“They may take away our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom … or the Davidson family cottage!” That’s the...
Australian riders have been urged to take part in an international survey on the quality and price of aftermarket motorcycle...
No sooner had I listed my 2018 Ducati Scrambler 1100 Sport for sale with an online classified site than I started to receive replies from scammers. They came via email, phone message and various social media platforms. The shortest was: Hi, what is your address? The longest and most elaborate...
A Victorian rider who got airborne over a series of potholes, corrugations and ruts on a regional road says the...
Gibson guitars and Triumph motorcycles have unveiled one-off models that celebrate the link between musical and motorcycle rockers. The 1959...
Several Australian states are now offering subsidies for motorists who buy electric cars, yet none has offered the assistance to riders. NSW, South Australia and Victoria have a limited-offer $3000 rebate for electric cars under $68,750 while Queensland sets the limit of $58,000 to exclude Teslas. Federal Chamber of Automotive...
Triumph Australia has recalled its new Trident 660 over an issue with the safety of the side stands. The official...
The current exorbitant fuel prices could force Australian motorcycle importers to rethink their strategy of not importing electric motorcycles and...
One of the first things your owner’s manual says is to read the manual first bed ore ring. But who does, especially when it is often longer than the turgid Jane Austen historical romance novel Pride and Prejudice at 364 pages. New research from the UK’s Scrap Car Comparison has...
VicRoads has just launched an updated Making Roads Motorcycle Friendly guide targeted at road designers and road maintenance crew to...
One of the most common motorcycle crashes is due to drivers not paying attention to them, according to British road...
Kids and big kids’ toy company Lego has added the original 1960s Vespa 125 model to its range of motorcycle scale models. It joins the Harley-Davidson Fat Boy, Ducati Panigale V4 R, BMW R 1200 GS and BMW boxer motorcycle engine in their two-wheeled range. The 1106-piece pastel pale blue...
All you old rockers should be tuning up for this supergroup — Triumph, Gibson and the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride (DGR)...
We hardly need research to tell us that weekends are the most dangerous time on Aussie roads — or any...
With Australia’s state borders completely open from next month and international travel open from today (21 February 2022) for vaccinated travellers, the issue of airport parking for motorcycles is back on the agenda. Bike parking at airports around the country varies substantially. Melbourne airport parking is among the most expensive...
It’s official – Kimi Räikkönen, formerly a Formula 1 racer with the nickname “The Iceman,” will become the new Team...
One of Australia’s most historic race circuits, Lakeside Park on Brisbane’s north side, will close its gates to most track...
Fresh-faced teenager James Weaver has been chosen by computer data to compete in the 2022 Oceania Junior Cup (OJC), the official Road to MotoGP series for young Aussie road racers. The 13-year-old NSW Central Coast rider was chosen via a world-first method developed by motoDNA whose Digital Academy technology is used to...
For years riders and other motorists have been asked to report road hazards such as potholes to their state road...
Australian Jack Miller has tested positive for Covid, pushing back the launch of the Ducati Lenovo MotoGP team. This comes...
Riders of Brisbane hinterland’s motorcycling Mecca that is Mt Glorious should be aware of upcoming roadworks that could delay their ride on the twisting tarmac. The Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) completed upgrades along the seven-kilometre section of Samford-Mount Glorious Road between Dawson Creek Road and Mount Glorious...
I cannot understand why it hasn’t happened sooner, but BMW Motorrad is only now applying for a patent of a...
Great news! The Queensland/NSW border reopens at 1am on Saturday 15 January 2022, opening some of the best riding in...
For the first time, Australia will host a round of the world supercross championship in 2022 after the Federation Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM) announced Australian company SX Global would take over the running of the series. SX Global, whose president is former V8 Supercars boss Tony Cochrane, will develop and...
Can-Am which makes three-wheeler “roadster” Spyder and Ryker motorcycles has been aiming its product and promotions toward women over the...
The newly formed Queensland Motorcycle Council is urging riders to fill out an online survey about motorcycling in Brisbane. They...
Who would have thought a couple of years ago when we first started seeing those strange electric Postie trikes on our footpaths that they would replace the iconic red Honda Postie bike? Well, now it’s official. Australia Post representatives have told a parliamentary inquiry into road safety that they are...
After an all-too-long halt due to unprecedented times, The Isle of Man TT is back – and we’re told that...
Yamaha Europe has just partnered with Crescent Racing to reveal a Special Edition WorldSBK R1 replica – and the extremely...
Triumph has just introduced their newly refreshed Tiger 1200 line – and they’re gunning for the big competition with their all-new 30-liter Explorers. Let’s get into it. Triumph hasn’t updated their Tiger 1200 in a hot minute – and with big fish like the Ducati Multistrada 1260 Enduro and the...
This 2021/22 summer will be a wet one in the eastern states of Australia due to the La Nina weather...
The award-winning Australian MotoCAP website has updated its safety ratings on jackets and pants and made significant changes to how...
Helmet attachments such as cameras and Bluetooth devices do not increase the risk of head or neck injury to the rider in a crash, according to a NSW Transport road safety report. As these devices have increased in popularity in recent years, several riders in several states of Australia have...
Aussie racer Remy Gardner, together with father Wayne Gardner, has just gone down in history as the second set to...
“I’m not saying your perfume is too strong…I’m just saying the Canary was alive when you got here.” Hold on...
Welcome back, NMC. TVS Motors has just opened the doors on the first global headquarters for Norton Motorcycle Company – and News18 states that the building not only has your generic state-of-the-art manufacturing capability, but that Solihull, West Midlands, UK now sports NMC’s new global design and R&D hub will...
As summer winds down and I see the clear signs from the weather gods that it is time to winterize...
As some jurisdictions are now replacing dangerous wire rope barriers, Victoria is forging ahead with 190km of the flexible barriers...
Commuter challenges where private vehicles compete with public transport are run in Australian cities from time to time, usually as PR for the virtues of cycling to work. However, we riders know that motorcycles and scooters are really the most efficient way to commute. This has again been proven by...
Harley-Davidson Australia has recalled their 2003-05 Sportster XL883R and XL1200R models over an issue with the front brakes. It is...
Three years after lampooning the Labor Party’s policy on electric vehicles, Scomo’s about-face Future Fuels strategy has been hailed as...
Ruroc‘s Motorcycle gear line has just announced a site-wide sale in commemoration of Black Friday – and as if the 30% discount weren’t enough, they’ve also given us three sweet items to add to the wardrobe. Based out of the UK, EngineHawk is on a mission “to revolutionize the motorcycle apparel...
We’ve just had word that Brembo has just bought out Spanish Company J Juan braking Systems (the same as in...
Yamaha has just released some new details on 2022 XSR900 – and I’m digging the retro graphics. With the MT-09...
Hollywood actor Tom Hardy trades his personal Triumph Thruxton R is back on a Ducati for the second instalment of the Venom Marcel Comics movie. In the first Spiderman spinoff movie in 2018, the actor and motorcycle fan rode a Scrambler Full Throttle. For Venom 2, Eddie Brock, the motorcycle-loving, symbiote-inhabiting anti-hero...
Oliver Bayliss, the 18-year-old son of Australia’s three-time World Superbike champion Troy, will follow in his father’s tyre tracks to...
It’s no secret that China sports a large motorcycle community – many brands of which are new and strange to...
Happy 120th, Royal Enfield! With the company’s celebrations, the Indian multinational motorcycle manufacturers have given us an exclusive range of top-quality, limited edition helmets. 12 helmets have been created for the occasion – one for each decade of work that Royal Enfield has been giving the masses beautiful bikes to...
It’s official – Honda Motor Company Ltd. has just dropped their anticipated adventure bike – and considering we covered 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 India on October 28th – a scant nine days from now. According to FinancialExpress, the Pulsar 250F is more of a celebratory bike, launched to herald 20 years of the...
Team Green is fixing to release a beastie into the European market – and many are rating the bike as...
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 on going all-electric by the year 2035. The company means business, and they’ve just backed their 2019 patent for a hybrid bike with a new prototype, revealed as the beastie...
Four years after melting tar on the Mt Glorious Rd west of Brisbane in 2017 resulted in at least one rider...
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...