The BENDA story: a design-first, engine-building brand

Ultimate Motorcycling published a full guide to the brand, and it captures the thing that sets BENDA apart from most of its peers: we build our own engines.

BENDA was founded in Hangzhou in 2016 and stood up its own engine division a year later, rather than buying powerplants from established suppliers. That is why a V4 in a LAMS cruiser is possible at all.

• Founded 2016 in Hangzhou; in-house engine division from 2017
• A 1700cc inline-six prototype and the P51 hybrid concept shown at EICMA 2025

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