Look, friends, I'm going to level with you—recently I find it harder and harder to get excited about new motorcycles. Not that there aren't a slew of great new bikes out there, there really are, but not many of them are in my wheelhouse. ADV bikes seem to the new hotness, and while Harley's promised smallbore Pan America, the V-Strom 800DE (Dr. Big, I presume?), and other offerings from BMW, Yamaha, and Triumph are nice—and don't get me wrong, I think that smaller PanAm is gonna rule—I'm just not that into them.
Regular readers know that I like small, weird, quirky bikes and well-done, neo-retro standards. Stuff like Kawasaki's Z650RS and Honda's entire MiniMOTO line is my jam. Well, and Urals, obviously, but Ural doesn't do exciting new models. So, I sat myself down with some rye whiskey and pored through RideApart's output for the past year to jog my memory. What was coming out in 2023? Had I written about it? Had I ridden any of it? Would I actually have any of these new bikes in my garage? Turns out I would, and here's a selection of upcoming bikes I'm looking forward to.
