Aussie movie star, passionate motorcycle rider and motoring fan Eric Bana will play Mike “The Bike” Hailwood in a movie...
Harley-Davidson is still the world’s “strongest” motorcycle brand, although it has slipped 14 places in the annual list of automotive...
Now that Ducati’s adventure range of Multistradas and Scramblers are their most popular sellers, they are offering adventure training courses and treks. They call it Ducati Adventure Riding Experience (D-A-R-E) and it includes off-road training courses by Motor School and expeditions. It sounds very much like what BMW has been...
West Australian Steve Fraser is the current rider in Ducati’s worldwide Globetrotter 90th campaign where riders lap the world on...
Ducati Australia has recorded the biggest rise in sales for the company worldwide in 2021 with a 50% increase. Ducati...
Three-time World Superbike champion Troy Bayliss was on hand for the launch of the Ducati Scrambler Flat Track Pro and the 399cc Sixty2 learner Scrambler in Milan over night. SEE ALL THE SCRAMBLER PIX HERE The bikes were launched at a special presentation which was streamed live on the internet...
Ducati Australia has confirmed pricing and arrival for the new Streetfighter V4 which has been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic lockdown....
Chinese brand CFMoto is learning quickly.
Last year I tested the CFMoto 650NK, their top seller and a real bargain....
An Italian family and the previous Italian owner have joined the bidding to buy Ducati, along with Polaris, KTM, Can-Am Spyder company BRP, and Indian manufacturers. The latest list of potential buyers comes from Reuters which has been reporting on the deal since December 2015 from inside sources. Harley-Davidson had...
There has officially been a recall announcement made by Ducati North America on two of the XDiavel trim levels because...
Six iconic Ducatis from noted Queensland and Sydney collectors – all offered with no reserve – are among 32 classic...
Ducati and MV Agusta will ease back into production again from today in “phase 2” restrictions after an almost six-week lockdown due to the coronavirus. While supply of some models will take some time to meet orders, the good news is that R&D on new models has continued largely unabated...
We just had to share this video of a rude bear on a Ducati Scrambler on a highway somewhere in...
Price in Australia will be $19,990 (+ORC) and available now for pre-order, arriving in December/January....
Will Harley go to water when it releases its 2014 models in Denver, Colorado, in five weeks? Tough new European (Euro 5) and American emissions controls spell the end for some of our most famous air-cooled bikes, including the venerable MIlwaukee brand. That should send a shudder down the spine...
Ducati will unveil nine new models at 4.30pm tomorrow (Milan time, November 16, 2015) including a cruiser and possibly a...
An American study of customer satisfaction has found that dealers are offering more demo rides. The Pied Piper Prospect Satisfaction...
Ducati is adding an e-Scrambler urban electric bicycle to its small, but growing nascent range of e-bikes. The e-Scrambler (€3699/$A6065) trades off the popularity of the Scrambler range and joins their first e-mountain bike, MIG-RR (€6255/$A10,255), which was launched in October 2018. e-Scrambler Ducati says the e-Scrambler is “urban ready”...
Ducati seems safe from sale after two years of uncertainty over its future ownership with the Audi boss saying there...
This spy photo from Motorrad magazine seems to prove that Ducati is introducing a Multistrada V4 version as we tipped earlier this...
The 2016 Ducati Diavel Carbon arrives later this year in Asphalt Grey with a “cool” exhaust and weighing in the lightest of the “devil” power-cruiser range. The red and white Carbon models have been ditched in favour of Asphalt Grey with red stripes and Dark Chrome paintwork on the tank. Ducati...
A collection of motorcycles gathered over 40 years by motorcycle manufacturer and Grand Prix boss Giancarlo Morbidelli will be offered...
A collection of motorcycles gathered over 40 years by motorcycle manufacturer and Grand Prix boss Giancarlo Morbidelli is being offered...
Royal Enfield has increased its bid to buy Ducati to a reported €1.8 billion despite the Volkswagen board hung on a decision to sell the Italian motorcycle company. Indian automotive company Eicher Motors, who own Royal Enfield, have always been interested in buying the company since calls of interest were...
The future Scrambler Ducati could be a blend of Scrambler and Hypermotard judging by the winner of a recent design...
The new 2018 MotoGP season got underway with the Grand Prix of Qatar and continues this weekend in Argentina. As...
Ducati is poised to add two more Ducati Scrambler models to its fleet, an 803cc street motard and an 1100cc desert-racing Dakar model. Boss Claudio Domenicali showed the future direction for Scrambler at the recent launch of the 2020 model range in Italy. Among the new bikes is a Scrambler Icon...
Troy Bayliss was “stoked” at the end of the Brisbane Moto Expo today, despite missing out on the final of...
GT stripes have always given any vehicle an extra something that drives motorists wild and the two new Ducati Monster...
A Motorcycle So Clean You Could Consider It ‘Filthy’ Fully black liveries are nothing new in the motorcycle world. Many riders love to pair their fully blacked-out bikes with a black racing outfit for the maximum ‘road intimidation factor’. If you’re in the market for a Ducati Streetfighter V4 S...
The coronavirus pandemic has halted motorcycle manufacturing in the USA and Europe with BMW Motorrad the latest to temporarily stop assembly...
Ducati is tipped to be introducing a naked version of the Panigale. Industry rumours run thick at this time of...
Ducati has come out firing on all cylinders after a two-month factory closure and is about to start of production of their fastest bike yet, the Superleggera V4. The 167kW (224hp) Superleggera V4 was unveiled in February just before the pandemic shut down the factory and put the project on ice....
Riders are about to see a host of new models unveiled as motorcycle show season starts next week with three...
When Ducati launched the Monster more than a quarter of a century ago it instantly became their top-selling range and...
Australian motorcycle journalist Rennie Scaysbrook may forever hold the record for the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb in Colorado after the committee decided to suspend the motorcycle category next year. Their decision follows the death of four-time winner Carlin Dunne last month on the last turn while riding the Ducati Streetfighter V4 prototype. He was...
Ducati has unveiled the world’s most powerful street bike, the Panigale V4 1409, powered by the MotoGP-derived V4 Desmosedici Stradale...
Harley-Davidson has joined several other motorcycle manufacturers in temporarily suspending production due to the pandemic threat. The company announced it...
Veteran American racer Carlin Dunne has died in a crash only metres from the finish of the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb, riding the Ducati V4 Streetfighter prototype. There have only been six deaths in the event’s history, but organisers seriously considered dropping motorcycles after the two crashes in 2014-15. Instead, they...
Ducati has unveiled two new Scramblers, an entry level Multistrada (pictured above), Monster 797, 1299 Superleggera and updated 1200 Monster...
Ducati will take a step closer to an electric motorcycle when they introduce their first e-mountain bike, MIG-RR, next week. The...
Ducati has unveiled a gorgeous White Rosso livery for the Panigale V2 which debuted at the EICMA motorcycle show in Milan last year in Ducati Red. It is expected to be in European showrooms next month and in Australia in September. Price in Australia will be $23,350 ride away which...
Surprise, surprise, Ducati factory test rider Casey Stoner loves the new Ducati Multistrada 1200 Enduro. The two-time MotoGP champion won...
Why Buy New? Update the Old! The Multistrada’s styling isn’t for everyone. It is very obviously designed to be an...
New riders are spoilt for choice these days, including the special made-for-Australia Ducati Monster 659 ABS. Since the special learner-approved model launched in June 2011, 750 new riders have bought the Monster, making it the third-highest-selling naked model in Australia. Now Ducati Australia has dropped $1000 off the recommended retail...
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so a motorbike that one rider might consider beautiful could appear so...
Ducati finished 2018 with the highest number of safety recalls and starts 2019 with recalls for the Monster 821 (above),...
DUCATI DIAVEL ON ITS WAY? Ducati has been the target of many rumours in the past few months from a scrambler to running in the Open Class at the MotoGP. The last proved to be true, so the odds are stacked in favour of the latest rumour that the Italian...
Back in April we tipped Ducati would introduce both larger and smaller capacity versions of their top-selling Scrambler and now...
The Ducati Scrambler has quickly become the top-selling model, so the company has increased the range from four to six...
The MV Agusta Rivale 800 is the answer to the question: “What do sportsbike manufacturers do when sportsbike sales falter?” The Rivale 800 is the company’s belated entry into the hypermotard category which has been dominated by Italian rival Ducati with their Hypermotard 820. These are basically sportsbikes with the...
MV Agusta has been promising for some time that it will move into new fields such as small-capacity bikes and...
By Jim Bevin* 2020 is set to be a strange time for those who live outdoors and on the open road....
Ducati’s expansive phase of new models could be coming to an end and its MotoGP and WSBK campaigns placed in jeopardy as VW may be forced to sell the Italian motorcycle manufacturer. The Volkswagen Group faces enormous costs in vehicle recalls, government fines and class-action lawsuits over its falsifying of emissions data...
The Ducati Scrambler Hashtag 400 is now on sale as the world’s first motorcycle model only available online. As we...
Just a month after the new Ducati Scrambler 1100 PRO models have arrived in showrooms, the Italian company is announced...
Honda looks like following Kawasaki and Suzuki into a forced-induction future with turbocharged motorcycles while Ducati is also using turbine technology. Patent drawings have surfaced on the internet which show a Honda (pictured above) with a supercharged engine and a Ducati with a turbine in its exhaust system. However, it...
If you are a lover of rare Italian motorcycles and have overseas holiday money burning a hole in your wallet,...
Ducati looks like it is planning a GP-inspired Hypermotard 950 and a naked “streetfighter” version of its V4 Panigale. A...
It’s no surprise that BMW scored a host of awards in the 17th annual Motorrad magazine awards. The German magazine whose title means motorcycle in German attracted 48,118 votes of the people’s choice awards and unsurprisingly the German manufacturer scored 11 places in the top three of each category and won...