BMW is going electric with the unveiling of their first all-electric car, the i3, and plans to launch their first...
Harley-Davidson sales are up 4.3% globally, but down 5.2% in the US in the past quarter because of uncertainty over,...
The hysteria over the anti-bikie laws will “blow over fairly quickly”, says Harley-Davidson Australia director of marketing Adam Wright. While he admits that Vicious Lawless Associations Disestablishment (VLAD) Act and the proposed hotline to register rides with the police are “a bit scary”, he says we should learn from a...
Harley-Davidson may be on a crash course with President Donald Trump over its announcement of a plan to make motorcycles...
Harley-Davidson has axed the Road Glide for 2014. But I doubt it will be the last we see of the...
Victorian police and health officials have left motorcycle riders in the dark over whether helmets are suitable and legal substitutes for face masks. The move to mandatory face masks in Melbourne City and Mitchell Shire from 23 July 2020 comes as coronavirus infection rates spiral out of control. The measures...
A flood of cheap, low-quality Chinese scooters into the market a few years ago has “burned” riders and caused today’s...
Currently Exploring Legal Options Harley-Davidson announced it would pull out of India not that long ago as part of its...
UPDATED NOVEMBER 2014: There may be a host of rock songs about riding motorcycles, but not a lot from the point of view of a pillion since the Shangri-Las sang Leader of the Pack. However, I received an email from Russian pop/rock songstress Mashany about her song Like Your Bike....
Contributed post for our North American readers There are few things quite as liberating as cruising down the road on...
Electric bicycles in the snow, bikes made in Thailand and Europe, lower prices, higher costs, tariff wars and removable batteries...
Yamaha has scored its second prestigious Red Dot Design Best of the Best Award, this time for its XSR900. It was the only motorcycle company to score an award this year. The annual Red Dot Award, considered the supreme design honour, is held in Essen, Germany where products from 54 countries...
Noosa in Queensland is leading the way for two-wheeled transport with an equal number of motorbike parking spaces as car...
This video of a 2m snake attacking a motorcycle rider in Lampang, Thailand, will send shivers down your spine! Many...
Two Miles, 18 Years of Age Finding a ~20-year-old motorcycle with zero (or two) miles on the clock should be near impossible for many. Especially if you want a special edition Ducati with as few miles as possible. With two miles I can almost guarantee this motorcycle has never hit a...
Kawasaki Australia has recalled its new models of Ninja 400 (pictured) and Z400 learner-approved motorcycles over an issue that could...
An app that helps you find motorcycle parking has now been extended to Android phones. The MCNetwork directory of parking...
If you’ve ever wondered who would win a race between a robot and MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi, well wonder no longer as this video shows. After three years of development, the Yamaha Motobot is now in its second generation of development. Valentino wins … for now Yet Motobot Ver.2 still...
Queensland riders now have no official representation to government after the Motorcycle Riders Association of Queensland has officially closed. The...
According to a report from BikeWhale, KTM has just launched their World Adventure Week – and thanks to KTM’s generosity,...
Video from helmet cameras will not only provide evidence of an incident but should make roads safer by encouraging compliance with the road rules by both riders and drivers. The comments were made in South Australian Parliament by Peter Treloar Member for Flinders (LNP) who was speaking to the Road...
What Goes Hand-in-Hand With Open-Face Helmets and Classic Cafe-Racer Bikes? Moustaches of Course. Movember has been a huge success since...
Is it any wonder motorcycles are experiencing the biggest growth of any automotive sector when four-wheelers are becoming such a...
World Wheelie King Gary Rothwell is set to again defend his world speed wheelie record at the 11th annual World Wheelie Championship set to take place in England in mid-August, 2016. The Liverpudlian set a record of 197mph (317km/h) in 2014 and topped that last year with a run of 209mph (336km/h) for a motorcycle...
Aprilia Australia has issued a safety recall notice for a brake issue on 2017-2020 RSV4 and Tuono 1100 motorcycles. The...
Retired and honoured motorcycle industry veteran Stuart Strickland has delivered blunt criticism of the industry and the dictators who make...
The only good news from the “Great Fall of China” in Monday’s stock markets is that petrol prices should start to drop, which is even more reason to go riding! China is the second-largest consumer of oil after America, so the 9% market crash has also sent oil prices plummeting up...
A British engineer hopes to break the 400mph barrier, set a new world record and possibly go as high as...
Carl Zipfel Talks About the GMC CarbonPro Bed I’m not going to tell you what truck to buy and this...
Honda has recalled the GL 1800 Goldwing for the second time in a year over faults in its revolutionary airbags. The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission voluntary recall notice says the airbag inflator may degrade over time. “If the airbag is deployed, this degradation may cause the inflator body to...
BMW Motorrad has been inspecting the forks of all water-cooled R 1200 GS and GS Adventure models when bikes came...
As experts have predicted, traffic congestion is increasing in many cities around the world post-lockdown as commuters steer away from...
Riders are being urged to make submissions about the perceived dangers of wire rope barriers to a Victorian inquiry into the road toll. Submissions to the Legislative Council’s Economy and Infrastructure Committee will be accepted online until 30 June 2020. Committee member and Liberal MP for Western Victoria, Beverley McArthur,...
A 29-year-old woman has been charged with negligent driving after a collision with a motorcycle in Sydney on Sunday (1 September...
Today we celebrate the belated birthday of seven-time 350cc and 500cc world title champion Giacomo Agostini, or “Ago” – an...
There could be nothing more heartbreaking than to have your motorcycle stolen, but what can be done to reduce the alarming rate of theft? In Australia, 23 motorcycles and scooters are stolen every day. But that’s nothing, really. France tops the list for stolen motorcycles with 151 a day, while...
Now is a good time to grab a few Aprilia and Moto Guzzi bargains from Australian importer John Sample Group...
Marijuana is widely used and is being legalised and decriminalised around the world, but riders are warned that it is...
Chinese-made motorcycles tend to catch a lot of flak for being sub-par, but over the last few years, a brand from the Zhejiang Province in China has been growing out of the norm. CFMoto has grown substantially as a brand by spending the recent past expanding to new markets and...
One of the dangers of lane filtering is that if you use the highway verge or breakdown lane – as...