Italian motorcycle manufacturer MV Agusta seems intent on cracking the enormous Chinese motorcycle market. In 2019, they signed an agreement... Read More
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The Royal Automobile Club of Victoria has long been criticised for being anti-motorcyclist, but now one rider is hoping to... Read More
Winds of Change Hit the Harley Office This morning, Harley Davidson announced that they will be bringing Gina Goetter onto the team as CFO according to GlobalNewswire. She has been a top financial executive at Tyson Foods and will be officially making the move on Sept 30. A ton of... Read More
The long-awaited annual Aldi motorcycle gear sale will be held throughout Australia on 30 September 2020, a month after its usual... Read More
Want to own your own motorcycle company? Carducci Dual Sport is offering a motorcycle design for sale. The unconventional adventure... Read More
Motorcycle travel documentaries can encourage you to go on your own adventure and help inspire you. There’s another really good one coming. Sterling Noren of Noren Films managed to capture his 6,000-mile journey over 30 days of riding solo. The 25-part series was filmed and produced was filmed by the... Read More
There’s knock-off just about everything these days, including motorcycles. RideApart noted an interesting bike that is a very clear clone... Read More
Australia’s first motorcycle GP world champion Wayne Gardner says he will fly home from Spain to personally deliver a petition to... Read More
Triumph Motorcycles Australia has issued a recall for 928 motorcycles over an issue with the front brakes. The affected vehicles may have experience the front brake pad detaching from the back plate, “resulting in reduced braking performance”, says the official recall notice issued through the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.... Read More
West Australian riders are being asked to complete a survey on road safety prepared by the Motorcycle Riders Association of... Read More
Proving there is still life in the two-stroke engine is new British company, Langen Motorcycles. They will unveil a limited-edition,... Read More
IMG Licensing will now be the exclusive licensee for MV Agusta. After surveying the options available to it, MV Agusta chose IMG for a multi-year agreement. The company will handle the brand’s new lifestyle products and other new merchandising items. “IMG is the best possible partner to achieve what we... Read More
BMW Motorrad Days will move to Berlin in 2021, according to a recent announcement. Previously, the event was held in... Read More
Ewan McGregor and Jimmy Fallon had a bit of fun on the Tonight Show recently. Ewan was there (virtually) to... Read More
French motorcycle helmet company Roof has unveiled a limited-edition Boxxer Carbon Cage modular helmet with leather interior, an additional iridium silver visor and a helmet bag that doubles as a backpack. It features a beautifully exposed carbon-fibre shell in a “cage design”, hence the name. The helmet will cost €679... Read More
This Novus carbon-fibre electric motorcycle weighs just 110kg and has only 100km of city range, yet it costs a whopping... Read More
Triumph is holding a Bonneville Build off on it’s UK website. You can vote for the best build from a... Read More
Peugeot is known for its cars, but the company does make scooters, too. It has also made some motorcycles over the years, and now it sounds like the company will make a new 300cc bike. Mahindra bought Peugeot’s motorcycle division in 2019. It intends to bring seven new two-wheeled models... Read More
While there’s a lot going on in the U.S. right now that may be cause for concern, one bright spot... Read More
Brisbane rider Daniele Milazzo grew up watching the Dakar Rally on SBS TV and always dreamt of owning one of... Read More
The latest blatant ripoff of motorcycle design by the Chinese is a Moto S450RR which looks very much like BMW’s S 1000 RR and even features a version of the famous Bavarian marque’s blue roundel logo. It is not the first nor the last ripoff of successful motorcycle and car... Read More
A collection of more than 20 classic BMW motorcycles, representing eight decades of the Bavarian machines, will hit the auction... Read More
Are you a William Shatner fan and a fan of Harley-Davidson’s new LiveWire electric motorcycle? Then you really should consider... Read More
The October 2020 issue of Cycle World magazine will be its last print issue ever. The publication is moving to a digital-only platform. This news should come as little surprise as fewer and fewer motorcycle publications go to print. Motorcyclist, Cycle World’s sister publication, made this move in May of... Read More
Motorcycles, scooters, and mopeds are an ideal alternative to public transport as people social distance during the pandemic, says Australia’s... Read More
Australian smart helmet start-up Forcite is about to go on sale and has attracted major investment support. The first batch... Read More
Harley-Davidson will not have to pay $US3 million to retrofit or replace wood-burning household appliances with cleaner stoves to offset excess emissions. Yes, you heard right! That was part of a contentious US court ruling in 2016 when the American icon was fined $US12m for fitting aftermarket Screamin’ Eagle tuners which... Read More
BMW’s small-displacement G 310 R has been a real winner for the last couple of years, but now the company... Read More
Benelli has wanted to bring its adventure bike to the U.S. market for some time now. However, those plans were... Read More
Miriam Orlandi joins a rare group of folks who have taken electric motorcycles far further than many people thought possible. She managed to cover 4,350 miles on a 21-day journey. She rode from Brescia, Italy, to Nordkapp, Norway. That means she averaged about 200 miles each day. While a couple... Read More
A Brisbane Barrister has called on the Queensland Government to throw out the current exhaust laws after two cases against... Read More
The Ducati Scrambler 1100 will be heading to India. This will be the first Scrambler from the Italian company to... Read More
Hero MotoCorp is working on a new electric motorcycle platform called the e.US. That stands for Electric Ultra Sport and will be the basis of the company’s new line of electric motorcycles (please note that it’s not the bike in the lead image, that’s just a previous concept bike from... Read More
Riders deserve a better deal that includes free tolls and parking, and lower rego and insurance to encourage more people... Read More
Harley-Davidson will relaunch The Enthusiast magazine originally published from 1916 to 2008 to replace HOG Magazine as their official publication.... Read More
Motorcycle road safety campaigns erroneously blame riders for crashes and portray them as a menace on the roads, says a new road safety paper. The comprehensive 31-page paper, written by Motorcycle Riders Association of Australia spokesman Stephen Bardsley is being circulated to Victorian Government and Road Safety Authorities. It claims... Read More
Now you can be an Easy Rider commuter on this WYLD mini electric chopper from Brisbane-based electric light vehicle company... Read More
Mash, the French motorcycle company, was without a distributor earlier this year. Now the company has decided to work with... Read More
The French company Red Electric offers electric scooters in three different variants. While there are plenty of options when it comes to electric scooters these days, Red’s are special in that they offer long ranges between charging. The three different versions are called E50, E100, and E125. The difference here... Read More
Motorcycle theft fell a surprising 2.7% to 9021 in the past financial year (2019/20) while overall Australian motor vehicle theft... Read More
Rare veteran and vintage motorcycles from noted Victorian collector and enthusiast Warren Hicks will feature at the Shannons Timed Spring... Read More
Honda recently teased a new Forza model. This one should be a higher-displacement machine that will sit alongside the Forza 300 and Forza 125. It should challenge bikes like the Yamaha TMAX 560. In the teaser video, which I have included below, the company notes that “the Forza family is... Read More
Royal Enfield has a new production plant in Buenos Aires, Argentina. That facility will begin production this month, according to... Read More
Suzuki has its 100-year anniversary coming up. The motorcycle company has a limited edition GSX-R1000R that it has created for the... Read More
The 80th annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota last month has now been linked to more than a quarter of a million coronavirus infections, according to a study by the IZA Institute of Labor Economics. The event attracted 365,979 and was the biggest mass gathering in the world since the pandemic... Read More
Australia’s first electric motorcycle company, Fonzarelli, has won the Australian Good Design Awards’ Automotive – Best Exterior category for their fun,... Read More
Kawasaki has filed a trademark for “Noslisu” for a range of three-wheeler bicycles, e-bikes and motorised leaning trikes. The filing... Read More
Just 10 days after BMW Motorrad unveiled a maintenance-free X-ring chain, Italian company Regina has announced they will launch a similar Z-Ring High Performance Endurance chain that eliminates the need for periodic lubrication. The BMW M Endurance chain in 525 pitch is available on the latest S 1000 RR Race,... Read More
The Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries would be preparing for its usual Ride Your Motorcycle to Work Week initiative but... Read More
More women’s jackets have been added to the MotoCAP safety ratings after concerns that women’s riding gear was underrepresented in... Read More
The four Japanese motorcycle manufacturers last year signed an agreement to standardise electric motorcycle developmet, in particular similar batteries so they can be swapped. Since then, Yamaha and Kawasaki have patented battery swap ideas for electric motorcycles and scooters. Now the four companies — Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki and Yamaha —... Read More
If you’ve ever thought of turning your bike into stunt machine, MV Agusta has a good example of what might... Read More
Suzuki Motorcycle Australia has slashed $3000 off the price of its revived Katana and introduced two value accessory packs to... Read More
A sketch for an electric Husqvarna has emerged showing the company has plans for an electric naked street bike. It follows the launch last year of their first electric motorcycle, a small EE 5 electric dirt bike which is the equivalent of a 50cc model. But now it looks like... Read More
British electric motor company Saietta Group is expanding its production facilities as its radical Axial Flux Traction (AFT) motors roll... Read More
There is no disputing Tom Cruise’s passion for motorcycles and now there is no question he does most of his... Read More
Australian smart helmet start-up Forcite Helmets, has released exciting world-first, racer-perspective video from their Forcite MK1 helmet with an integrated camera, bypassing the usual racing restrictions on body-worn cameras. The Forcite MK1 helmet retails for $A1299 and the next limited batch will be available for Australians this summer. ASBK competitor... Read More
Finally, a preview of the Long Way UP adventure with Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman on electric Harley-Davidson LIveWire motorcycle... Read More
More than any other clothing, getting the right fit in your motorcycle gear is vital. Over a long day in... Read More
When long-serving Royal Automobile Club of Queensland motoring editor Barry Green retired after years of driving supercars in exotic locations, the most common question he was asked is what car would he buy. His answer was … a motorcycle! Now Barry tells Motorbike Writer how he got into motorcycles and... Read More