We took the Duo and V50 out around Italy to give them some proper seat time. Along for the ride was our youngest recruit as a 2-up pillion passenger. At seven years old, he offered roughly the kind of additional weight that the Duo was designed to carry.
The new Street Scramble joins RGNT’s Street series with chunkier tyres and a more rugged look, while a new 6 kW onboard charger and RGNT Performance Components give existing and new bikes some extra options.
The ScrAmper S1 is a €10,000 e-moto from Ukrainian company Tornado Power, with a 9 kWh battery, up to 20 kW of peak power and a proper four-speed gearbox. Whether its needed or not, there's an obvious question worth asking... Why bother?
The Evoke 6061-GT is a power cruiser that takes the electric motorcycle formula to some serious extremes. Its huge 29.8 kWh battery sits inside an aerospace aluminium exo-frame, while a 90 kW motor gives the 320 kg machine a claimed 230 km/h top speed.
Trevor Motorcycles is now delivering the first DTRe Vince motorcycles, giving us a chance to see what the company learned from the Stella, and whether it matters when you're looking for seat time on the new bike.
The bikes actually shifting volume are largely the affordable, practical commuters. Bikes that solve a problem for riders. Now Evoke is going straight after that market with the new Nrgy 6 and 8.
Forget the lecture hall. Forget the dissertation. You can spend a year designing, building and testing a real racing motorcycle, then take it to a circuit and race it against teams from around the world. All while studying a course completely unrelated to engineering.
Ather has launched the Konarc. Behind this £1,000-ish commuter scooter is a development process built around real-world riding data, extensive testing and a lot of work before it reaches the showroom.
How how far can an electric motorcycle actually go? That depends on how the bike is tested, how fast you're riding and how much work you're asking the battery to do. We all know the game by now: big range number on the brochure, smaller number once you hand over your hard-earned cash and start riding the thing. The reason it keeps happening comes down to how electric two-wheelers are tested, and the maths gets pretty ugly once you leave the gentle, controlled world of the tes
