weekend. Think of leaving Dubai before sunrise, covering the...
BMW F 450 R: Small Bike, Big Plans for Your Weekend
Not every great Friday morning ride needs a litre bike. BMW’s new F 450 R brings a tempting alternative: a compact naked with twin-cylinder power, approachable dimensions and enough equipment to make bigger-bike owners look twice.
Sharing its engine platform with the F 450 GS, the new roadster swaps the adventure brief for tarmac...
KTM’s 690 Rally Has the Gulf’s Winter Riding Season Written All Over It
Some motorcycles make you plan a coffee stop. This one makes you look for where the tarmac ends.
KTM’s new 2027 690 Rally takes the 690 Enduro R platform and adds the equipment that makes longer off-road journeys more tempting: a rally tower, a windscreen and approximately 20 litres of fuel capacity. KTM positions...
Aston Martin’s AMB 002 Roadster: Only 300 Built, Finally Made for the Road
An Aston Martin for the Sunday morning ride? Now we’re talking.
After two track-only motorcycles, Aston Martin and Brough Superior have unveiled the AMB 002 Roadster, their first road-legal collaboration. Just 300 examples will be built worldwide—and this time, the destination can include a coffee stop rather than a pit lane.
Honda × Onitsuka Tiger: When Two Japanese Icons Decide to Build a Motorcycle
Honda has made plenty of motorcycles that belong on a racetrack. This one made its debut on a runway.
At Milan Fashion Week, Honda and Onitsuka Tiger revealed the Onitsuka Tiger Honda Mid Sports Concept — a sharp, yellow-and-black sports bike created to mark the beginning of an unlikely but surprisingly natural collaboration between...
Ducati Desmo450 SM: Ducati’s Supermoto Racer Has the Gulf Written All Over It
Ducati has officially entered the supermoto game — and it hasn't done it with a road bike wearing smaller wheels.
The new Desmo450 SM is Ducati's first purpose-built racing Supermotard, a 63.5-hp, 109kg competition machine derived from the Desmo450 MX and designed specifically for the tight corners, brutal braking and sideways riding that define...
Indian Motorcycle Turns 125 — And Celebrates With Some Seriously Special Machines
125 years after Indian Motorcycle first appeared in 1901, the American brand is celebrating the milestone the way motorcycle people would want it to: with motorcycles.
Indian's 125th Anniversary Collection takes three of its most recognisable machines — the Scout Bobber, Chief Vintage and Challenger — and gives them individually numbered, painstakingly hand-painted anniversary...
Stark VARG EX: The Electric Enduro That Makes 80 HP Look Like the Least Interesting Part
The Stark VARG EX produces up to 80 horsepower, more than 1,000 Nm of claimed rear-wheel torque and does it without a clutch, gearbox or even the possibility of stalling.
And strangely, those aren't the most interesting things about it.
The EX is Stark Future's enduro-focused version of the VARG platform,...
Harley-Davidson Deadwood: The Sturgis-Born Black Sheep GCC Riders Can’t Buy Yet
Harley-Davidson has taken a Heritage-flavoured Softail, stripped away the luggage, dropped it closer to the ground, painted almost everything black and given it a name straight out of the Wild West.
Meet the 2026 Harley-Davidson Deadwood — possibly one of the simplest-looking motorcycles Harley has launched in years, and arguably one of the most...
Riders Choice Wants to Make Motorcycle Life in Dubai Easier — Whether You Own a Bike or Not
Motorcycling in the UAE has always had one slightly unusual characteristic: plenty of people love motorcycles, but not everyone wants — or needs — to own one.
Some riders have a bike sitting in the garage that needs looking after through Dubai’s long summer. Others live here but only ride during the cooler months....
Norton Manx R Wins the Kind of Design Award Superbikes Rarely Get — and the GCC Should Pay Attention
Superbikes normally collect trophies for lap times, race wins and horsepower figures. Industrial design awards? Not quite as often.
Which makes the latest accolade for the Norton Manx R rather interesting.
Norton’s new V4 flagship has picked up a Bronze award at the 2026 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) in the...
CFMOTO 450MT: A Smart Gateway Into GCC Adventure Riding
Late August in the Gulf is still very much summer, but motorcycle riders know what is coming. Give it a few more weeks and the early-morning rides get longer, the mountain routes start calling again, and garages across the UAE begin waking up from their annual heat-induced hibernation.
For adventure riders, that means Hajar...
6D MAX Goggle Wants to Reinvent Off-Road Vision — And the Middle East Might Be Its Perfect Test
Motorcycle goggles are one of those pieces of riding equipment that nobody really questions.
Foam against your face. Strap around the helmet. Lens in front. Done.
That basic recipe has survived decades of motocross, enduro and desert abuse with remarkably little fundamental change. But 6D Helmets — a company already known...
Gas Monkey Built an Electric Chopper — and Somehow It Works
LiveWire handed Richard Rawlings an S2 Alpinista. Gas Monkey Garage gave it 1970s chopper attitude, zero exhaust pipes and one very uncomfortable question for the purists.
There are certain things motorcycling has taught us not to question.
Italian bikes should be dramatic. Adventure bikes should eventually get dirty. And a...
Suzuki V-STROM 800DE: The Middleweight ADV That Makes a Lot of Sense in the Middle East
There is a point where an adventure bike stops needing more horsepower and starts needing the right kind of horsepower.
The Suzuki V-STROM 800DE may be sitting in one of the most competitive corners of the motorcycle market, but a recent hard-use test by MotorcycleDaily suggests Suzuki has got that balance remarkably close.
Zero XE and XB Go Dark: New Black Bodywork Kits Give the X Line a Sharper Edge
Sometimes a bike doesn’t need more horsepower, more range or another riding mode. Sometimes it just needs to look meaner.
That appears to be the thinking behind Zero Motorcycles’ latest addition to its X Line accessory catalogue: new black bodywork kits for the Zero XE and XB, giving the brand’s compact electric off-roaders a...
2026 Harley-Davidson CVO: Factory Custom Gets Faster, Sharper — and the UAE Gets a Taste
Five limited-production motorcycles, two very different personalities, and some serious King of the Baggers attitude. Harley-Davidson’s 2026 CVO range may be its most ambitious factory-custom lineup yet.
There are Harleys, and then there are CVO Harleys.
For more than a quarter of a century, Harley-Davidson’s Custom Vehicle Operations program has occupied...