A lone resident of sleepy Beechmont on the Gold Coast hinterland has warned riders that residents are “forming protest groups”...
Germany is replacing dangerous steel road signs and posts with plastic versions to improve safety for motorcyclists who hit them....
Hanoi plans to ban motorcycles and scooters by 2030 in a move that is disturbingly growing across the world and reflects an upcoming movie about a future where motorcycles are banned. Vietnam’s capital is the second-most polluted in the world, prompting the city council to announce their intended ban on...
Two European motorcyclist associations have lent their support to an Australian family’s campaign to halt the rollout of wire rope...
Harley-Davidson has reportedly applied for a patent for sensors that detect road hazards such as wildlife and then apply auto...
Italian brake manufacturer Brembo has been stopped in its tracks with a second major product safety recall on its products this year. In January, Brembo issued a global safety recall on radial master cylinder pistons in 15mm and 16mm diameters produced between 2015 and 2017. The recall affected thousands of...
A worldwide program to find, encourage, test and develop innovative technology that will improve motorcycle road safety is being launched....
Burt Munro’s great nephew, Lee Munro, is returning to Bonneville Speed Week on a modified Indian Scout in an attempt to...
A disturbingly realistic film project about motorcycles being banned in a future world of autonomous vehicles will go ahead despite failing to raise funds from an Indiegogo campaign. Director of The Last Motorcycle on Earth, Eric Ristau, has confirmed they are going ahead with production and says he appreciates the supportive...
BMW Motorrad has released this video in which Tom Cruise says he does his own stunts in the sixth Mission...
President Donald Trump says his is “getting very close” to approving a waiver to allow 15% ethanol fuel blends (E15)...
This YouTube video of an artist making a full-size Kawasaki ZX-10R out of cardboard has gone viral with almost two million views. Motorcycles have long been an important part of our culture and our art. They have been the inspiration for many artists and sculptors, their parts have been included...
If more was done to encourage motorcycles and scooters, cities across the world would save billions of dollars on providing...
Indian Motorcycle has announced plans to increase production in their Polaris plant in Poland to avoid 31% European tariffs on...
Melbourne hopes to join several other cities by introducing a congestion tax for its CBD to solve traffic problems, but it has made no mention of exempting motorcycles and scooters. The city’s Reducing Traffic for Better Streets paper suggests a road-user charge per kilometre to replace vehicle registration fees and/or fuel excise. As...
Harley-Davidson will soon start building bikes in Thailand with lower prices “largely in our Asian market”, says company CFO John...
Centre-of-the-road parking should be turned over to motorcycles as it is less dangerous than for cars and would increase the...
Several weeks after the rest of the world recalled the BMW G 310 models over faulty side stands, BMW Motorrad Australia has recalled more than 780 bikes. The official Australian Competition and Consumer Commission notice says the side stand connection might bend or break. “The motorcycle side stand connection might bend...
The widow of a rider killed in a crash involving a dead kangaroo and wire rope barriers (WRB) has called...
Motorcycle racing at Mt Panorama has moved a step closer with Bathurst Regional Council awarding a $3.7 million tender to...
Seventeen Australian and New Zealand Harley-Davidson dealers will take on the world in the Battle of the Kings custom motorcycle build-off for the first time since its launch in 2015. MotorbikeWriter.com has been invited to be one of the judges in the Australian leg of the competition to find a...
Why is a self-described chubby white-haired little granny still riding at 62 and intending to ride for as long as...
We don’t expect hubless wheeled motorcycles to become a thing, but this one certainly has turned some heads. The TMC...
The 1970 Husky 400 Cross ridden by Steve McQueen on the beach in the 1971 cult motorcycle documentary On Any Sunday is going up for auction in October at the Barber Motorsports Museum in Birmingham, Alabama. The bike is expected to fetch a significant amount of interest if previous McQueen...
(Sponsored post) The biggest challenge when buying motorcycle spare parts is to determine whether the part is genuine or fake. There...
Congratulations to France for winning the World Cup, but we would be a whole lot more excited if soccer were...
A Berlin economic development agency has sent a letter to Harley-Davidson suggesting they open a factory there to build motorcycles for the European market. The iconic American manufacturer has not yet responded to the offer, but has expressed its intention to move some manufacturing to Europe to avoid 31% tariffs....
Ducati will add front and rear radar and cornering ABS to its entire range in 2020 as part of its...
Kawasaki Australia has recalled the learner-approved 2018 Z300 over an issue with the clutch cable that could spark a fire....
Blue Mountains rider Chris Keeble, 59, sent us her story about riding her bike, Calamity Jane, in the hope of not only inspiring more women to ride, but also empowering them to ride big bikes like her Indian Chief Vintage. Calamity Jane rides again I started riding way back in my...
Ducati Australia has joined the worldwide recall of the 2017-2018 Supersport S over melting fuel tank overfill hoses which may be...
A recent incident in which melting bitumen caused traffic chaos on a North Queensland road is not the same as...
Stunt maestro Travis Pastrana has successfully recreated three of Evel Knievel’s most famous jumps in one night in Las Vegas on an Indian FTR750 Scout. In the first 143’ jump over 52 cars and the third 149’ jump over the Caesars Palace fountain, Travis even completes the stunts with endos...
Big Brother could be watching where you ride and how you ride with new technology being offered free in the...
Motorcycle sales continued to tumble in the first half of this year, down 5.9% on the first half of 2017...
Witnesses to a hit-and-run involving a truck and a motorcyclist aged 22 in Logan Village, Queensland, at 8pm on 15 June 2018 are being urged to come forward to police or provide dashcam or helmet-cam evidence. Truck driver T. McLeod, 24, of Greenbank appeared in Beenleigh Magistrates Court on Friday...
How do you encourage women to go from a reluctant pillion to a solo rider? Women riders should be as...
July is typically a great time for motorcycle discounts after the half-year sales reports, with Suzuki Australia leading the price...
Imagine how fast acceleration would be and how much lighter a motorcycle would be without a heavy flywheel. That’s the idea of American inventor Randy Moore of RK Transportation who has developed a lightweight electric flywheel for four-stroke motorcycles. Instead of a normal heavy metal flywheel, the engine would have...
Some riders have a partner who chides them for their passion, while others (like me) are more fortunate to have a...