#Touring

A Golden jubilee for the Gold Wing

Harley-Davidson announced a new Street Glide Ultra model for 2025, introducing the first full-dress touring model on its current touring platform. With its new fairing lowers and combination topcase and passenger backrest, the Street Glide Ultra essentially replaces the Ultra Limited in Harley-Davidson’s touring lineup.

Indian officially pulled the wraps off its expanded PowerPlus touring family, adding two fork-mounted fairing variants and introducing a larger 112ci version of the liquid-cooled engine.

BMW announced a refreshed Big Boxer lineup, including Euro 5+ compliance, plus styling updates to the R 18 and R 18 Classic and fresh paint for the R 18 B, R 18 Transcontinental and R 18 Roctane. Expect all five variants to arrive in dealerships in the second quarter of 2025.

BMW is teasing a new model premiere on January 21, for what we expect to be updates for its R 18 range. So far, BMW has only released a single image of a model along with the tagline “Next Level Big Boxer Culture”.

Indian is teasing a new 2025 model review presentation on January 24 for the “new PowerPlus family”. Based on what we know thus far, we expect the presentation to include new liquid-cooled versions of the Roadmaster and Chieftain, joining the PowerPlus-engined Challenger and Pursuit.

What Harley announced… and what it didn’t

Long-haul touring models have yet to receive Road Glide and Street Glide updates

Recently, the Motorcycle.com staff had the chance to tour the beautiful Ontario countryside to experience the fall colors and to get a taste of what Northern Ontario has to offer. It’s a stunning place, and we thank our friends at Destination Ontario for making it all possible. Watch the feature video about our trip here or you can read about our trip here.

It’s been a while since I walked out of work into a dark winter evening and scraped frost off of my motorcycle seat before hopping on to brave the elements. Longer still, that I did it every night during college in the Midwest where my enthusiasm and devil-may-care attitude outweighed the fear of potential black ice lurking in the shadows. Not long after that time, I moved to California with its promise of year-round riding in the sunshine with mountains I could visit within a day to get my fix of snow if/when needed. It’s been great. I do miss the seasonality though. The moist smell of dirt and decay that you only get a few times a year on unseasonably warm fall days as the leaves begin to change color and litter the forest floor before drying to a crisp in the winter wind. I miss the silent mornings when an overnight snow storm left the landscape blanketed in a sound dampening layer of ice. I miss change.

Fresh emissions data out of Germany suggest an updated Honda Rebel 1100 is on the way, including what might be a new model variant for 2025.

The love child of a Duke and Adventure – that oddly works

Along with the new Hydra-Glide Revival Icons model, Harley-Davidson announced this year’s additions to its Enthusiast Collection with the Low Rider ST, Ultra Limited, and Tri Glide Ultra getting a special edition Tobacco Fade color.