It couldn’t have come any sooner, as these ten new machines for 2012 have us here at Motorcycle.com excited for the year to come. Like last year, this list is heavily Euro-centric – just one Japanese motorcycle managed to crack our register. Similar, too, is the amount of sport (or sporty-ish) bikes on the countdown.

Perhaps most interesting, however, is the presence of not one, but two electric motorcycles. One promises a lot of potential, while the other is a display of what happens when a major manufacturer dips its toes in the E-bike game.

So, here they are – Motorcycle.com’s 10 hottest bikes of 2012, in alphabetical order ...

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