The makers of the award-winning feature-length motorcycle documentary Why We Ride are now planning to release a film about the...
The first open Australian Harley-Davidson rally, called Harley Days, held at Wollongong over the weekend was a “home run” for...
The NSW country town of Walcha is putting on a special show for those who are still planning to ride there despite the last-minute axing of the Freak Show Festival of Motorcycles and national Harley Owners Group (HOG) rally. Organisers for the axed events have gone into liquidation and refunds are not...
Riders can win a Indian Chief Dark Horse at the Revving the River Rally from Melbourne to Echuca over March 3-5,...
Triple tragics return to Evans Head in the Northern Rivers region later this month for the eighth annual Aussie Triples Classic Motorcycle Rally....
Australia’s country music capital, Tamworth, will host the inaugural National Thunder Motorcycle Rally in October 2021 based on the successful 2015 National HOG Rally, but open to all “breeds” of motorcycle. The rally was planned for last year, but was postponed because of the pandemic lockdown. Now, the rally is back on...
One of the oldest four-stroke Hondas in Australia, a 1956 Honda SA250 Dream (like the one pictured above), will be...
Brisbane custom motorcycle shop Ellaspede has announced it will organise another Backroads or Bust and rider tickets for the sixth...
The Harley Owners Group national rally and the national Ulysses rally will be held in more central venues in 2015, rather than the more “remote” venues of Cairns and Alice Springs this year. Despite the remote locations, both groups were happy with attendances, but expect stronger attendances next year when...
More than 9000 riders have ridden a combined total of 8 million kilometres to attend the famous Thunder Rally over the...
The inaugural Iron Run rally in Queenstown next month is expected to be a rocking success. Rally spokesman Chris Elles...
Organisers of the inaugural “Woolshed Classic: a rally for all things motorcycle” hope the motorcycle rally will become a southern hemisphere version of the British Goodwood Revival. Spokesman Mark Morrissey says this weekend’s motorcycle rally (May 1-3) will be “a rally like no other”. “The Woolshed Classic is destined to become...
She dropped her bike before she had even paid for it, then rode it across two continents; now Jessica Zahra...
The announcement this week of an Australia Royal Commission into veteran and serving defence member suicides has prompted organisers of...
The inaugural Lions TT recreational ride on the Lions Rd is being held this weekend and despite some changes to the format, latecomers are welcome, while all riders should be aware of a few warnings. First to the welcomes: Last weekend, the Lions TT organisers notified that the Queensland side...
What’s the best part about a motorcycle rally? It’s the ride to get there! Harley-Davidson Australia and New Zealand is...
Australia’s country music capital, Tamworth, will host a National Thunder Motorcycle Rally in October 2020 based on the successful 2015...
The second annual Harley Days event open to riders of all bikes returns to Wollongong in October and promises to be “bigger, brighter and better” than the inaugural event last year. Registration for the 2017 event from October 27-29 is now open online. Criticism of the first event in Wollongong...
Riders are being asked to help raise $US8000 for Meals on Wheels to service senior citizens who will be advised...
There will be no national Harley Owners Group (HOG) rally this year, but it is believed the event will return...
(Extra reporting and photos by Paul Joshua) The Lions TT will be back again next year, according to the organisers. The organisers are proclaiming the event and the corresponding Kyogle Motorcycle Festival and Casino Sprints a success. Despite three reported crashes on the Lions Rd on the Queensland/NSW border, one...
Registrations have opened for the Australian leg of the Women Riders World Relay 2019 with 150 signing up in the...
There will be no motorcycle club patches in sight and no problems with the police when the third annual Rain...
While a motorcycle festival in France has been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, the world’s biggest motorcycle rally in the USA will go ahead next week despite almost 1000 Americans dying every day. Wheels and Waves Even a week ago, the Wheels & Waves event at the Biarritz Lighthouse...
Victory Motorcycles is holding a rally in Denver, Colorado, and launching a whole new vision for its future. MotorBikeWriter has...
Biker sisters are a competitive lot with Australian, British and now American women vying for world records at all-female motorcycle...
A planned rally in the NSW outback this May hopes to break the world record for the most Indian motorcycle riders at one event, set in the USA with 651 bikes. Organiser Chris Keeble says they already have more than 280 registrations for the rally on Saturday, 9 May 2020,...
The 2016 Far Cairn Rally was washed out and postponed to March so organisers are keen for a good roll-up to...
Harley-Davidson has pulled out of the Walcha Motorcycle Festival due to the current bushfire threat, but the event will still...
The biennial Intermot and annual EICMA motorcycle shows in October and November appear to be in jeopardy with BMW Motorrad, KTM and Husqvarna the first to declare they will not attend. The shows in Cologne and Milan are the biggest in the world and are the showcase for manufacturers around the...
The success of Mad Max motorcycle festivals this year has spurred the South of Heaven Social Motorcycle Club to plan...
Australian and New Zealand riders can join in the celebrations for Harley-Davidson’s 115th birthday celebrations in their hometown of Milwaukee...
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...
Triumph’s annual RAT Rally moves to the great riding roads of the Adelaide Hills in April with skills demonstrations by...
Have bikers gone soft and has the world gone soft on bikers? Rather than the tough image of born-be-wild bikers...
The Australian HOG Rally is set for a new era with an, as yet, unknown future format. The 24th annual National HOG Rally in Tamworth could be the last one of its kind as Harley-Davidson enters a new era. Faced with a changing demographic from the introduction of the new...
The first Harley-Davidson rally open to riders of all bikes will return to Wollongong again this year after organisers considered...
A small group of 20 cruiser riders has raised $1400 for the Royal Flying Doctor Service at their annual rally...
If you want to look on the bright side of the current coronavirus pandemic, some motorcycle events are now being held online including the now-free Black Hills Motorcycle Film Festival. So even though you may not be able to travel to the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota — home...
Hundreds of Wild Hogs will roar into Brisbane for the annual Harley Owners Group Queensland Rally from tomorrow until Sunday...
The third annual Woolshed Classic Motorcycle Rally on the Darling Downs has moved from autumn to the weekend before spring....
I’m feeling pretty tough at the age of 57 riding 3000km to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally with my wife on a Victory Cross Country Tour. But that’s nothing! Grandmother Gloria Struck is 89 and will once again ride almost 3000km from New Jersey to the world’s biggest motorcycle rally. Gloria...
Without CareFlight, Tracy Jackson might not be here, so now she and husband Todd are paying back with the inaugural...
The Australian division of the Women’s International Motorcycle Association (WIMA) has the honour this year of hosting the 2015 International Motorcycle...
The 16th BSA National Rally will be held in the officially declared Motorcycle Friendly Town of Crows Nest in South East Queensland this weekend (15-18 October 2020). Despite the COVID border closures, the BSA Owners Club of Queensland still expects more than 60 members to show off their bikes. There...
Single day passes are still available for the inaugural National Thunder Motorcycle Rally in October 2021 in Australia’s country music...
Indian Riders Motorcycle Group members from around Australia will head to the nostalgic Cooly Rocks On Festival in Coolangatta from...
Blokes will be invited to take part in the Babe Raid rally at Dubbo in November when male and female motorcyclists are set to break up to 16 world records. Organiser Debb Geerts of 2WheelBabes says this is the final chance for Australian riders to set the records as she...
Riders will be spoilt for choice this November as two major motorcycle events compete in NSW. UPDATE: Freak Show and...
Riders will be able to get expert safe-riding tips, legal advice and guidance on safety gear from three of the...
Freedom Riders Australia has raised more than $12,500 for charities and attracted more than 2500 spectators to their Johnny the Boy Lives Tour 2016 to honour the 1979 Mad Max film. Spokesman Dale Maggs says the event last weekend (January 30-31) was a huge success for their chosen charities and...
Sunday’s Freedom Ride to Parliament House in all states to protest against the world’s toughest anti-bikie laws looks like becoming...
The inaugural Iron Run motorcycle rally is being held in Queenstown, New Zealand, in March so we are stayed an...
Harley-Davidson Australia is celebrating their first open event, the Harley Days rally in Wollongong, October 28-30, 2016, by giving away a Low Rider S. The Low Rider S is powered by a 110 Screamin’ Eale engine and is worth $25,995 ride away. Read our road test here. To win, just purchase a...
The unmitigated success of the inaugural Iron Run rally in Queenstown seems to be the clincher for Harley-Davidson to turn...
The Woolshed Classic Motorcycle Rally returns in 2016 after unseasonal floods dampened the inaugural event in 2015. The event at the...
What started as a one-off rally for “triple tragics” has now turned into an annual event with the recent seventh Aussie Triples Rally on the northern NSW coast. Organiser Col McAndrew says he and wife Nancy have had a passion for older Triumphs for a long while. “We regularly attend...
Harley-Davidson Street 500 customers have been assured there will be no problems with supply. New Harley-Davidson Australia and New Zealand...
The Walcha Motorcycle Weekend revs up next weekend (15-17 November 2019) to replace the Freak Show Festival of Motorcycles and national Harley...
As the coronavirus pandemic closes whole countries, it is also wreaking havoc on motorcycle racing, production and events which have been cancelled or postponed. The latest victims include the Ulysses AGM in Lismore, the Dubbo Motor Bike Rally (pictured above) postponed until May 2021, the Festival of Speed at Eastern Creek, the Gloucester Motorcycle Expo, Broadford Bike Bonanza...