West Australian riders are invited to have their say on road safety initiatives at a public forum during WA Motorcycle Safety...
What’s on/clubs
What’s on around Australia and the world, charity events, rides, competitions, giveaways, TV shows, auctions, podcasts and more. We also invite motorcycle clubs, groups and organisations to tell us about themselves and their events and charity work.
For the first time, the Australia motorcycle industry has united to launch a National Ride Your Motorcycle to Work Week in...
http://youtu.be/M-gXpyjwGgg As the Honda Factory team dreams of breaking KTM’s 13 consecutive Dakar Rally wins, four Aussie motorcyclists will contest the gruelling event, including expat Simon Pavey and his son, Llewellyn, while legendary rider Cyril Despres will switch to cars. The rally starts on January 4 with daily edited one-hour screenings...
American Chopper is making a TV comeback as Orange County Choppers without Paul Teutel Jnr. After the dramatic falling out...
The annual Cannonball Charity Ride is heading overseas next year. Events manager Katie Warfield says their first overseas ride in...
A record number of rookies and women will contest the 41st Dakar Rally in January which will be held in one country for the first time. Chile, Argentina and Bolivia have pulled out of the event, leaving just the dunes and high altitude of Peru to tackle. The route The...
Brisbane motorcycle custom shop Ellaspede is running a new event called Backroads or Bust where you could be a winner...
Toowoomba motorcyclists will ride for the homeless on Sunday, May 22, 2016, for the annual Huggie Bear Memorial Blanket Run....
KTM is moving closer to a record 13th consecutive Dakar Rally win after three-time winner Marc Coma clinched the ninth stage today. The Spaniard was at home in the sand today, stretching his overall lead to 40 minutes over Honda rider and countryman Joan Barreda Bort who was second in...
The 29th worldwide, annual Ride To Work Day on Monday (15 June 2020) will be a great demonstration to the...
A Sunshine Coast couple are so smitten with the Moto Guzzi Club of Queensland Ruptured Budgie Rally, they are planning to...
Over more than 40 years, BMW Motorrad in Australia has offered riding safaris for road, dirt and extreme off-road situations. Last year, the GS Safari headed to Far North Queensland while the more extreme Enduro Safari headed west from Longreach. In 2022, both five-day safaris return to Tasmania for the...
Motorcycle swap meets are a great place to gawk at old bikes, but also a great place to find that...
Australian women want their world riding record back from the Poms and they have already set a date next year...
The seventh annual Living in the ’70s Motorcycle Show is on Saturday September 10, 2016, at TeamMoto Honda Springwood. Run by the Honda 750/4 SOHC Owners Club, the show usually attracts about 30 entrants over all classes. Apart from the usual grouping of Honda 4s and Kwaka 9s, there will...
The inaugural Iron Run rally in Queenstown next month is expected to be a rocking success. Rally spokesman Chris Elles...
A Hollywood stuntman plans to complete the steam-powered “motorcycle” rocket jump across Snake River Canyon that motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel...
The recently crowned world wheelie champion will bid for British and world speed records along with an 8000cc bike, a monowheel motorcycle, a motorised shed and a jet shopping trolley in the UK this week. The unlikely line-up will be taking part in the Straightliners automotive event at Elvington Airfield...
The golden days of motorcycle racing in Australia will be rekindled when “Mr Superbike” Rob Phillis returns to ride in...
Registrations have opened for Harley Days in October in Wollongong, the first open Harley-Davidson rally for all Australian riders. Harley-Davidson...
If you love the sight and sound of a small-capacity Italian motorcycle rasping along in a conga line through beautiful countryside, check out the seventh annual Moto Giro rally next week. The national event is being staged around Boonah and Woodford in the Brisbane hinterland from August 12-16. Organisers Peter Morrow and Trevor...
The 2016 Triumph Bonneville range and three new Ducatis will be flown out for the Sydney Motorcycle Show this month, while Honda...
First Aid For Motorcyclists courses are now available right across Australia and will soon be expanding to New Zealand, say...
York Motorcycle Festival in Western Australia will return on April 14-15, 2018, with a vintage hillclimb added to the schedule. More than 6000 people and plenty of riders were attracted to the festival last year when it was co-ordinated with the launch of Avon Valley as Australia’s first motorcycle friendly...
Female riders group Sisters on Steel is celebrating its third anniversary next month of riding and advocating against domestic violence....
Riders around Australia are invited to attend the Ride 4 Our Fallen Riders event next Sunday (24 June 2018) in...
Every rider must dream of discovering a “barn find” where you open the barn or shed doors and find a collection of valuable old bikes stashed away. Some people stumble upon them or inherit them in a will, but for Mark Bryan it’s hard work. His nickname is ‘El Granero’...
A two-hour feature film on the worldwide custom motorcycle phenomenon titled Oil in the Blood is coming to your computer...
Historic motorcycle racing is roaring back into life this weekend at Queensland’s historic Lakeside Park Raceway. There will be plenty of...
A video that focusses on the mental health issue of a rider and his family is being promoted to highlight the 2017 Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride (DGR). DGR has this year doubles its funds in support of men’s mental health on behalf of the Movember Foundation. The above video, called Survivor,...
A Harley-Davidson signed by Pope Francis is the holy highlight of the Bonham’s Autumn Stafford sale in the UK on...
At the half-way point of the 2o14 Dakar Rally with a well-deserved rest day there has already been a death...
Riders who buy tickets online for the 2016 Moto Expo in Melbourne will go in the running for an Asian motorcycle adventure holiday or a Royal Enfield Classic 350. The 15-day motorcycle trip for two on the Nevermind Adventures Motorcycle Tour is valued at $15,200 and rides through Nagaland which...
Bushfires in eastern NSW will not stop the Walcha Motorcycle Weekend from going ahead from Friday (15 November 2019). Walcha...
Don’t be a knucklehead! There is no need to go overseas to buy rare, significant and exotic motorbikes at auction....
The Kawasaki GPZ900R made famous in Tom Cruise’s 1986 Top Gun has a cameo revival in the the long-awaited Top Gun sequel. This official trailer for Top Gun: Maverick shows Tom’s character Maverick pulling an old tarp off a dusty old GPZ900R. However, when he reprises the famous scene where he...
The first Motorcycle Friendly Town in NSW opens up to riders this weekend with the first Wauchope Moto Fest this Saturday...
It’s not only birds that migrate south for the winter. In the US, bikes head to Florida, which means that...
The ninth annual York Motorcycle Festival in Western Australia is adding some adventure and celebrity to its events this year on Sunday 14 April 2019. Festival Director Peter Woods says the number of new attractions planned for the free event would help attract more than 6000 people. “This year we...
Brisbane women riders will set out on their own to raise funds and awareness for breast cancer this month. While...
You’d have to be mad in these days of Mid East conflict to want to ride a motorcycle to every...
A collection of rare motorcycles, cars, watches and cameras owned by a close friend of TV personality and motorcycle and car fanatic Jay Leno is being auctioned for charity. The Robert White Collection will be sold at Bonhams on September 19, 2016. Close friend Jay Leno described Robert as...
One rider could win a new BMW F 850 GS Rallye simply by attending the 2019 BMW GS Safari in...
Harley-Davidson has donated a customised electric LiveWire motorcycle autographed by the Davidson family to be auctioned to raise funds for the...
Riders will return to the Red Centre in 2020 to celebrate 10 years since the establishment of the first Black Dog Ride in 2010. This year’s Around Australia Ride celebrated founder Steve Andrew’s solo ride around Australia in 2009 to raise awareness for mental health issues. His epic ride was followed in...
Top-class international motorcycle road racers are expected to take part in an inaugural Sunshine Coast Tourist Trophy (SSC TT) in December...
It’s not every day you get to tear off the black motorcycle leathers and dress up in pink, frilly underwear!...
Gold Coast rider Greg Kelly, 61, was diagnosed with dementia in February but is now fighting back with Kell’s Ride on a Harley-Davidson Ultra Limited across Australia, New Zealand and the USA to raise awareness. “Dementia is the second-biggest killer in Australia and is predicted to be the biggest killer...
The so-called “motorcycle freedom” petition has clicked over 1000 signatures since it was posted on Change.org eight hours ago. Congratulations...
Dubbo in central NSW will declare a CBD street as Bike Street for motorcycles during the inaugural Dubbo Motorcycle Rally...
Four of Australia’s most highly credentialed motocross industry professionals are joining forces to revitalise the Australian Motocross Championship. MX legend Craig Dack from the CDR Yamaha Monster Energy team, Gavin Eales from Serco Motorsport and Yarrive Konsky from Penrite Honda Racing have partnered with longtime Honda team owner and former...
The third annual Woolshed Classic Motorcycle Rally on the Darling Downs will have a packed program later this month, says...
The Melbourne-based Toy Run For the Father Bob Maguire Foundation has been cancelled due the COVID restrictions of 50 people...
The second Ipswich Bike Night at the Ipswich Country Club is on this Saturday (April 1) and Motorbike Writer will have a stall where you can buy some of the products from our new online shop. Co-organisers Brad Palmer, duty manager of the Ipswich Country Club, and course superintendent Luke Nowlan say the first night...
The Spirit of Munro Indian streamliner which pays tribute to Kiwi Burt Munro will be one of the stars of...
Two black dogs were the stars of the annual Black Dog Ride that left from Brisbane this morning. Mandy and...
Predicting who will win the Dakar Rally is like playing the lottery, says four-time Dakar competitor Christophe Barriere-Varju of Sydney. Christophe’s 2010 bid is featured in the award-winning “Dream Racer” DVD and he will provide guest comments throughout our coverage of this year’s event, starting on Sunday. He says there...
One of the oldest four-stroke Hondas in Australia, a 1956 Honda SA250 Dream (like the one pictured above), will be...
Riding motorcycles is keeping alcoholics sober says Association of Recovering Motorcyclists (ARM) NSW Chapter spokesman Warren Cartledge. “For me, riding...
We know motorcycles are music to our ears and now Dutch musician Dominic Seldis has proven it by producing a special motorcycle symphony to promote this Sunday’s Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride. The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam musician has recreated Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss using only a range of different motorcycle exhausts....