There’s no denying the performance advantage of liquid cooling, but if you’re of the opinion that air-cooled machines are obsolete, we say not so fast. The fact is that there are loads of air-cooled motorcycles you can still buy for 2024 in most every discipline of riding, offering significant upsides in MSRP, mechanical simplicity and fun factor. Instead of listing off every machine you could buy without a radiator, we’d rather point out the ones we’d put hard-earned dollars towards, and the results may surprise you.
Yamaha TW200 The enduring Yamaha TW200 is a bike that simply couldn’t exist with liquid cooling—it just wouldn’t make sense. With every facet of the bike designed for simple and reliable terrain domination, the TW will take you anywhere on the globe if you’re patient enough.…