A Motorcycle So Clean You Could Consider It ‘Filthy’ Fully black liveries are nothing new in the motorcycle world. Many... Read More
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Royal Enfield Sets Its Sights on November Royal Enfield has a new bike coming soon. It’s called the Meteor 350... Read More
South Australian riders have been urged to make a submission for the new 10-year Road Safety Strategy. The controversial SA Road Safety Strategy 2020 ‘Towards Zero Together’ ends this year and the state government is developing a new 10-year plan to guide safety decisions and investment up to 2031. Tim... Read More
As expected, BMW is adding to its range of R 18 cruisers with the first being a tourer called the... Read More
The Urban G/S Edition is Simply Amazing Something I always respected about Ducati’s Scrambler lineup was the sheer amount of... Read More
Cafe Race-ify Your Speed Twin I’m going to say it… I think the Speed Twin is a little bit understyled. Now I’m not obsessed with radical bikes or anything, but for a motorcycle that’s going to run you around $12,500 all in; it just looks as though it’s missing… something.... Read More
New Zealand electric motorcycle company UBCO has launched their 2021 models with an off-road 2X2 Work Bike and a 2X2 Adventure Bike. Spokeswoman Kat Sutherland... Read More
The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride was this year forced to go solo and virtual by the coronavirus pandemic, resulting in a major... Read More
Kawasaki has been working on a supercharged two-stroke and electric hybrid motorcycle since 2017 and has now filed a patent for a boost button for extra oomph. Their original patent application was filed with Japan’s patent office in December 2017 and again a year later in the US Patent Office. It shows... Read More
Helmets may soon cost riders less thanks to virtual helmet safety testing that avoids the expense of destroying helmets in... Read More
It’s Only Some Models Zero Motorcycles has issued a recall of several 2021 models. The reason is a DC converter... Read More
Just days after Ducati announced it would introduce adaptive cruise control to its Multistrada V4, BMW has expectedly followed suit with the new RT. Adaptive cruise control, or as BMW calls it “active cruise control” has been available in many cars for several years and keeps your vehicle a nominated... Read More
Just a month after the new Ducati Scrambler 1100 PRO models have arrived in showrooms, the Italian company is announced... Read More
Three New Dealers to Start CFMoto is going to be expanding in Australia. The company is opening three new dealers... Read More
You Have to Love Those Fat Tires Volcon is an electric motorcycle startup that comes out of Texas. It’s a company interested in electric off-road vehicles and the latest bike it has is called the Grunt. The Grunt is a fat tire electric trail bike that should come out in... Read More
The ever-growing list of 2020 motorcycle recalls continues to expand with another addition to the hit-list; Harley Davison’s 2020 LiveWire... Read More
Not too long ago, I showcased the KTM 890 Adventure R and R Rally at our sister site Web Bike... Read More
Holy Cr-Apps! Wow. I feel like every single week I write a new article about a manufacturer’s upcoming motorcycle app. Last week it was KTM’s new app for controlling their MX bikes suspension and engine settings, and a few weeks prior to that it was Ducati’s MyDucati app to keep... Read More
The Pulsar 200 Brothers Finally Get New Colors India’s market for smaller-displacement motorcycles is huge. With such densely populated cities... Read More
Rossi Seems Fine but Is Closely Monitored Valentino Rossi recently tested positive for COVID-19, which caused him to miss the... Read More
Hillier Is a Truly Impressive Guy James Hillier won the Isle of Man TT in 2013, and now he has his sights set on something just as, if not even more impressive, the Dakar Rally. This is the first Isle Of Man TT Champion who will have attempted the Dakar... Read More
A ‘Glaring’ Issue With The 2018 GSX-250R Headlight Driving at night isn’t my favorite thing to do – especially on... Read More
The Doctor Needs A Doctor That’s right. Our favorite rider has contracted COVID-19 making him the very first MotoGP rider... Read More
VW and Ducati for Much Longer? There have been numerous rumors that VW Group would like to sell Ducati, but now it seems that Herbert Diess is trying to make it clear that Ducati will stay under the VW umbrella. In the last general meeting, he made a note of... Read More
Royal Enfield Expands Its Racing Recently, I noted Royal Enfield’s rise and its goals for the future. As a part... Read More
Keanu Reeves and Video Games and Motorcycles Keanu Reeves is in a new video game called Cyberpunk 2077, and so... Read More
Hop On, We’re Going Out UberMoto is just what you’d expect; Uber for motorcycles. You open your app, set your destination, and within no time your driver (or in this case, rider) will show up just in the knick of time so you aren’t late for your appointment at the... Read More
Norway is removing wire rope barriers from a six-kilometre stretch of road near the capital of Oslo in a win... Read More
No sooner has Apple announced their new iPhone 12 than motorcycle mounting specialists Quadlock have announced they are taking orders... Read More
MV Agusta has announced a partnership with Hertz Ride to offer some of their touring bikes for hire in Italy and France. The company also operates in Portugal, Spain, Austria, Slovenia, and the United States, but so far the deal only involves the motorcycle manufacturer’s home country of Italy and... Read More
Full Adjustability On The Go You might have read about the MyDucati app I did an overview of a few... Read More
The Two-Wheel Lover’s Video Game The company Milestone has a new Ride 4 motorcycle video game. The much-loved franchise’s new... Read More
Appealing to “The Youths” Royal Enfield’s rise is one that’s fairly well documented. Siddhartha Lal brought back the company in a big way and part of the way it was done was to bring younger riders into the fold with cool and affordable motorcycles. Now that the Indian market is... Read More
Victoria plans ‘dangerous’ bicycle passing rule Victoria will join other states next year with a rule requiring motorists to give... Read More
Four of Australia’s most highly credentialed motocross industry professionals are joining forces to revitalise the Australian Motocross Championship. MX legend... Read More
A limited-edition 2008 Ducati Desmosedici RR Eight is a highlight of eight Ducatis spanning 37 years in the Shannons Spring Timed Online Auction from 11-18 November 2020. They are part of a collection of 37 classic and collectible motorcycles and scooters in the Australian auction which has a total of... Read More
Race Teams Get the Coolest Stuff The BMW WorldSBK Team is obviously on the cutting edge of motorcycle racing technology,... Read More
Yet Another GS A while back we reported on the Tom Cruise stunt that he did while filming the latest... Read More
Representation for Women in Motorsports In 2018, women accounted for 19% of motorcycle riders in America. Polaris aims to bring this number sky-high with their new Empowersports Women’s Riding Council with hopes to drive more participation and representation of women in the Powersports world. This new council will be operated... Read More
A Classic FZ600 You Can Own Today The FZ name holds weight in today’s day and age. The Yamaha FZ-07,... Read More
The Rs 660 Finally Shows up to the Party If you’ve you’re a fan of Italian motorcycles but are intimidated... Read More
Only 100 Will be Made We’ve reported on the Langen Two-Stroke machine in previous articles. It’s an impressive machine made by Christofer Ratcliffe, the former Chief Design Engineer at acclaimed CCM Motorcycles. Orders for the machine are now open. The bike is one of the few street bikes out there... Read More
Piaggio Expanding in India Aprilia will put out a sub-300cc motorcycle for the Indian market. This news comes from the... Read More
Aprilia’s Middle-Displacement Sportbike Is Almost Here The Aprilia RS660 is a hotly anticipated motorcycle for just about any market out... Read More
Get Ready The Yamaha XSR 155 is a small, retro-styled bike, and Yamaha is thinking of making the smart move of bringing the bike to the Indian market. The motorcycle has a similar chassis to the R15 sportbike and the MT-15 naked bike. The small 155cc liquid-cooled single-cylinder engine found... Read More
Awww, It’s So Cute I think Honda Grom’s are super cool. I have a few friends with their Grom’s kit... Read More
Another One Bites the Dust Coronavirus has completely decimated this year’s prospects for any motorcycle shows – and for good... Read More
Motorcycles appear the preferred COVID lockdown vehicle with Australian sales booming after a slow start to the year due to with fires, drought, floods and then the COVID lockdown. The official Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) sales figures for new motorcycles and off highway vehicles (OHVs) to the end of September... Read More
Custom Electric Bikes are Going to be Cool When I think custom motorcycles, I think of beautiful exhausts and the... Read More
What This Crazy World Needs The Ducati Panigale V2 is about as far from a scooter as you can get,... Read More
What Will It Be? Indian motorcycle company Bajaj recently trademarked the Neuron name, which suggests the company is working on a new motorcycle. However, it’s unclear what kind of bike it will be. There are rumors it will be a sub-400cc model, but Bajaj already has plenty of motorcycles like... Read More
Honda’s Mini Could Become Even Better Honda’s motorcycle division is all about rumors. The company must have about 10 million... Read More
Melbourne shoppers can buy motorcycling equipment at Aldi when they purchase their weekly supermarket shopping, but can’t go to a... Read More
A device you wear on your wrist could alert you to a rider in your group falling behind, contact emergency if you crash and even monitor your riding behaviour. The smart wearable Motobit SENTINEL for motorcyclists is now seeking crowdfunding through Indiegogo. So far the campaign has raised $A4546 or 18% of... Read More
Ducati announced in 2018 that by 2020 it would add front and rear radar sensors to warn riders of dangers. Now... Read More
Last week Suzuki put out a post on their official motorcycle Instagram stating that a “superior way to ride” will... Read More
Some Killer Custom Motorcycles Yamaha hosts an annual Yard Build competition that has produced some fantastic custom motorcycles since the first competition in 2014. Recently, the company announced the winners of the most recent contest. The theme of this year’s contests was Back to the Drawing Board, which challenged builders... Read More
Queensland roads could soon become safer for riders with the implementation of standards for non-slip road surfaces and better maintenance.... Read More
The bid by a rider to get elected to the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria board has failed, but he’s not done... Read More
BMW Motorrad is celebrating 40 years of its GS models with three new models, extra standard features and anniversary styling touches for its current line of GS models. GS stands for Gelände/Straße in German which literally translates to “terrain/road”. But it is also referred to as “off-road/road sport” which means it will... Read More