Black Dog Ride founder Steve Andrews has resigned from the mental health charity after facing up to his own issues...
The annual Black Dog Ride will head to Tassie instead of the Red Centre for the first time in eight...
Even though the pandemic has forced the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride to go solo this year, Triumph Motorcycle is back on board as the major sponsor. DGR operations manager Ramsey Sayed says the event will still go ahead on 27 September 2020 around the globe, but as a “ride solo, together”...
Social riding group BOOBs (Babes Out On Bikes) is raising money for one of their riders to buy a trike...
Supporting the Cause Chrissy Rouse and Dom Herbertson are no strangers to the world of motorsport. Chrissy is the 2020...
You could win a Ducati Monster 1200 S and help the Ducati Owners Club of Victoria celebrate their 40th anniversary while also raising money for the Victorian Spinal Cord Service. The bike is worth $26,000 and was donated at cost price by Frasers and Mornington Ducati are providing riding gear...
‘Tis the season for Christmas Toy Runs with three major charity events this weekend in the far north and south...
Henry Crew, 22, only got his motorcycle licence three-and-a-half years ago but is now well into his bid to become...
Organisers of the inaugural Ride Sunday charity motorcycle event have declared it a success, defended their cut of the funds raised and vowed to return in 2018. The July 2, 2017, event attracted 1883 riders in 62 countries and raised more than $US65,000 for 55 charities. It was initiated by...
Ride for Kids is the longest-running, most successful motorcycle charity event in the nation – and Comoto, America’s largest Powersports...
Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride founder Mark Hawwa (pictured) of Sydney has launched another international charitable motorcycle ride event called Ride Sunday...
You just can’t stop motorcycle riders from doing their bit for worthwhile charities – even Movember! Here at MotorbikeWriter we love to support riders in their chosen charity work and the latest charity ride to come to our attention is the fourth annual Ride For Your Life through the Perth...
If you want to secure your helmet on your motorcycle and help animal rescue efforts after the bushfires, buy a Helmet...
Black Dog Ride Australia (BDRA) is seeking the views of riders to determine its future direction after a couple of...
A new BMW R nineT Scrambler valued at $21,480 is up for grabs in the fourth annual motorcycle raffle to benefit national suicide prevention charity Black Dog Ride. Tickets are $50 each and limited to 2000 tickets with the raffle closing on November 7 and the winner drawn on November...
Harley-Davidson has donated a customised electric LiveWire motorcycle autographed by the Davidson family to be auctioned to raise funds for the...
So what is the fallout from the 80th annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally last week, the biggest mass gathering in the...
Riders and non-riders are invited to attend the second annual DV Ride in Ipswich on Sunday (May 7,2017) to raise money and awareness for domestic and family violence and sexual assault support. DV Ride coordinator and Ulysses Club Ipswich Branch secretary Amanda Pamenter says they had more than 400 riders last...
Famous charity riding couple Tex O’Grady and his cattle dog Bundy have raised millions for the needy and now they...
Bikers for Autism Australia hopes to raise money this Sunday (August 30, 2015) for a Sunshine Coast family doing it...
Many Australian toy runs were either cancelled, scaled ack or held virtually last year due to the pandemic restrictions. The oldest, longest continually running and perhaps the biggest toy run, Bikers for Kids Newcastle Toy Run in Newcastle, was restricted to just 50 motorcycles. This year the 44th running of...
Brisbane rider Terri Barclay is riding more than 5500km around Queensland with the Black Dog Ride in memory of her...
The Ducati Owners Club of Victoria has celebrated their 40th anniversary by raising $32,750 for the Victorian Spinal Cord Service. The funds were...
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...
The Blood Bikes volunteer rider movement delivering blood to hospitals has spread to Australia and the co-ordinator is now calling...
It might seem early to be registering for the 10th annual Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride, but the event has been moved forward...
Ride Against Drought organisers have today made a “heart-breaking decision” and cancelled the fundraising October 27 event, deeming the weather too fickle to ensure success. RAD was originally planned to be held on Saturday 6 October 2018 to raise money for drought-stricken farmers. Ironically, it was rained out and postponed three...
Famous charity riding couple Tex O’Grady and his cattle dog Bundy have racked up a million kilometres while raising funds...
Sixty-five Aussies are off to the US next week for the first international Black Dog Ride, raising money and awareness...
The exponential growth of the global Distinguished Gentlemen’s Ride continues with 131 more rides in cities around the world this year. Last year, the DGR raised more than $US1.6 for prostate cancer research around the world with 20,000 distinguished gents and ladies turning out in more than 235 cities in 55...
Tickets are now available for the third annual Black Dog Ride to the World Superbikes at Phillip Island in 2020...
The third annual Camp Quality Victory Convoy of motorcycles and trucks on April 30 hopes to raise $150,000 to give...
Bookings for the annual Black Dog Ride that this year heads to Tassie instead of the Red Centre have been extended. Organisers have secured an extension for the Spirit of Tasmania ferry crossings, which means registrations for full rides to Hobart are now open until September 15. If you can’t...
The official unveiling of a custom Hellboy Harley-Davidson called Big Red will be the highlight of a fundraising event for...
The second annual Brisbane Motorcycle Street Care blanket run on Saturday will help collect blankets to give out to the...
Up to 10,000 people are expected to participate in the 40th annual Melbourne Motorcycle and Classic Car Toy Run on Sunday (December 17, 2017) at Tabcorp Park in Melton. Victorian Motorcycle Council chairman Rob Salvatore says the “traditional annual motorcycle charity toy run is an institution in Melbourne”. He estimates...
After several Australian toy runs were cancelled, restricted or went “virtual” in 2020 due to the Covid pandemic, it appears...
The fifth annual Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride (DGR) is on again worldwide on September 25 2016 and for the first time the...
Group motorcycle rides – even for charities – have been banned in one UK council area unless riders inform police and the local council first. Harlow Council in Essex has banned motorcyclists in groups of two or more from riding together between 10am and midnight until April 2017 without council...
After a lengthy period of toy runs in the lead-up to Christmas, we arrive at the last weekend for the...
A World Superbikes tour, a visit to the Top End and heaps more One Dayer events are scheduled for the...
The seventh annual Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride on 30 September 2018 will double their allocation of funding toward mental health. Founder Mark Hawwa of Sydney says they have increased their allocation of funding toward mental health from 20% to 40% for The Movember Foundation. That means 60%, rather than 80%, will go toward...
As the biker toy run season nears its end this weekend, the Salvos (Salvation Army of Australia) have thanked the...
All riders on all types of bike are invited to take part in the third annual Ride Sunday on 10...
Out riding at the weekend, I noticed a few signs with Santas on them and some riders are already talking about the Christmas Toy Run season. Motorcycle riders are a charitable bunch, raising money for all sorts of worthy causes. But the biggest charity events are usually the toy runs...
Fanatical rider Timothy William McKenzie lost his life on September 1 2016 and now his struggling family is seeking financial...
It might seem early, but we are already compiling a list of Toy Runs around the nation and need your...
Riders are asked to bring old motorcycle jackets as donations for the 35th annual Blanket Run to aid homeless in the nation’s cold capital city on Saturday May 14, 2016. The Motorcycle Riders Association of the ACT (MRA ACT) has been supporting the Salvation Army and raising money and donating...
You could win a Harley-Davidson Roadster in a raffle as part of the fifth annual Hogs For The Homeless footy...
Riders will return to the Red Centre in 2020 to celebrate 10 years since the establishment of the first Black Dog...
MotoGP superstars such as Valentino Rossi will help a five-year-old Sydney girl with a rare children’s cancer when 102 personal items are auctioned online this month. In January this year, a Sydney single mother of three was told her five-year-old daughter, Freyja, had a rare, aggressive and incurable form of cancer....
Australian custom motorcycle brand Deus Ex Machina has pimped a postie bike for ChildFund Australia to send to Cambodian families...
Former Gold Coast rider Kenn Bannister is riding solo from London to Africa and back over almost 2000km of Sahara...
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....
The Gold Coast Black Dog Ride 1 Dayer will go ahead on Sunday (March 20, 2016) despite Queensland Police failing to assure...
The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride has had a record year, raising $US5.8m (about $8.2m) for men’s cancer research and mental health...
Motorcycle riders don’t need much of an excuse to go for a ride to raise money for some needy charity organisation – and the annual Canberra Blanket Run is no exception. Australian Motorcycle Council chairman Shaun Lennard conservatively estimates that riders raise more than $1 million a year. that’s very...
Sandra Moran set off to ride around Australia in 2015 to raise awareness for depression after her son, Jaie, took...
One lucky rider in the annual Black Dog Ride 1 Dayers on March 19, 2017, will win a Scout donated...
Australia’s first Dream Ride to raise money for Special Olympians will be held in conjunction with the MotorWorld show at Sydney Motorsport Park in December. About 15 of these Dream Rides have been held in the SA, but this first Australian Dream Ride on Sunday, December 4, 2016. It will...