No matter how you feel about electric motorcycles, there’s no question that the design and engineering that goes into them has a knock-on effect on the industry as a whole.
For instance, nearly every electric moto shifts automatically, a factor helping to drive more and more traditional brands to introduce bikes that shift more easily (if not automatically).
Another example derives from the fact that these bikes locate their batteries close to their motors, rendering the area where the fuel tank typically resides a blank canvas that often becomes a storage unit.
These two particular points bring me to one of the more interesting gas bikes around, the 2025 Honda NC750X, which implements both influences in innovative ways.
For those of us living in areas where it’s unwise to leave helmets hanging on handlebars, the frunk is huge — and for anyone else, congrats, you can say goodbye to riding around lugging a backpack.
The result is an ultra-capable, rider-friendly, borderline all-purpose motorcycle that somehow still manages to keep its price tag in the (high) four figures.
