F
ALL IS A GREAT TIME
to buy a bike. At deal-
erships, summer
sales numbers have
tapered off, and exist-
ing inventory needs to
be cleared to make way
for next year’s models, most of
which are revealed in Novem-
ber. Even better, since the 2008
recession, manufacturers
have increased efforts to earn
new customers, resulting in
affordable, practical, and won-
derfully strange new designs.
Most come with sophisticated
safet y features such as traction
control and stall prevention—
and that’s before you put on the
leather jacket that automati-
cally deploys personal airbags.
Drawing on over a decade of
experience both riding and cov-
ering the industry, we compared
specs, pricing, service intervals,
and paint options to choose the
four motorcycles we’d buy and
recommend for 2020.The Best
Motorcycle
for Every
Type of
Rider
3
Cars &
Trucks
// BY ALEX A NDER GEORGE //12 September/October 2020