A campaign to highlight road rules to motorists ignores motorcycles at a time when the fatality rate is high and...
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NSW Police look set for a major crackdown on riders in the wake of five tragic motorcyclist deaths in the past week and a rider clocked at 193km/h in an 80 zone in north-western Sydney. Assistant Commissioner Michael Corboy of the state’s Traffic & Highway Patrol Command issued a statement saying...
The three-wheeled Yamaha Niken and the Ducati Diavel 1260 power cruiser have won Best of the Best awards at the...
Thailand has become one of the powerhouses in the automotive world, manufacturing motorcycle brands as diverse as BMW, Ducati, Harley-Davidson,...
Police in NSW and Victoria have launched special operations in response to a rapid escalation in rider deaths so far this year. The NSW action comes after the deaths of three riders in as many days. Meanwhile, Victorian Police Operation Kinetic will add 300 shifts over the next 10 weeks...
Female riders have created a “safe space for women riders” with the East Coast Female Riders (ECFR) Facebook group. Founders...
A home movie showing an Aussie rider’s involvement in the making of 1963 film The Great Escape has surfaced after...
Victorian Police will work an extra 300 shifts over the next 10 weeks to increase patrols of the state’s roads after a tragic start to the year. So far this year there have been 76 lives lost on Victorian roads compared with 51 at the same time last year. That...
Iconic American motorcycle customiser Arlen Ness has died, aged 79, surrounded by his family in California. Arlen was known for...
A driver who crossed double white lines and killed a teenage motorcyclist was charged with a traffic offence rather than...
Triumph Australia has joined a global recall on a range of its 900cc and 1200cc Bonneville models over faulty electrics. Canada was the first to recall the faulty bikes and some three weeks later the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has published the official recall notice. “The clutch cable may...
A politician contesting the NSW state elections tomorrow (23 March 2019) says motorcycle riders are often the forgotten commuters. The...
PS Importers Australia have issued a called for the Aprilia SR 50 (above) and Piaggio Typhoon 50 scooters over fuel starvation....
The world’s fastest blind rider, Ben Felten, plans to return to Lake Gairdner in 2020 to raise the bar over 300km/h. Team Blind Speed Kawasaki took their 2018 Kawasaki ZX-10R to the South Australian salt flats recently to beat his own world record of 272.596km/h set in 2018. While he...
Queensland Police are seeking witnesses after a motorcycle rider received serious injuries from a collision with a car yesterday evening...
A disabled Canberra rider could face a $228 fine for copying his disabled parking permit and making his own holder...
A spate of hit-run crashes involving drivers speeding off after crashing into motorcycles seems to have hit Victoria. The latest two hit-run crashes were in Brunswick yesterday (19 March 2019) and St Kilda West on Monday. A rider was also injured in a hit-run on Footscray Rd on February 28 and another...
Suzuki Motorcycles have developed a radar reflector, not to detect or jam a police speed radar, but to make motorcycles...
By Jeff Blaylock for our North American readers Buying your first motorcycle is an exciting experience. It is more fulfilling...
A 70-year-old female driver has been charged over hitting a NSW police motorcyclist who had stopped to pull over another car. The crash occurred despite a new rule requiring motorists to slow to 40km/h when passing stationary or slow-moving emergency vehicles. However, instead of charging the woman under the new rule,...
A four-wheeled leaning electric motorcycle has finally shown it can get off the ground with a video showing it at...
Hopes of a trial of forward stop lines or motorcycle boxes for the safety of filtering riders have been set...
A fire that destroyed 18 Energica electric motorcycles for the upcoming MotoE series at five MotoGP events this year has inflamed concerns about electric vehicle fires. The cause of the Energica blaze seems to be a short circuit in one of their charging units. However, there are other causes for...
Motorcycles thefts are up 7.3% across Australia in 2018 with many older bikes heading straight to the junk yard for...
A Tasmanian Motorcycle Council proposal for free identification numbers for cyclists over 18 has been rejected. Council president Paul Bullock confirms...
(By “Boris”, a passionate blogger and founder of WhatisSUV.com) So you’ve finally decided to take the plunge, live out your dreams exploring the open roads and touring about town by purchasing your own motorcycle. Even if it doesn’t happen to be your first motorcycle, rather you are just looking to...
Motorcycle racing has received a major boost at two Aussie tracks with a big cash injection into a second circuit...
Riders are urged to take part in a major survey on attitudes to road safety strategies which has so far...
Camo motorcycle riding pants were once a big thing and now it looks like urban camouflage paint is coming to motorcycles. Royal Enfield recently launched the Himalayan Street in grey camo and Californian electric motorcycle company Fly Free has a model in grey camo. Now, famous Swiss custom motorcycle company Gannet...
New roads and roadworks in Australia are falling into disrepair too soon while short warranty periods are allowing contractors to...
If you think talking or texting on a mobile phone while driving is dangerous, a new trend of taking selfies...
Riders should be able to choose to pay a 5c-per-kilometre congestion tax in return for lower rego under a proposal by a leading transport economist. Sydney University transport economist Professor David Hensher says the congestion tax could cut peak hour traffic up to 10% or to “school holiday” levels. His...
German tech company Continental is working on a system to make thick A pillars in cars invisible so drivers can...
Your motorcycle data could soon be monitored by insurance companies to adjust your premiums or payouts based on your riding...
Three motorcyclists are critically injured following a horror night on the roads in NSW and Victoria with police appealing for witnesses to the crashes, including one hit and run. On initial police reports, it appears that two of the incidents were the fault of drivers. Our best wishes to the...
Jetpack Aviation is the latest company to announce plans for flying motorcycles, although so far they have only provided artwork and...
Melbourne’s much-lauded motorcycle footpath parking is under siege by Lord Mayor Sally Capp who says a survey shows that motorcycles...
Victorian Police will target both road and off-road motorcyclists this Labour Day long weekend in the annual Operation Arid. Extra police resources, including 10 more “booze and drug buses”, will be deployed in priority areas, including Wangaratta/Benalla, Yarra Ranges, Geelong/ Moorabool, Glen Eira and Greater Dandenong. The operation runs from...
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