As reported on by the crew at Motorcycle News recently, there's a new 2-stroke in town. That's not something you hear very often, well, unless you count the latest news from Kawasaki. But a new street-legal 2-stroke is news I thought had been resigned to the past, and for it to make nearly 300 hp is news I never thought I'd see.
The machine is called the Aperion and comes courtesy of Oxfordshire startup Veloce Motorcycles. It features a 1000cc eight-cylinder 2-stroke powerplant, with a claimed 280 hp. Now, to be fair, the example the company displayed at the Bike Shed Moto Show in London last month wasn't running, but Veloce says it has a running demo bike and plans to deliver the Aperion to customers in 2027.
