Concept Motorcycles

Suzuki is ready to step back on the dance floor and boogie with a brand new GSX-R1000, built from the ground up to put the Big Gixxer back in contention at the pointy end of the sportsbike market.

​Honda's European design team has produced a couple of tasty concepts for EICMA Milan. Using the CB650F naked bike as a starting point, meet two very European looking customs that wouldn't look out of place with an Aprilia or Husqvarna logo on the tank.​

Kawasaki offered a glimpse of it's future supercharged bike line-up at the Tokyo Motor Show when it showed a sketch of the Spirit Charger Concept, a softer version of the 200 hp Ninja H2, plus a newly-developed version of it's supercharged engine aimed at increasing efficiency and fuel economy.

At the touch of a button Gibbs amphibious motorcycles convert to jet skis and switch to jet propulsion. The switch from road mode to water mode is done in less than 5 seconds.

With the 44th Tokyo Motor Show coming in two weeks' time, Yamaha offers a glimpse of the world premieres that will be on display in its "Yamaha Motor Product Orchestra" booth. Headlining its line-up is a hybrid car/motorcycle concept, escorted by a leaning multi-wheeler​ concept.

Electric motorcycle designers are free to experiment with all sorts of funky ideas that would simply never fly in the petrol bike world. Case in point: the e-raw from France's Expemotion, which features a floating seat made from 80-odd layers of wood laminate, and uses an iPhone as a dash.

BMW's Villa d'Este concept bikes have a habit of becoming production reality in short order, so the Concept 101 is no flight of fancy. It signals BMW's intentions to break into the American cruiser market, and to do it in style.

If you share a car with your other half then there's bound to come a time when you both need to use it for different reasons. Well, a new concept design would mean that you could. The Lane Splitter is a car that splits apart and becomes two motorbikes.

In its recent Ah A May exercise, Yamaha got two groups of its designers to trade places – musical instrument designers from Yamaha Corp were tasked with creating motorcycles, while motorcycle designers from Yamaha Motor Company had to create instruments. Here's the pair of resulting two-wheelers.

On face value, the Bienville Legacy is a weird, vastly overpowered and visually shocking motorbike with a completely unique suspension system. But to the team that created it and the eccentric entrepreneur that bankrolled it, it's not just a motorcycle – it's the start of a movement.

It's silly season in Milan, with manufacturers jostling for the spotlight with a cavalcade of new bikes, model updates and wacky prototype concepts at the 2014 EICMA motorcycle expo. Here's our favorite new bike highlights from one of the biggest motorcycle shows on the global calendar.

Honda has released two new concept prototypes at EICMA 2014. The True Adventure is Honda’s vision of its next round-the-world Dakar-style adventure bike, and the RC213V-S is a road-going replica of the MotoGP bike Marc Marquez has just conquered the world with.