Since the very first 1885 Daimler Reitwagen motorcycle, the passion for two-wheeled goodness has covered the globe. Motorcycles fill all...
If you’re a child of the ’70s and ’80s like me, your first experience of motorcycle ice racing will probably...
The 1970s and 1980s were a golden age for forced induction engines. Like shoulder pads in suits and mascara on men, turbos were the flavor of the decade. And for a while there, it seemed that if there was any way that manufacturers could bolt on a go-faster snail to...
All brands have certain challenges to overcome, especially the historical ones. Be it a poor marketing decision, failed product launches,...
You can’t go far these days without hearing about electric motorcycles. It seems like every week there is a new...
Tell us honestly, what’s the first thing that pops into your mind when you think of Finland? For hockey fans, it’s the home nation of some of their favorite hockey players and goaltenders. For music fans, especially metalheads, it is one of “The Big Three” of metal, alongside Germany and...
What is the pursuit of speed but the unparalleled thrust of girth into the void where noise is last and...
We take it for granted that 99% of our motorcycles’ headlights are always on, but how did we get here...
When someone mentions Italian motorcycles, the first image that goes through pretty much everyone’s head is that of a sleek, powerful supersport carving corners like a scalpel. If you ask the scooter crowd about Italian bikes, you’ll get your ear gnawed off about Piaggio and Vespa. These are two extreme...
As we reported earlier this month, Road Guardians is auctioning off the Harley-Davidson New Glory Flag Bike, with the entries...
For the longest time, if you mentioned the name Royal Enfield, the first thing most people thought of was a...
Talk to any biker over a few beers at the end of the day, the same old question comes up. ‘When did you first start riding?’ For myself and many, many other Aussies, the answer is quite different to those that you’d get in Europe, the USA or Asia. For...
Forgive me if I sound about 10 years old, but as a grown-ass man I still have my childhood obsession...
Good ol’ Eddie ‘Dave’ Davenport from the Tulare Raiders on the borrowed Harley with all those smashed beer bottles. It’s...
It’s fairly hard these days to find a movie playing in theaters that doesn’t have some kind of motorcycle involved. It could be background action, it could be a character’s bike, and in some movies, it could even be the entire star of the show. No matter what, however, there...
The world is full of amazing motorcycle brands, but I cannot think of a single other manufacturer that can claim...
The 1950s was an interesting decade for the motorcycle industry. As countries began to show signs of economic improvement after...
The 1960s was a transformative time for the motorcycle industry. As the mobility culture shifted from affordable motorcycles to affordable four-wheelers, the industry found itself at something of crossroads and on the cusp of an identity crisis. The 60s would bring about the beginning of the end for the British...
While every decade has its icons, the 1970s have so many good models to choose from. It was a time...
As we continue our journey through the decades, it’s time to take a look at the best motorcycles of the...
Next up on our voyage through the decades, we arrive at the 1990s. While the 80s was a decade of innovation and excitement, the party really got started in the 90s. If you were a young and impressionable youth with a taste for high-speed thrills, jaw-dropping lean angles, and a...
It’s something that we take for granted these days: that 99.9% of the jackets, gloves, pants, and boots we buy...
Next time you see some dinky little beginner’s bike, pit bike, pocket bike or el-cheapo Chinese knock-off that makes you...
There is a wise saying about inventions that says that “the invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not the world it started.” That quote comes from the founder of O’Reilly Books, Tim O’Reilly, and while it is ostensibly about the rise of the digital age,...
The noise. The speed. The danger. The rebellion. It seems motorcycles were made to cause trouble. From scaring old ladies...
The global success of George Miller’s Mad Max first installment in 1979 meant a lot for Aussies, young and old....
Like many teenagers in 1980s Australia, I was a willing participant in the Japanese rotary-engined street racer phase that swept the country at the time. Hell, there was even a magazine called Fast Fours & Rotaries that sold here like hotcakes. But for me, the whole thing crystallized when my...
So, just how much do you know about T.E. Lawrence? Who, you ask? And as you do, the long dead...