It’s no secret that China sports a large motorcycle community – many brands of which are new and strange to...
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Happy 120th, Royal Enfield! With the company’s celebrations, the Indian multinational motorcycle manufacturers have given us an exclusive range of...
It’s official – Honda Motor Company Ltd. has just dropped their anticipated adventure bike – and considering we covered the signed European type-approval documents earlier this year (with the official EU press release revealed a scant four hours ago), we’re digging the speed that this beastie was popped out. The...
Chinese brand CFMoto has been making huge strides in the motorcycle industry. Having been in close communications with Austrian brand...
The world’s largest motorcycle manufacturer is about to launch its new brainchild, the Pulsar 250F, with the official launch in...
Team Green is fixing to release a beastie into the European market – and many are rating the bike as a less-than-spectacular version of the more ‘genuine’ Triumph Bonneville. The W800’s predecessor, the W650, was released in Japan in the year 1999. It showcased a nicely overbuilt 650cc air-cooled twin-engine...
Europe has been very strict about its emissions goals; they aim for 78% of emissions cut by 2035, with the...
Not much time has passed since the Japanese Motorcycle manufacturer released a statement to the masses revealing that Kawasaki plans...
Four years after melting tar on the Mt Glorious Rd west of Brisbane in 2017 resulted in at least one rider crashing and after recent multi-million-dollar roadworks, the issue of melting tar is back again on the popular motorcyclist road. The Motorcycle Advocacy Group Facebook page is warning riders to take...
Australian motorcycle and OHV (Off Highway Vehicle) sales for the first nine months of this year have increased 8.3% over...
Car companies are now offering Aussie customers up to 10-year warranties on some of their vehicles, yet most motorcycle companies...
Soon your motorcycle and helmet could warn you if you have chosen the right apex and speed for a corner, regardless of the posted advisory speed. European researchers Alex Liniger and Simon Hecker have developed a prototype system based on their ARAS paper and have founded a company, Aegis Rider...
Half of NSW motorcyclists have experienced a near-miss in the past three months, according to a survey conducted as part...
Suzuki is bringing the Phantom back – and they’ve reincarnated her in the chassis of their latest GSX-R1000R. Just yesterday,...
MV Agusta is welcoming a Tamburini back into the company lab – and Andrea, son of the great Massimo, plans on giving the current Brutale lineup a complete makeover. “By the end of the year, we will officially present the restyling of the Brutale 1090, 990, and 920,” Andrea Tamburini...
Triumph Motorcycles is in the business of helping businesses recover from the pandemic – and they’ve recruited a star celeb...
Peter Davis, who founded Bloodbikes Australia has been rewarded for his tireless work with a Personalised Plate “BBA19” to mark the...
A Monash University Accident Research Centre professor has told the Australasian Road Safety Conference (28-30 September 2021) that mobile speed cameras need to be located in less predictable locations. Professor Maxwell Cameron‘s comments follow the recent Victorian Government announcement to increase mobile speed camera hours by 75%. He says the increased...
Britain-based Clews Competition Machines has just celebrated their 50th anniversary – and a key investor has popped out of the...
The EICMA, or Esposizione Internazionale Ciclo Motociclo Accessori (also known as the International Motorcycle and Accessories Exhibition), is back in...
In 2019, Bimota was essentially revived from the dead when Kawasaki bought a minority stake (49.9%) in the company. The Italian manufacturer, iconic for its bespoke pieces of machinery up until the turn of the millennium, was forced to file for bankruptcy. Now, two decades on, the merger with Kawasaki...
MV Agusta is ready to tear up the competition with their all-new, high-spec 2022 F3 RR – and according to...
Last year, the world received a Bond-themed Scrambler 1200, courtesy of the world’s largest UK-owned motorcycle manufacturer. This year, Triumph...
Here at MotorBikeWriter, we pride ourselves in bringing you news curated from all over the globe. We don’t discriminate, and there’s nothing that tickles us a prettier shade of pink than when we are digging up little gems for you to grin at on a dreary Monday afternoon. So, without...
Chinese-made motorcycles tend to catch a lot of flak for being sub-par, but over the last few years, a brand...
Honda has launched an adventure motorcycle that’s perfect for new riders to set out trail hunting on. It’s part of...
Yamaha has just announced that an update to the R15 V3.0 will be launching in India on September 21. From what we’ve seen of the bike so far, TimesNowNews and we expect only aesthetic changes that have been inspired by the bigger Yamaha R7. We also know that a new R15M variant...
Watch out, 2022 – this year’s Biker Fest International promises a long lineup of events and Europe’s Custom Bike Show...
California-based Zero Motorcycles are at the forefront of the electric motorcycle revolution, and it seems like the brand has had...
Australia is the second-most saturated market for Ducati ownership in the world, so the company pays a lot of attention to its Aussie customers. That means there are more Aussie Ducati owners per head of population than anywhere in the world outside of Italy. Consequently, the Bologna company showed a...
Not too long ago, Kawasaki took the incredibly smooth inline-four motor that powered the Z900 and put it in a...
Crashes involving motorcycles and cars are often referred to as SMIDSY incidents or “Sorry mate, I didn’t see you.” Many...
There is little doubt that dash cams have been pivotal in providing evidence for riders who have been involved in crashes. They are already a standard fitting in many transport company and emergency services vehicles. Some insurers are also offering discounts to motorists who have them fitted. The next step...
Xperi Holding Corporation has just struck an industry-first by having their ‘HD Radio’ digital infotainment product housed in a motorbike...
It’s a bird, It’s a plane – it’s the comfort-driven fraternal twin of the Brutale 1000 RR! Meet the 2022...
Royal Enfield has just pulled the cover on a very pretty version of the Classic 350, soon to be delivered to the UK for an early 2022 – and they’re keeping the single-cylindered ‘thump’ we have come to know and love. MCN states that the beauty of a beastie will...
Australian rider training organisation motoDNA is launching the world’s first data-driven motorcycling competition to find our next Casey Stoner MotoGP...
When BMW released the CE 04 Scooter back in November of 2020, they made quite the splash – after all,...
Honda is slapping the CB500F, CB500X, And CBR500R with a boatload of upgrades – and Europeans countrywide are going to benefit from the new 2022 perks. Honda tells Motorcycle.com that over 106,000 of these CB and CBR500 units were sold since the reveal of the bikes in 2013 – a...
When CFMoto’s 700 CL-X Sport, Heritage, and Adventure premiered at the 2019 EICMA Motorcycle Show, the Chinese bike made waves...
We’ve just had word that an iconic collection is going to auction from the 10th to the 11th of September...
In May of this year, Benelli’s parent company, the Qianjiang Motor Group, revealed an early prototype electric motorcycle at the 2021 Beiling Motor Show. According to NewsBytes, the bike was said to be on par with a standard 125cc petrol-powered motorcycle, such as the 125cc ICE motorcycle. This was due...
Every once and a while, a company comes along and reveals a product that reaches just a little further than...
Motor vehicle theft in Australia is now at its lowest figure since the start of the millennium thanks to the...
An Indian Electric two-wheel manufacturer named Ola Electric has just released their first scooter to India – and to say it makes light of the competition is an understatement. According to a report from RideApart, the S1 was revealed to the eager masses of India on August 15 and designed...
Strange line markings on corners could prevent riders from head-on crashes, according to a recent study by Austrian safety group...
India is about to be inundated with the all-new Indian Chief lineup, including the Chief Dark Horse, Bobber Dark Horse,...
In 1922, a group of passionate motorcyclists decided to hold an amateur race, christened “8 of the Langhe”. The route took riders from Cherasco to Narzole, past the Dolcetto di Dogliani vineyards and the typical Murazzano tomes. It wound through Calizzano, with the path twisting and turning beyond the Castelvecchio...
Queensland riders appear to have representation at government level once again more than 18 months after the Motorcycle Riders Association...
The Italian-designed, Chinese-made Moto Morini X-Cape 650 will soon be in Europe – and bargain pricing promises to follow hard...
NX200 Who? The Honda CB200X has just been released to the Indian masses – and the soft ADV tourer succeeded in pranking us all with the name choice. A few days ago, Honda filed a patent for a bike labeled the ‘NX200’. Rumors started to circulate with the assumption that...
As much as the increased energy limitations of Europe give me an occasional case of the bike blues, you can’t...
Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) has big plans for the European two-wheeler market – and they’re not playing with small numbers. ...
As an avid musician and a religious believer in ATTGAT (All The Gear All The Time), I’ve found quality motorcycle gloves with full knuckle support to be worth their weight in gold – all the more so if they allow my digits to breathe on those sweltering days between June...
One such anticipated reveal is the Xtreme 250 Electric Scooter – an extension of the wildly popular Xtreme 150i lineup,...
If there’s one vibe that invokes nostalgia, it’s the big hair, retro dance moves, and hardcore enduro raids of the...
It may be Friday the 13th, but it’s also International Blood Bikes Awareness Day and an opportunity for riders to give back to their community in a meaningful and fun way. The Blood Bikes movement began in the UK some 25 years ago and has since spread to Ireland, Hungary...
It’s happening, folks – the all-new Mercedes-Benz Direct-to-consumer Marketplace has just gone live in India! The platform has already been...
Well, folks, I’m not going to say I didn’t see this one coming…but boy, now the what if’s are really...
Well, folks, Round 10 of MotoGP has just concluded – and as expected, the Styrian GP gave our boys a run for their money. The competence of the course wasn’t lost on Motul-powered Team Suzuki and Pramac Racing, the latter of which secured their maiden victory after grinding for 20...