The 8 Meanest Motorcycles of 2016 Are a Feast for the Senses

If you need a 454 horses between your legs, we’ve got you covered.

It was a good year for two-wheeled creativity, as motorcycle manufacturers and tuners both pursued new frontiers of creativity. We saw an amazing variety of machines, from car-engined monsters to traditional V-twins producing unprecedented horsepower.

There are bikes to please wanna-be road racers, die-hard traditionalists and mechanical fetishists, so behold the best of 2016.