Issues with the hydraulic clutch on current Harley-Davidson Touring models continue with a third voluntary recall issued through the Australian...
Victory motorcycles stunt team Tony Carbajal and Joe Vertical put these supercharged Victory Magnum and Cross Country baggers through a closed-course...
Would you buy an electric motorcycle if it could be recharged in seconds, rather than minutes? That’s the major hurdle in the acceptance of electric vehicles: Not range, but recharging time. Many electric car and motorcycle companies, such as Zero and Brammo, now have acceptable range from their batteries and...
The latest safety recalls in Australia are for the new Yamaha R1M and Honda CBR1000RR sportsbikes, both with loose nuts....
An Australian-prepped Harley-Davidson Road Glide nicknamed Pepper has set an Australian land speed record and may also have claimed the...
If you’ve never ridden in a big group of motorcycles, I’d suggest you try a professionally run shop ride like those offered every third Sunday by Heavy Duty Motorcycles of Brisbane. They have a host of marshals to ensure order and most of the patrons seem to be very experienced at...
It’s official; our 1980 Honda CX500 Custom will be customised into a street tracker by Rocker Classic Motorcycles. Our competition...
Hollywood legend Ann-Margaret is now 73, but still loves nothing more than hopping on her lavender-and-daisy Harley-Davidson and “caning it”....
A London company has built what they believe is the safest bicycle in the world with seatbelts and roll cage. The scary prospect is that the road safety super-nannies will think this is a great idea and extend the concept to motorcycles, mandating seatbelts and roll cages. We hope not!...
Remember those cool images of flat track racers throwing heavy and powerful motorcycles sideways at 160km/h on the oval dirt/oil...
Innovative motorcycle maker Erik Buell has ceased operations of his company Erik Buell Racing (EBR), possibly ending an era of radical...
Would coloured lights on motorcycles make riders more visible and therefore safer? That’s the reasoning behind the US state of Wisconsin passing a bill in the state Assembly to allow coloured lights on motorcycles. When we travelled through the US last year, we noticed a lot of riders with auxiliary...
Update: Protecti has been acquired by Freelancer.com (owner of Escrow.com, the world’s largest online escrow service). Contact Escrow.com for further information. Many riders...
VLAD laws and Vlad Putin are making it difficult for riders trying to debunk the penchant among police and legislators...
Rider groups are calling for fewer restrictions and lower fines when lane filtering laws are introduced in Victoria in September 2015. Independent Riders Group spokesman Damien Codognotto says the IRG and the Victorian Scooter Riders Association believe the lane-filtering restrictions and penalties imposed in NSW, Queensland and the ACT (where...
Motorcycles have been making and breaking Guinness World Records for more than a century and the latest is for the...
With the Australian dollar plummeting, will we see motorcycle prices skyrocket? Currently motorcycle prices in Australia are at an all-time low...
UPDATE: Competition is now closed. Click here for the results. How would you like to help us and Rocker Classic Motorcycles customise our 1980 Honda CX500 and win a $100 voucher for your troubles? It’s easy, just fill out the form below and tell us how we should customise the bike. Let your...
Your favourite motorcycle song is Born to be Wild by Steppenwolf and the winners of our competition will now be...
Now that lane filtering (or lane splitting as it’s called in the USA) is becoming legal in more and more...
As motorcycle manufacturers continue to strive for weight savings, could the future generation of bikes be made with plastic engine parts? Europe’s largest application-oriented research organisation, the Fraunhofer project group, believes they can reduce the weight of an engine by 20% using fibre-reinforced plastic parts, such as the cylinder casing...
Learners and cruisers once again are leading the Australian motorcycle market, even though sales have dropped slightly in the first...
While Japanese motorcycles are the most reliable, Victory and Harley owners are the most satisfied and happy with their bikes,...
Riders could soon look like Iron Man with a HUD (heads-up display) helmet that screens vital information such as speed on the visor and negates the need for dangerous “speedo gazing“. The technology was originally developed for fighter aircraft pilot helmets and has become commercially available in recent years in luxury BMW...
A NSW Harley tour operator is challenging his helmet fine and wants the state to follow Queensland’s example by accepting...
Volvo has invented Life Paint to light up cyclists at night and motorcycle riders might also like to swap their...
From sex on a motorcycle to the UK’s fastest motorcycle and a bike with wood, it’s a wacky world of motorcycling out there. https://youtu.be/Uhgs8UHCK-8 UK speed record on highway A rider and pillion on a Kawasaki ZZR 1400 have the dubious distinction of being the fastest couple recorded on a...
The makers of the award-winning feature-length motorcycle documentary Why We Ride are now planning to release a film about the...
Does the Harley-Davidson LiveWire use an Exide battery? The company has never said what sort of battery it has and...
Australians stuck in traffic jams are spending nearly double the time in their commute, giving more reason for all states to introduce lane filtering laws. Lane filtering, which is legal in NSW, Queensland and the ACT (for a two-year trial) and coming to Victoria from September, has been credited by the Belgian...
Riders are being ripped off up to a million dollars in helmet non-compliance offences that may be bogus, yet the...
The popular Black Dog Ride to raise funds and awareness for mental health is heading overseas to the US, UK, New...
What are the best motorcycle songs? Tell us, like our Facebook page and/or share our Facebook post and you could win one of 10 sets of Alpine MotoSafe earplugs. Read to the end of this article and cast your vote for one or more of my suggestions by clicking on them...
You have voted and the declared that Charley Boorman is the best suited to take over from Jeremy Clarkson at Top Gear. And maybe...
KTM has issued a global recall on 2015 models LC4, 690 Enduro R and 690 SMC R and 2014/15 690...
You have to wonder about the validity, danger, expense and ramifications of high-speed police pursuits such as this motorcycle chase in Los Angeles, California. Yes, the guy who is riding is an idiot, especially when he continues to perform stunts right in front of the cops while they are pursuing him. He also...
Now that Jeremy Clarkson has been dumped from Top Gear, maybe it’s time for a similar motorcycle TV show –...
The auction sale of a Captain America chopper from the 1969 cult film Easy Rider has fallen through and the...
The latest motorcycle brand ambassador is Sarah McLeod, front woman of Australian rock band The Superjesus. Most major motorcycle brands have brand ambassadors who are not motorcycle racers and it seems more and more are appointing women as recognition of the growing interest in motorcycles by females. Harley recently appointed...
This 1915 Cyclone board tracker motorcycle once owned by Hollywood legend and motorcycle enthusiast Steve McQueen has sold for a few dollars...