EICMA: CFMOTO’s all-new 209hp V4

CFMOTO continues to make resounding moves across its burgeoning motorcycle frontier – the 450MT adventure bike selling like hotcakes, for one – and the EICMA show raised more eyebrows with a groundbreaking V4 engine concept.

The concept moniker will undoubtedly be shed very soon, with the 61.5kg, 997cc 90-degree V4 (81mm bore x 48.4mm stroke) producing a claimed 209hp (156kW) at 14,500rpm and peak torque of 114Nm at 12,500rpm.

Brawny performance, and achieved with advanced engineering elements such as titanium connecting rods, a counter-rotating crankshaft, a finger-follower valve train setup, secondary top-feed injectors and oval exhaust ports.

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What’s next? Such is the inexorable pace of new models out of the CFMOTO bunker, we’d be surprised if some teaser images don’t start to appear in 2025. Whether the V4 will be married to a sportsbike, adventure bike and/or naked remains to be seen.

And CFMOTO clearly has racing ambitions – David Alonso’s 2024 Moto3-winning world championship has provided a massive brand boost – so could a WorldSBK campaign be on the radar with the V4 falling inside the category’s one-litre capacity. Exciting times, any way you look at it.

Meanwhile, CFMOTO also unveiled its ‘Master of Speed’ sportsbike concept at EICMA, which “embodies CFMOTO’s commitment to the next era of high-performance sportsbikes”.

Moody, streamlined, lithe, bold: it’s hard to put a definitive tag on the machine, but there’s definitely a premium on speed. The new V4 in it would make a nice starting point…