South East Queensland riders are invited to attend a major safety education display at Nerang this Sunday after a horror... Read More
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.
Triumph has paid an undisclosed sum to feature in the 25th James Bond film, No Time to Die, but a Ducati... Read More
Marc Marquez missed out on a seventh successive victory at the MotoGP in Texas, but he remains the man to beat in this season’s championship. Marquez was leading by almost four seconds when he lost control of his Honda on the ninth lap, allowing Alex Rins to claim a surprise... Read More
Nine Indian Motorcycle owners have started an independent online forum to discuss issues, share tips and express their passion for... Read More
KTM is moving closer to a record 13th consecutive Dakar Rally win after three-time winner Marc Coma clinched the ninth... Read More
Triple tragics return to Evans Head in the Northern Rivers region later this month for the eighth annual Aussie Triples Classic Motorcycle Rally. The event was started eight years ago by Col and Nancy McAndrew as a one-off rally for “triple tragics”. The Aussie Triples rally on August 18-20 is for Triumph Tridents and... Read More
Rider tickets for the third annual 2016 Ellaspede Dust Hustle fun race event went on sale last week and sold... Read More
Riders will be able to get expert safe-riding tips, legal advice and guidance on safety gear from three of the... Read More
Leading Australian motorcycle stuntman Robbie Maddison has recreated his famous riding-on-water stunt in Sydney’s Darling Harbour. The performance was for the media only, but the public can see him over the weekend. Robbie will perform the stunt twice on the Saturday and Sunday of the 2017 Sydney Motorcycle Show at... Read More
Riders have been urged to support a Bad Roads Rally to the Victorian Parliament next Tuesday (May 8, 2018) to... Read More
KTM motorcycles featured in the adventure film, Motonomad – a 7000km journey from Austria to Egypt – and the follow-up... Read More
The must-do First Aid for Motorcyclists has announced its schedule of courses around Australia for 2016, along with a partnership with a similar British course. You can see all the dates here. The four-hour courses cost $78 and their schedule includes nine courses each in Victoria and Queensland, five in... Read More
Motorcycle fans will get a dose of motorcycle-inspired art at the 2017 Sydney Motorcycle Show in November. Event organiser and... Read More
The world’s most gruelling and dangerous motorsport event, the Dakar Rally, has again been marred by the death of a... Read More
Marc Coma has clinched his fourth Dakar Rally and the 13th consecutive title for KTM. Strolling in on the penultimate stage in a leisurely 18th position, the Spaniard leads by an unassailable 1.52:27 hour lead over his water carrier Jordi Viladoms for a KTM 1-2 victory with just the short... Read More
More than 90 riders ushered the Women Riders World Relay (WRWR) into Queensland today, including the only woman who plans to ride... Read More
(MotoGP 2020 by Charlotte Hallam*) The MotoGP 2020 season is set to excite us once again in its latest season which starts... Read More
Queensland police have rejected a road closure application for next weekend’s Lions TT. However, the event will go ahead with the road closed to oncoming traffic only on the NSW side. The Lions TT is a recreational ride – not a race – conducted on the picturesque Lions Rd that... Read More
This video of former Top Gear and now Grand Tour presenter James May reassembling a Honda Z50 “monkey bike” over... Read More
What’s the best part about a motorcycle rally? It’s the ride to get there! Harley-Davidson Australia and New Zealand is... Read More
The 2017 Harley-Davidson Iron Run will return to Queenstown in the South Island of New Zealand where the inaugural event was held last year. Meanwhile, thousands of riders and pillions are pouring into Paihia in the Bay of Islands in the far north of the country for the 2016 Iron... Read More
Ducati owners clubs around Australia have been celebrating 40 years of the owners clubs in Australia this year with a... Read More
Aussie and Kiwi Harley-Davidson dealers will compete in the annual global Battle of the Kings custom bike competition for the second... Read More
Up to 1000 women will descend on Dubbo next weekend to reclaim their world record for the largest gathering of female riders and set a record for the largest all-female motorcycle parade. The 2WheelBabes Babe Raid set the original record in 2014 when 284 women rode to the coastal NSW... Read More
The seventh annual Living in the ’70s Motorcycle Show is on Saturday September 10, 2016, at TeamMoto Honda Springwood. Run... Read More
For the first time, the Australia motorcycle industry has united to launch a National Ride Your Motorcycle to Work Week in... Read More
One of the “bad-assest” custom motorcycles from the popular TV series Sons of Anarchy, the 2013 Custom Hellrazor, is going up for auction in September. The bike, built by Rusty Coones (Rane Quinn on the show) and Illusion Cycles, is expected to fetch more than $100,000, says Hudson Stremmel of... Read More
Long before amateur custom bike builders fused Triumph engines into Norton featherbed frames to make the Triton in the 1960s... Read More
If you’ve ever wanted to buy a bike at auction, it might be time to consider as there are eight... Read More
The success of the Joe Rider motorcycle awareness campaign initiated by the Motorcycle Riders Association of the ACT is now spreading throughout NSW. Riders wearing “Joe” one their vests to alert drivers to the presence of riders on the road is once again a major part of the ninth annual... Read More
Australia’s best-named motorcycle rally, the Ruptured Budgie Rally, will continue its fund-raising tradition in May. Organisers say the bank foreclosed... Read More
The organiser of an anti-VLAD meeting says he has encountered nothing but grief from hotels where he hoped to stage... Read More
Shortly after the low-budget film Easy Rider shook up Hollywood, venerated director Orson Welles exploited the outlaw biker image with his film The Other Side of the Wind. It was never finished, but the avant-garde movie about Hollywood has now been completed and will screen on Netflix in November. The... Read More
It might seem early to be registering for the 10th annual Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride, but the event has been moved forward... Read More
The annual Aldi motorcycle gear sale, normally held in the first couple of Saturdays of August, has been delayed this year... Read More
Riders can make a dream ride come true for people with an intellectual disability and have the opportunity to ride around Sydney Motorsport Park at the Soar & Roar Festival on Sunday, December 9, 2018. The event raises funds for Special Olympics Australia. Spokesman Aaron Henry expects thousands of riders to... Read More
“Bra Maids” will help organise riders in the 14th annual Bras n Bikes Breast Cancer Fundraiser Ride run on Sunday,... Read More
If adventure travel takes your fancy, the Adventure Travel Film Festival at Bright in Victoria will no doubt whet your... Read More
A World Superbikes tour, a visit to the Top End and heaps more One Dayer events are scheduled for the 2018 Black Dog Ride agenda. All rides raise funds and awareness for mental health issues. Black Dog Ride’s new CEO David Peach says “awareness is the best catalyst for promoting... Read More
The annual NSW Motorcycle Awareness Week has this year been expanded to a full month of activities, including a special... Read More
Toby Price looks set to score an historic first win for an Australian in the world’s most gruelling motorsport event, the Dakar... Read More
Any club member – not just motorcycle clubs – could face extensive jail time for relatively minor offences under the Queensland Government’s Vicious Lawless Association Disestablishment Act. That’s the considered decision of Brisbane criminal law firm Guest Lawyers who describes the VLAD Act as “incredibly broad” in its reach. Click... Read More
Queensland police and Transport Main Roads department officials will be on hand next month to answer riders’ questions on legislation,... Read More
Social worker Julie Jasper is riding a 1942 Indian 741 Military Scout around Australia to encourage young domestic violence victims... Read More
The historic Lakeside Park circuit where the likes of world champions Wayne Gardner and Mick Doohan once raced will see a return to superbike racing this weekend with the Dunlop Super Series. It’s been nearly 20 years since superbikes tore around the historic north Brisbane circuit. It was nearly closed down... Read More
Organisers of the Father Bob Toy Run in Melbourne’s St Kilda on Sunday, December 13, 2015, are looking for some... Read More
The baton in the Women Riders World Relay arrived for the Australian leg yesterday with about 58 women riding out of Perth. Among them... Read More
An online petition has been started against the Queensland Government’s proposed legislation that discriminates against people riding motorcycles. The petition is being run through Change.org rather than the government’s own ePetition since the red tape involved with the latter would mean it may not be ready in time for the... Read More
The world’s biggest motorbike show has been postponed from this November for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, switching... Read More
A significant European collection of 16 Italian motorcycles is a highlight of the Spring Stafford Sale on April 23, 2017, that should whet... Read More
The unique Dukes Road Old School Bikers Social Club has established a clubhouse in a rural setting to provide riders with free camping and facilities for meetings and social occasions. It is based on Dukes Rd, Cooyar, on the Darling Downs about 90km north of Toowoomba on a 40-hectare (100 acres) property. Spokesman... Read More
The fourth annual Mods V Rockers ride in Brisbane on Sunday (May 28, 2017) is raising money for Youngcare to... Read More
A 1960 Harley-Davidson FL Duo Glide that spent 37 years sitting in a shed in Queensland headlines Shannons’ Timed Online Classic... Read More
The final series of Temporary Australians premieres on Saturday January 27 2018 on 7mate at 10am with a special tribute to the late Greg Hirst. The TV series was started in 2008 by “Hirsty” who passed away on June 6, 2017, from complications after surgery. Thousands attended his funeral in... Read More
The 59 Club is the one of the oldest continuous motorcycle clubs in the world with branches in the UK... Read More
The earliest known Harley-Davidson Sportster in existence could be yours. The first-year model believed to be the 10th XL883 produced... Read More
The third annual KTM Australia Adventure Rallye will head into the Northern Territory outback on previously unridden tracks and trails. The event is so remote, the organisers will have a helicopter available if med-evac or bike-evac is required. The two first two events were held on the east coast. For... Read More
Blokes will be invited to take part in the Babe Raid rally at Dubbo in November when male and female... Read More
A boyhood dream to one day own classic Japanese motorcycles from the 1980s and 1990 is now going up for... Read More
Organisers of the seventh annual Throttle Roll in Sydney next Saturday (18 May 2019) say it will be their biggest yet. To celebrate they are giving away a double pass to a lucky Motorbike Writer reader. Just leave your name and a photo of your bike in the comments section... Read More