More than any other clothing, getting the right fit in your motorcycle gear is vital. Over a long day in... Read More
Pairing helmet intercoms used to be a fiddly process, but now QR codes are making it easier. You may have... Read More
European riding gear manufacturer Macna have released Bora Pants designed to complement their new Aerocon Adventure Jacket for the coming Aussie summer. Like the jacket, the pants meet stringent new European CE safety standard EN17092 protection standards. They are made of 600D Ripstop Polyester Nylon and Polyester Mesh which makes them... Read More
Is the Suzuki V-Strom 1050XT the Goldilocks of sport adventure tourers? You know, not too cold and not too hot,... Read More
American start-up KIRSH Helmets has started producing helmets that have a slimmer shell without compromising safety. Instead of thick EPS... Read More
Ducati Australia has announced pricing and delivery for the updated Scrambler 1100 PRO and Sport PRO models. They arrive in September at $A18,400 ride away for the PRO and $A21,100 for the Sport PRO. That compares with current 1100 Scrambler prices ranging from $19,790 to $22,990 for the Sport edition with Öhlins suspension. When... Read More
The top-selling electric motorcycle company in the world, Zero Motorcycles, looks like it is heading off-road. The Californian company has... Read More
BMW Motorrad has issued two recalls in North America for leaks in brakes and real tanks for a variety of... Read More
Triumph has issued a global recall over wiring issues for its 900cc Street Twin and Street Scrambler models. The issue revolves around the movement of the handlebars which inputs could damage the wiring harness over time due to a misrouted harness. The wiring harness may make contact with the lower... Read More
It is a certain bet that BMW will introduce more variants of the R 18 – their first cruiser in... Read More
The fourth annual Australian Ride your Motorcycle to Work Week next month has been changed to simply “Ride your Motorcycle”... Read More
Australian motorcycle riders are the happiest motorists on the road, even in these COVID times, according to a new survey. The new research survey was conducted by YouGov and commissioned by ING who is launching their new Motorcycle Insurance. It found that 82% of motorcyclists say riding makes them happy,... Read More
Two 250cc Benelli Grand Prix racing motorcycles have broken the auction world records for the marque at the live and... Read More
So what is the fallout from the 80th annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally last week, the biggest mass gathering in the... Read More
Motorcyclist and road safety researcher Ross Blackman (pictured) has waded into our debate last week about whether roadworks speed limits are appropriate. Ross works with the Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety – Queensland (CARRS-Q) at the Queensland University of Technology in the areas of both motorcycle safety and... Read More
Have you ever wondered why so many motorcycle riders have beards and whether you should join the club? It may... Read More
Bike fan, Hollywood actor and “Long Way” collaborator Ewan McGregor gets to keep most of his impressive collection of motorcycles... Read More
A teenage rider has now been charged following investigations into a fatal motorcycle crash that occurred in NSW earlier this year. A Toyota Aurion and a motorcycle collided about 11.30pm on Sunday 10 May 2020 on Hertford Street, Berkeley. Lake Illawarra Police Area Command officers found a 17-year-old boy and... Read More
New Harley-Davidson boss Jochen Zeitz has bought about $US2 ($A2.8) million of company shares just weeks after announcing a 30% cut... Read More
(Contributed post for our Southern California readers) If you ride a motorcycle in Orange County or anywhere else in southern... Read More
A new BMW Motorrad patent for a carbon fibre swingarm brings the hi-tech, lightweight technology closer to mass production through a manufacturing process that makes it more affordable. In 2018, BMW Motorrad won a JEC Innovation Award for the development and manufacture of a carbon fibre swingarm for its 2017... Read More
A teenager is “assisting police with inquiries” after a rider standing on a Gympie highway ramp was struck by an... Read More
A 43-year-old male driver has been bailed in a Sydney court today over the death of a motorcycle pillion and... Read More
One of the main concerns about motorists swapping to electric vehicles is that they would place an even bigger drain on the already strained power grid. However, some electric cars and now the Damon Hypersport electric motorcycle have what they call “smart chargers” that actually prop up the grid. This... Read More
Motorcycle riders are about to inherit a bad reputation around the world as hundreds of thousands crowd into the 80th... Read More
Yamaha is the first major manufacturer to give some credence to the theory that future motorcycles and other vehicles could... Read More
Riders could be torn to shreds by a rough “tyre-shredding” road surface designed to stop “hoons” doing burnouts and drifting, according to an ex-bike cop and now riding instructor. George Foessel joined Queensland Police in 1983 and became a bike cop and a driver/rider trainer as well as a qualified... Read More
While roadworks speeds in some jurisdictions can be as low 40km/h (25mph), the UK may be heading toward a standard... Read More
This video of a 2m snake attacking a motorcycle rider in Lampang, Thailand, will send shivers down your spine! Many... Read More
(Contributed article for our North American readers) People love motorcycles because of their low purchase cost, ease of maintenance, fun and adventure. These machines, though, pose an extra risk to riders. Riders are more susceptible to injury and death due to the lack of protection in the event of an... Read More
This image from the Chinese Patent Office shows a Qianjiang QJ350 motorcycle with a parallel twin engine stamped with the... Read More
(Contributed article for our North American readers) There are several reasons why you might need to ship a motorbike across... Read More
Bloodbikes Australia is playing an integral part in transporting COVID-19 tests from suburban testing centres to medical laboratories. Founder Peter Davis says they recently extended their free service offers from delivering blood to other medical products including breast milk. However, they are currently being primarily deployed to take COVID-19 tests... Read More
(Contributed post for our North American readers) Since the COVID-19 pandemic caused worldwide upheaval and triggered a flurry of policies... Read More
A 52-year-old driver who ploughed his Kia Rio head-on into several club riders in Kyogle, northern NSW, killing one and... Read More
While a motorcycle festival in France has been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, the world’s biggest motorcycle rally in the USA will go ahead next week despite almost 1000 Americans dying every day. Wheels and Waves Even a week ago, the Wheels & Waves event at the Biarritz Lighthouse... Read More
Harley-Davidson is expected to pull out of some Asian and Latin American markets as part off a “Rewire” strategy to... Read More
America’s two major motorcycle companies have reported a coronavirus-led flop in motorcycle sales for the second quarter. Harley-Davidson reported a... Read More
(Sponsored post) Bikes and cars both have their benefits. Not that cars are any less useful, this article focuses more on promoting motorcycles. We have discussed why you should prefer to get a motorcycle instead of a car. Car is more useful when it’s snowing or raining; otherwise, bikes have... Read More
A motorcycle safety advocate who crashed his motorcycle has been gifted a Honda VFR800 as a replacement after launching a... Read More
Honda’s CBR1000RR-R Fireblade SP superbike has been inducted into the prestigious Red Dot Design Museum in Essen, Germany. It took... Read More
A motorcycle safety advocate who crashed his motorcycle has launched a GoFundMe page to replace it so he can continue his advocacy work and support his sick wife. UPDATE: He has now been gifted a replacement bike. Click here to read the article. John Nelson, 63, says he crashed his Honda... Read More
A male rider in his 60s crashed his motorcycle into a ditch on a lonely country road north of Mebourne... Read More
The freedom of riding pillion on her husband’s motorbike is being made possible for Brisbane woman Christine Seary, with the... Read More
Apart from being considered dangerous by motorcycle riders, wire rope barriers are also unfair and discriminate against motorcycle and scooters riders, says an Australian university road safety professor. The professor who wishes to remain anonymous points out that WRBs are officially acknowledged as posing more danger to riders and therefore... Read More
Australian car parking costs, which are among the highest in the world, should make motorcycling more attractive as bike parking... Read More
(Contributed article by Check4Lead for our North American readers) If you start looking around the internet, it is no surprise... Read More
Highly awarded disability advocate Sue Salthouse has died after a collision between her wheelchair-accessible motorcycle and a car in Canberra yesterday afternoon (20 July 2020). Sue, aged 71, was left with a broken back and wheelchair bound after a horse riding accident in 1995. Following the accident, she has advocated... Read More
Victorian police and health officials have left motorcycle riders in the dark over whether helmets are suitable and legal substitutes... Read More
A Sydney woman is serving an 18-month jail term after she fled the scene of a crash in which her... Read More
Rider, driver, biker, bikie, motorcyclist or even cyclist are used for the person who sits in the front seat of a motorcycle, holds the handlebars and operates the throttle, brake and clutch. But what is the correct term? Rider I usually used the term “rider” which seems to be the... Read More
(Sponsored article for our North American readers) Motorcycle accidents are among the most statistically common types of traffic collisions. The... Read More
A female pillion rider in her 40s has died in a three-vehicle crash in Sydney’s south west today (19 July... Read More
A 39-year-old man has died after his motorcycle hit a guide post near Tamworth about 4pm yesterday (17 July 2020). The accident happened on Mooni Gap Road, near Upper Moore Creek Road, Moore Creek, about 20km north of Tamworth. Police were told the rider was thrown from the motorcycle after... Read More
A positive by-product of the COVID-19 pandemic seems to be a renewed interest in the open road, with motorcycle rider... Read More
As Jack Miller prepares to return to MotoGP racing this weekend, a video has been released of a motocross track... Read More
While wire rope barriers continue to be rolled out in Australia despite growing anger from riders, Irish authorities have admitted they are potentially dangerous to riders. UK riders rights The Motorcycle Action Group held a meeting earlier this month with the Northern Ireland Department for Infrastructure who accepted that wire rope crash... Read More
An automotive group is calling for a”fairer” distance-based user-pays road tax system and incentives to encourage more people to take... Read More
A 55-year-old Toyota Hi-Lux driver who hit and injured a woman, 34, riding a Vespa scooter last August before driving off... Read More
Most riders in the American state of Missouri will soon be able to ride without a helmet if they are aged 26 or more and have health insurance. That leaves only 19 out of 50 states where all riders must wear a helmet. This is not the first time Missouri... Read More