Aussie-made Dakar Rally film, Dream Racer, has won the Best Feature Film Award in New York at the 2015 Motorcycle Film Festival (September 23-27,... Read More
Australian Toby Price has achieved a stunning and significant third place in the world’s most gruelling motorsports event, the Dakar... Read More
Imagine having a tyre that changes its tread pattern when you go from tar to dirt and back again. Well, that could be the future with two motorcycle tyre designs in the top three of the biannual Hankook Tyre Design competition. The winning “Dakar” design by German university student... Read More
Is this tough, mud-spattered camo-painted off-roader the Honda Africa Twin? Honda rolled the bike out at the EICMA show in Milan... Read More
A record Dakar Rally altitude of 4300m claimed several high-profile riders in the third stage today including Australia’s Ben Grabham... Read More
It is little wonder KTM is so dominant in the Dakar Rally. I toured the factory early last year and was privileged to go across the carpark at their Mattighofen factory to the motorsport workshop and view them working on the bikes that Marc Coma and others are riding in... Read More
Dakar motorcycle legends including Marc Coma and defending champion Cyril Despres star in a five-minute Red Bull YouTube video to... Read More
The Dakar Rally is not just a motorsport event, but the ultimate adventure. MotorbikeWriter usually steers clear of motorsport, but... Read More
It didn’t take accessories company Touratech long to outfit the new water-cooled BMW R 1200 GS. Their Touratech R 1200 Rallye is one sexy beast. The GS prototype was designed on special request by Touratech CEO Jochen Schanz as a tribute to the company’s sporting past in events such as... Read More
You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll be inspired and you’ll drool at the exotic rally motorcycles in the new film Dream... Read More
Perhaps the ideal bike for Australia’s tough conditions was the brutish Honda Africa Twin, a robust, go-anywhere bike based on... Read More
One of the best motorcycle videos made is “Dream Racer” about the Dakar Rally, seen in selected cinemas around the country and now available on DVD. The feature-length movie is about French-African immigrant Christophe Barriere-Varju competing in the 2010 Dakar Rally in South America. Click here for the trailer. It highlights the 39-year-old... Read More
Guy Basile, 50, has been a Dakar Rally “tragic” since he was a teen. “When I was young I even... Read More
Just what you need for the Dakar … an all-wheel-drive bike! Suzuki thought of the idea way back in the... Read More