The Milan motorcycle show always delivers a few jaw-dropping moments, but this year one booth in Hall 11 stopped more grown men in their tracks than the latest 200-horsepower superbikes. Zhejiang Apollo Sports Technology, the company behind the RFN brand, rolled out something different: an entire family of electric off-road bikes called the WARRIOR series. And for once, the loudest talk in the aisle wasn’t about peak horsepower – it was about who actually stays rubber-side down when the trail gets nasty.
They launched it on November 6, 2025, right there at EICMA, and the message was simple: “Beyond Speed, Mastering Control.”
After twenty-plus years of building bikes, Apollo decided the electric dirt bike world needed a lineup that grows with the rider instead of forcing every rider to grow into the same monster machine. So they built five distinct ranges under the WARRIOR banner, each one dialed in for a specific stage of life.
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Start with the little guys. The WARRIOR Kids models are made for three- to seven-year-olds. These aren’t toys with training wheels – they’re real dirt bikes shrunk down, balanced for grass fields and backyard loops where dads and grandpas can keep an eye on things. Everything is built around safety and easy handling so the first taste of two wheels doesn’t end with a trip to the emergency room.
Step up to the WARRIOR Youth bikes and you’re looking at machines for eight- to fourteen-year-olds. Power is still kept in check, but there’s enough grunt to climb hills and enough speed to feel exciting without being terrifying. These are the bikes that let a kid move from the flat field behind the house to real beginner trails with the family.
Once riders hit fifteen and up, the standard WARRIOR takes over. Light, flickable, and happy on mountain singletrack, it’s the perfect bridge bike. Plenty of adults who walked the booth said they’d be perfectly happy keeping one of these in the garage for weekend rides – no need to jump straight to the biggest hammer in the toolbox.
Then comes the WARRIOR Pro for grown-ups who actually use the whole trail. High torque, longer range, and built to eat rough terrain all day. This is the one that had guys in their forties and fifties leaning over the bars, nodding slowly, and asking the same question: “How soon can I get one?”
At the top sits the WARRIOR Race version, the pure competition tool for pros who live on the track. If you’ve ever watched an electric motocross race and wondered what those factory bikes feel like, this is as close as most of us will ever get.
What ties every single model together – from the tiniest kid bike to the race weapon – is the same control logic. Throttle feel, brake response, and traction behavior stay predictable as you move up the ladder. Learn on a Kids model at age five, and ten years later the Pro feels like an old friend wearing a bigger engine.
The real magic, though, happens through a Bluetooth app. Parents can set speed limits, draw geo-fenced zones, and even shut the bike down remotely if someone decides to test boundaries. As the rider gets older, those restrictions disappear and the app shifts to performance tracking – lap times, battery usage, even lean angle if you’re into that sort of thing. It’s like the bike grows up right alongside the person swinging a leg over it.
Power output on every model is matched to the size and weight it’s meant to carry. No surprises, no sudden wheelies that send a ten-year-old over the bars. The company calls it a “tiered power system,” but riders at the show just called it smart.
Apollo isn’t shy about where they want to take this. They’re done being just another manufacturer cranking out bikes. They want to build an entire off-road ecosystem – one that keeps families riding together, keeps kids safe while they learn, and still delivers the kind of adrenaline hit that makes a grown man grin under his helmet after a long day on the trail.
Standing there in Milan, watching kids climb on the little WARRIORs while their dads eyed the Pro models, it was clear something bigger than a product launch just happened. This is a company betting that the future of off-roading isn’t decided by who has the most horsepower – it’s decided by who gives riders exactly what they can handle, exactly when they’re ready for it.
If you spent years wrenching on two-strokes in the garage or you’re the guy who taught half the neighborhood kids how to ride back in the day, the WARRIOR series feels like it was built with you in mind. It respects the fact that real riding isn’t always about going faster – sometimes it’s about staying in control long enough to come home with the same smile you left with.
The bikes are already rolling out to dealers. If you’re ready to get back on the dirt – or you’ve got grandkids begging for their first real bike – might be time to take a hard look at what RFN just dropped on the world.
Because out on the trail, control just became the new horsepower.
