Brough Superior SS 100 MK2 2025 — Specifications

Seventy-one thousand five hundred euros. Take the time to let that figure resonate before even looking at the machine. Because the SS100 MK2 is not a motorcycle you buy after comparing spec sheets on a forum; it’s a decision you make as you acquire a high-end timepiece, with the quiet conviction that the object will outlast its owner.

Brough Superior carries a name steeped in British history, but the renaissance of this legend owes more to France than to the mists of Nottinghamshire. Boxer Design, a company led by Thierry Henriette, has been holding the pencils since Mark Upham acquired the brand in 2008. This French house boasts an impressive address book: collaborations with Honda, Suzuki, Voxan, and a host of confidential projects that define the reputation of an engineering office with a rare level of exigency. The engine itself comes from another French entity, Akira, which worked hand-in-hand with Boxer to design this 88-degree V-twin. The result: a 997 cm3 block, liquid-cooled, with dual overhead camshafts, four valves per cylinder, delivering 102 horsepower at 9600 rpm and 87.3 Nm at 7300 rpm. The figures are sensible, almost modest compared to what a Ducati V4 or a BMW S1000R throws down in the same price range. But this engine isn’t seeking to break lap time records; it’s seeking contemplation. Every piece seems hand-polished, every curve machined with aesthetic intent. One will regret, however, a few hoses that are too exposed, jarring in this environment of sculpture-mechanics.

The cell surrounding this block deserves attention. Titanium is not a material that serial manufacturers readily afford themselves, and Brough uses it here to construct a tubular trellis frame that almost disappears behind the mechanics, leaving the engine to carry the gaze. The aluminum tank, long and tapered like a pre-war bodywork, rests on metal straps whose inclination has been reworked on this MK2 version to accentuate the impression of movement. The fenders have also been redesigned, the exhaust outlets adopt a more slender conical profile, and the headlight borrows slightly rounded contours. Couturier rather than bodywork modifications, which confirm that at Brough, you don’s modify a model with a drill.

The front suspension deserves particular mention, because it symbolizes better than anything the mindset of the house. Rather than an inverted telescopic fork like any sportbike on the market, the SS100 boasts a Fior-type suspension, with two magnesium-aluminum triangles and titanium support arms. The Öhlins shock works outside of dive constraints, which improves steering precision while displaying a kinematics that no one else dares to offer in 2025. The braking system, entrusted to Beringer and its 4D system, plays the same iconoclastic card: small 230 mm double-disc calipers with four pistons, three pads, a reduced gyroscopic inertia. At the rear, a single disc of the same diameter, its two-piston caliper discreet within the aluminum-magnesium swingarm. Brembo and its Stylema remain with the others. Here, one chooses differently, even if braking effectiveness remains to be demonstrated at high speed.

At 186 kg dry, on 18-inch wheels shod in 120/70 and 160/60 tires, with a top speed announced at 200 km/h, the SS100 MK2 is not for the Sunday rider seeking thrills. It speaks to an enlightened collector, a wealthy enthusiast who wants to ride something that no other driver owns in their garage. In this ultra-exclusive niche, alongside Avinton or Ecosse Moto, Brough Superior plays in a court where money is not enough: you must also know what the name represents. And this name, forged by Georges Brough at the beginning of the last century, made famous by T.E. Lawrence, resurrected by French engineers, is worth the seventy-one thousand five hundred euros they ask you to take it home.