Harley-Davidson Motor Company has chosen Sideburn magazine to release the first image of their 2023 street tracker, the XR1250. Powered by the company's 1252cc Revolution Max liquid-cooled engine, the XR1250 delivers a claimed 150bhp, putting it firmly in the hyper-naked category. Cast alloy 19in wheels wear road legal dirt track pattern tyres, and the front rim brake is a throwback to the days of Buell, while... Wait, who am I kidding> This is an exclusive, but it's an excl

Industrial designer, John Mcinnis, is one of the main men behind the Sideburn 40 Blatant Moto electric racer cover bike (and cover shoot), and got in touch with this rendering of his take on an electric version of the Indian FTR750. This is what he says: This bike is still a work in progress but I've had the battery and frame structure in my head for a couple weeks now and needed to get into sketch and then CAD. The electric flat track motorcycle as an idea has been in my hea

During a clean up of my computer photo files I found some screenshots of this neat concept than was shown at EICMA in 2018 with the oh-so boringly Honda monicker of CB125M. The photos are 18 months old now, but the design is still doing it for me, so I thought I'd share it. At the time it really caught my eye. Sure, it's more supermoto than street tracker, but Sideburn isn't afraid of straying out of its lane. The 125M's has a modern, almost aggressive look, but far more toge

This latest concept drawing sneaked out of Milwaukee HQ and Harley themselves were linking the EV to their XR750, parlaying the future to Milwaukee's glorious old racebike. If that's what it takes to get people interested. More importantly, after decades of hoping for a real street tracker, not the models they eventually released, like the XR1000 and XR1200, it's laden with irony that Harley might actually build one, but with an electric motor. I'm in no way against the idea,