In the past few years, we've seen both Honda and Yamaha keep up development of their own takes on self-balancing motorcycle technology. And although the end goal might be roughly the same between the two, each OEM has a distinctly different approach to achieving that goal.
For its part, Honda has shown both extremely serious demonstration vehicles (and videos), like this one. More recently, it's opted to put a more cuddly, kid-friendly face forward by teaming up with the Pokémon Company to create a rideable Koraidon bike. This stands in contrast to Yamaha's most recent Motoroid2 demonstrator vehicle, which veered decidedly more sci-fi in its execution.
Over the weekend, at the 2025 running of the Endurance World Championship's Suzuka 8 Hours, Honda finally did more than simply show still photos and video of Koraidon. The results? Well, see what you think after watching video of the show run during the pre-race ceremony.
