If you are interested in reading a true love story with motorcycles as a central theme, check out Mary Jane...
Long-awaited roadworks to fix the poor state of the famed and much-loved Oxley Highway’s mountain section are about to get...
Technology has outpaced road rules on driver distraction, leaving the current rules inadequate, difficult to police and confusing as they vary between state boundaries. So, in the wake of a recent national summit on driver distraction, the National Transport Commission is calling for public input to tighten the rules. Rather...
A 22-year-old male rider has died after a collision with a truck on an M4 highway off-ramp in Sydney’s west...
It’s time the motorcycle industry advertised the benefits of riding to work by motorcycle as commuting times have increased about...
Future motorcycles might be able to issue warnings to tell you if you have chosen the right apex and speed for a corner, regardless of the posted advisory speed. Working on the fact that turns taken too quickly or sharply are responsible for nearly a fifth of all motorcycle accidents...
A motorcyclist out for a Sunday ride on his favourite local mountain road has died in a crash. The 34-year-old...
Australian motorcycle journalist Rennie Scaysbrook may forever hold the record for the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb in Colorado after the committee decided...
The organiser of the annual Blessing of the Bikes (pictured) before the annual Phillip Island MotoGP plans a campaign he hopes will increase public respect for riders. Marcel Widmer, who runs the Inline 4 Cafe with wife Sabine says he wants those who attend the blessing at San Remo on Saturday 19...
How would you like to wheelie a Ducati Panigale V4 S at the touch of a button? Well, now you...
The fallout continues in the wake of last month’s tragic accident in the USA where a driver ploughed his pick-up...
While riders have been safely using bus lanes in NSW, the ACT and several major cities around the world for several years, Victoria is still in a protracted trial phase and other states lag even further behind. In February, the Victorian Government announced that riders could use more bus lanes...
An appeal could be launched against a Canberra motorist who received a “light penalty” for twice swerving dangerously at legally lane-filtering...
This BMW G 310 GS knockoff is the latest in a long line of Chinese products that rip off the...
President Donald Trump’s trade wars are hitting Harley-Davidson hard with a 22% bite in profits to $US426m after a 8.4% drop in international sales in the last quarter. The Milwaukee company now expects to ship about 212,000 to 217,000 bikes in 2019, compared with their original estimate of 217,000 to...
A Canberra motorist facing possible jail time for swerving his car at two lane-filtering motorcyclists has got off with a relative...
If you are heading down to do a lap of Tasmania before or after your annual MotoGP pilgrimage, watch out...
Saturday was deadly for motorcycle riders with three killed and several injured as nine motorcycles were involved in four crashes in Queensland, Victoria and NSW on Saturday (20 July 2019). Victorian crash In the latest incident, Victorian Police say two motorcycles collided with ute towing a trailer at the intersection...
A 50-year-old male rider has died in a head-on collision with a ute on the Rosewood-Marburg Rd at Tallegalla, west...
Yamaha Motor Australia has recalled 1193 MT-07 and XSR700 models for a missing exhaust noise compliance sticker. The official notice...
Ducati has now recalled a variant of the Panigale V4 for the fifth time with four recalls in its first year of production. On this occasion, it’s for a fuel leak in the 2018-19 Panigale V4 range and the 2019 Panigale V4 R, totalling 445 motorcycles in Australia. Australian owners...
Piaggio Australia has recalled 54 2018 ZIP 50 4T scooters over a throttle fault that could cause the scooter to...
Today is the 50th anniversary of the first public screening of the cult 1969 movie Easy Rider. In the USA, many...
Australian motorcycle journalist Rennie Scaysbrook has posted a video of his record run at the recent Pikes Peak International Hillclimb in Colorado. The event was marred by the death of four-time winner Carlin Dunne on the last turn while riding the Ducati Streetfighter V4 prototype. He was on his way...
A 33-year-old Gatton male rider has died in a collision with a ute at a Gatton intersection last night (12...
Retired and honoured motorcycle industry veteran Stuart Strickland has delivered blunt criticism of the industry and the dictators who make...
Cap motorcycle speeds at 50km/h is one of the more ludicrous suggestions put forward at the first of a series of community road safety forums in regional Victoria this week. The suggestion from an unknown attendee was actually written up on a blackboard among other strategies, such as more driver/rider...
A male rider has died after hitting a guard rail and another rider has been injured after being hit by...
Police in every state plan to immediately increase police presence on regional roads leading up to a “National Day of...
A bizarre court battle is looming between a Taiwan company that owns Italian motorcycle brand FB Mondial and a Brit who changed his name to his Italian roots and is developing a V5 MondialMoto (pictured). The bizarre legal battle is titled “MondialMoto 2007 SRL v. FB Mondial”. Mondial history Italian...
“Life without danger is just no life at all” says a new motorcycle documentary featuring racers Freddie Spencer, Colin Edwards,...
As if there already isn’t enough Harley-Davidson merchandise, now Danish toy company Lego has produced a scale-model Fat Boy model....
Yamaha Motor Australia has recalled 124 R3 and MT-03 (pictured above) learner motorcycles over possible breaking front brakes. The official recall notice, issued through the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says that when “strong gripping force is applied to the front brake lever, it may break”. “If the front brake...
The Victorian Motorcycle Council has called to remove mandatory hi-vis vests for learner riders in its 10-page submission to the...
Italian rider Luca Colombo has beaten Aussie stunt rider Robbie Maddison’s world record on water by riding a motorcycle 1.9km across Lake...
Over the years I have ridden a huge variety of motorbikes and have noticed that when I’m riding some models I get a lot of appreciative waves while others attract none. So which bikes attract the most appreciation form the public and other riders and motorcycle camaraderie and which ones...
A continuing downturn in motorcycle sales, as well as car sales, in the first half of the year has been...
Germany has knocked back a plea by a Sikh rider to wear a turban instead of a helmet on religious...
Honda Motorcycles Australia has recalled 183 of their learner motorcycles over an issue which could cause locking of the rear wheel. The recall notice, issued through the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) affects the 2019 CBF300N, 2018 CBR300R (pictured above) and 2017 CRF250L. Vehicle identification numbers of affected bikes are listed...
Famous charity rider Tex O’Grady is set to retire his second dog pillion, Bundy, and is currently training her replacement,...