manufacturers · 2026 · EU market
Every manufacturer sells a staircase: a learner bike at the bottom, a flagship at the top, and a set of compromises in between. Pick a category, then a brand, to see how the rungs are spaced — and which ones your licence actually reaches.
Start here
Three constraints decide most of it. The licence class is worked out from each machine's own power and weight, seat height is the standard seat, and the budget is a UK list price checked in August 2026 — so treat all three as a way to shorten a list rather than as the last word.
Or browse
Model year
Then a lineup
Before you use the numbers
Every figure is the manufacturer's claimed output measured at the crankshaft. Expect roughly 10–15% less at the rear wheel once the gearbox and chain have taken their cut.
Power, torque, weight and seat height have been checked model by model against each manufacturer's own European spec pages, and every card links to the page it was checked against. Six of the seven brands are done and 134 of the 445 figures checked turned out to be wrong. Aprilia is the exception: its site cannot be read, so those nine cards say so rather than pretending otherwise.
Manufacturers publish power, torque, weight and seat height for nearly everything, but rarely 0–100 km/h or top speed outside the sport class. Where a figure is derived from power-to-weight rather than published, it is underlined like this. Treat those as a ranking, not a stopwatch.
UK list prices, checked August 2026, taken from each manufacturer's own UK site — the only market all of them publish in one currency, which is why this column is in pounds on a page otherwise about the EU. Every other figure here is a property of the machine and stays put; this one describes a market on a date and will be wrong later through nobody's fault. 91 of the 130 have one. BMW renders its prices in a configurator this site cannot read and Aprilia's site cannot be read at all, so those cards say so rather than carrying a guess, and the two price ladders leave them out and count them off.
“230 kg” says nothing on its own — it is light for an adventure bike and enormous for a supersport — so each card places its power, weight and power-to-weight against every machine of the same kind. A rank of a stated total rather than a percentile, because one category holds eight bikes and a percentile out of eight claims a precision it does not have. The set is the whole category across all seven brands, at whichever model year is on screen, and never only the models a filter has left showing.
A1 and A2 are rules, so the class on each card is calculated from that bike's own power and weight rather than copied in as a label — including the clause that stops a restriction kit turning a big machine into an A2 one. Every card shows the figures it was decided on. Treat it as guidance for narrowing a shortlist, not as a legal determination: confirm with the dealer before you buy.
The compare view filters on it because it decides more about whether a bike is usable than any other number here — but it is a poor stand-in for reach. A narrow 830 mm seat can be easier to get a foot down on than a wide 810 mm one, and the suspension gives some of it back under your own weight. The figure quoted is always the standard seat; where a lower seat or a lowered version exists, the filter says so rather than counting it.
Picking a year rewinds the page to that model year: models not yet launched drop out, and where an earlier generation is on record its specs replace the current ones. That archive covers 49 of the 130 models. The rest stay at today's figures, and the line under the chips always says how many of each you are looking at.
Euro 5+ has pushed several inline-fours off European roads while they continue elsewhere. Where a bike is track-only or no longer sold new in Europe, it is marked as such.
The ladder
The lineup
Everything at once
| Model | Category | Engine | Power | Torque | Wet | PS/kg | 0–100 | Top | Seat | Rim f/r | Price | Licence |
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Worth knowing
Cross-brand · 2026 · EU market
Every road model from all manufacturers on a single ladder — sport, naked, sport-tourer, adventure, cruiser and retro together. Untick anything you do not want to see, filter by category and licence to show only what you can legally ride, or set a maximum seat height and see what is left.
Step one
Model year
Maximum seat height
Budget
By category
By licence, or everything at once
Step two
Side by side
| Model | Brand | Category | Engine | Power | Torque | Wet | PS/kg | 0–100 | Top | Seat | Rim f/r | Price | Licence |
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Reading a cross-brand ladder
Length shows the value, colour shows the manufacturer. Sorting by power to weight is usually the most revealing view — it clusters bikes that feel similar regardless of capacity.
Every manufacturer measures crank power to the same standard, but wet weight definitions vary slightly in how much fuel is included. Differences under about 3 kg are noise.
The H2R, R1 and R6 Race are not road machines in Europe. Use the road-legal filter if you want a ladder you could actually buy and ride here.
A Gold Wing and a Panigale V4 R appear on the same ladder because they are both motorcycles, not because the comparison means anything. Sorting all at once is a novelty; the category filter is where the useful comparisons live.
Head to head · 2026 · EU market
A ladder shows spread — how a whole class distributes across one number. It is deliberately bad at the other question: these two specifically, how do they differ across everything at once. Pick two, from any brand, and from any generation on record.
First bike
Second bike
Reading a head-to-head
The arrow points at the larger figure only where larger is unambiguously the thing people want — more power, less weight, a quicker 0–100. Seat height, price and pounds-per-PS carry no arrow, because there is no version of those where one direction is simply better. Nor does the count of arrows add up to a winner: a bike can lose every row here and still be the one to buy.
0–100 and top speed are derived from power-to-weight for most models. Where both sides are derived, the difference between them is mostly an artefact of that derivation rather than a fact about the bikes, so the delta is greyed and no side is marked. Both figures keep their underline either way.
Putting a bike beside its own earlier self uses the archived specification for that generation, not today's. Price is the exception: it is only recorded for the current machine, so an archived generation shows none rather than borrowing one.