Superbike

Ultraviolette has taken the wraps off the all-new F99, branding it India’s first ever superbike. Drawing its design inspiration from supersonic jets, the bike can go from standstill to 60 mph in 3 seconds on the way to its claimed top speed.

A thousand lifetimes ago, at EICMA 2019, Aston Martin and Brough Superior teamed up on an eye-popping AMB 001 turbo sportsbike. In the post-apocalyptic wasteland of 2022, this sliver of unobtanium gets a souped-up 225-horsepower Pro stablemate.

Yank Ducati's new Panigale V4 R out of its crate, replace the purely ornamental standard exhaust with a titanium Akrapovic race pipe and fill it up with a fancy "performance oil" from Shell, and you're sitting on a machine capable of 240.5 horsepower.

It doesn't matter how special an Italian motorcycle is, there is always an even specialer edition coming. Something festooned with great, treacly dollops of specialness. Such a bike is Ducati's latest, the Panigale V4 SP2.

BMW has announced its most powerful motorcycle ever – a lightweight, juiced-up version of its outstanding S1000RR superbike that becomes the first bike to wear the storied M badge. The M1000RR is a razor-edged track bike that's also street-legal.

Boutique motorcycle builder Vyrus has always loved its hub-steered super-naked motorcycles, and its latest 202-horsepower Ducati-powered beast is probably its most aesthetically challenging to date. Meet the Alyen 988, fresh out of Rimini, Italy.

One horsepower per kilogram: it's the kind of power-to-weight ratio you only see in the world's most exclusive multi-million dollar hypercars. But at 231 hp and 152 kg, the Ducati Superleggera V4 absolutely obliterates that figure, making 1.54 hp/kg.

French company Efesto has built a kit that can take your 205-odd horsepower Ducati Panigale, and turn it into a 300-horse hybrid widowmaker, with a 40-minute all-electric commuting range. Unfortunately, it looks like a Hyosung with a tumor.

This ultra-exclusive track special features a stratospheric power-to-weight ratio and a weird "no neutral" gearbox derived from MotoGP.

Twenty-five years ago, Ducati began building what would become its most iconic piece of high-octane art: the 916. To celebrate, the company has now brought forth 500 special edition Panigale V4 superbikes, tarted up to look like Tamburini's famous design and festooned with farkles.

Yamaha has given its flagship YZF-R1 superbike a significant update for 2020, with an ever so slightly new look, a new Euro V-compliant and more efficient engine, and some updates to the electronics and chassis. Naturally, there's also an extra-fancy R1M with all the carbon and Ohlins you can eat.

It's been a while since we last checked in with Aprilia's flagship RSV4 superbike, but a fresh version has just dropped that takes this absolute weapon of a thing to new heights: 1100cc, 217 horsepower and a top speed around 305 km/h (190 mph).