The Australian distributor for Ventz, the ingenious device that sends cooling air up your motorcycle jacket sleeves, is seeking a...
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One of the problems with electric motorcycles is finding somewhere to charge the battery, but a Chinese company believes the...
After the problems Honda had with the massive global recall of dangerous Takata airbags in their Goldwing, the company is now filing for a patent on a smaller airbag suitable for smaller bikes. Instead of deploying in front of the rider like a big bean bag, it goes straight up...
Aussie Toby Price and two other riders stopped to help fallen rider Paulo Goncalves (pictured above) yesterday (12 January 2020) in the Dakar...
Like many Aussie sports stars and celebrities, Aussie MotoGP racer Jack Miller and our two-time Dakar rally winner Toby Price are raising...
A 35-year-old British rider who survived a horrifying head-on collision has credited his airbag-equipped full leather suit as a lifesaver. This confronting video showing in-car footage, a rear angle and a following car’s video has been released overnight by Yorkshire Police to highlight the value of riders wearing the full...
Ducati Diavel 1260 power cruiser has won another design award. Last year, the Diavel won a Best of the Best award...
Indian Motorcycle Australia will close its company-owned stores in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth and move to a system of...
Aussie Toby Price lost 16 valuable minutes when his rear tyre came off in the sand dunes on stage six of the first Dakar Rally to be held in Saudi Arabia. The stage was won by American and Honda factory team rider Ricky Brabec who moves further ahead in outright first as the competitors reach a...
Smart helmets are coming and they are getting smarter by the day with the latest calling emergency if you crash...
A rider, aged 35, spent a harrowing few seconds stuck to the tray of a hit-run ute driver this morning...
Norton Motorcycles was fighting in the Insolvency and Companies Court in London this week (8 January 2020) to avoid a winding-up petition over £300,000 (about $A570k) in taxes owed to HM Revenue & Customs. Owner Stuart Garner says some of the money is covered by outstanding research and development tax relief owed to the...
After leading on the first day and dropping back to ninth, Aussie Toby Price has scored his second stage win in the Dakar Rally and...
NSW and Western Australia remain the only two states to not yet implement new Australian Road Rules that would provide harmony across...
Critics have been lining up to foretell doom for Harley-Davidson for both being out of date with their pushrod ploughs yet too advanced with their expensive new electric bike. But long-time Harley-Davidson expert Phil Heath (career bio at the end of the article) reckons the doom sayers have got it wrong...
Ok, so electric motorcycles are not as constrained on design as traditional bikes, but are some of the latest models...
Former volunteer firefighter John England is selling his collection of Aussie motorcycle racing memorabilia and donating a portion to aid...
The Honda factory team is shaping to be the biggest threat to Aussie Toby Price scoring his third Dakar Rally win and the 19th consecutive victory for KTM. Honda has the top three outright positions after yesterday’s 453km stage four of the rally in Saudi Arabia with Toby biding his time in fourth place...
Damon Hypersport electric motorcycle has launched with some impressive 200 figures: 200Nm of torque, 200mph top speed and 200 miles...
A male rider has died in a crash with a pole after NSW police abandoned a pursuit in Newcastle overnight...
KTM and, to a lesser extent Husqvarna, have defied the Australian road bike sales slump of -11.9% last year, according to official statistics from the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries released today. Whatever KTM is doing, it seems to be working because the company, together with its acquisition Husqvarna, is also defying...
Apart from riders being aware of rapidly changing bushfire conditions, we have also been warned about slippery fire retardant on...
An error in the roadbook has forced officials in the 2020 Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia to amend the finishing results after a...
From 1963 to 1982, Harley-Davidson also made golf carts and the most famous, belonging to Elvis Presley, is now up for grabs. Harley did some strange things during the AMF years and this is one of the strangest! Golf cart The Elvis Harley golf cart is powered by a single-cylinder two-stroke...
American fun bike manufacturer Cleveland CycleWerks is the latest to join in the electric motorcycle trend that will define Whirring Twenties decade. For...
Do you wear your motorcycle gloves under or over your jacket cuff? Yes, we cover the BIG issues here at...
Dutch company Icon Motorcycles plans to hand-make new-age Triton motorcycles with Norton featherbed frames and modern Triumph 900cc engines. Original Triton The original 1960-70s Tritons were not factory models but private builds where enthusiasts mated the lithe-handling Norton featherbed frame with Triumph Bonneville engines. Now Dutch company Icon Motorcycles plans...
Tough navigation, rocky terrain and a super marathon second stage of the Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia dropped two-time winner and current...
Last year we lamented the sad loss of Easy Rider star Peter Fonda who died at the age of 79,...
A 22-year-old man wanted for 55 traffic offences including several for speeds of more than 150km/h in Brisbane’s northern suburbs has finally been nabbed. Watch the Queensland Police video below of several occasions where the rider is spotted by police who give up the chase for public safety reasons when...
Bell is introducing a new convertible helmet, called the Broozer, where the chin piece clicks out to convert from full-face...
Aussie two-time Dakar Rally winner and current title holder Toby Price has come out fighting from day one with a...
A motorbike theft has resulted in a police chase which ended overnight with a 31-year-old Morayfield man being charged with several offences. Police say that about 7pm (4 January 2020) officer patrolling a Chermside shopping centre on Gympie Road spotted a silver utility driven by a man wanted for questioning in relation...
The Dakar Rally has controversially shifted to Saudi Arabia this year where Aussie Toby Price will defend his title in...
A 27-year-old Crestmead man has died after a head-on collision between his motorcycle and a car on Springfield Greenbank Arterial...
Rather than a return to the Roaring Twenties, this decade could see an abundance of electric vehicles creating a Whirring Twenties. Let’s do the disadvantages first: Expensive; Limited range; Dubious whole-of-life environmental impact (mining, production, energy source and recycling); Slow charging; Scant charging infrastructure; No common batteries across the industry; and...
Posting photos about your motorcycle could be inviting professional theft gangs to target you, warns RACQ safety technical officer and...
The expected revival of the traditional British motorcycle brand, BSA, seems to have stalled more than three years after the...
Leaked documents show KTM plans to introduce 10 new models with engines ranging from 125cc to 890cc and an extra electric, according to VisorDown. The image from KTM’s 2020 model plans shows upcoming models as blurred bikes, including the new electric Freeride E AM trials bike. In the 125, 250...
Just weeks after completing the two jumps from The Great Escape, former Isle of Man TT racer turned TV daredevil Guy...