Finally an American made Sport Tourer that speeds to the front!

On The Road With the Motus MST

While Ultimate MotorCycling’s Arthur Coldwells and Nic de Sena were thrashing the new Motus MSTR and MST, respectively, as sport bikes, I was doing my yeoman’s duty testing the MST with bags and doing a bit of tour testing. While I didn’t get to rack up as many miles as I would have liked on the Motus MST, I’ll cut right to the chase for you — if you’re considering a high-end sport-touring motorcycle, you owe it to yourself to look very closely at the Motus MST. It’s a fantastic, unique, and inspiring machine.

It’s easy to get fixated on the Motus MST’s instantly iconic Baby Block motor — a 1650cc liquid-cooled V4 with pushrods (per its claim to being inspired by the small block V8s found in American muscle cars). You can’t ignore that the Motus MV4 engine just happens to also be fuel-injected, decisively oversquare (88mm bore, 67.8mm stroke), puts out a healthy 165 horsepower (claimed) and, most importantly, produces a peak of 123 ft/lbs of torque at just 5000 rpm. However, there’s more to the story of the desirability of the Alabama-made MST.