Motorcycle manufacturers are starting to offer warranty extensions because of the down time during the pandemic lockdown. It began in...
A Triumph Bonneville Challenger Enters the Arena If you don’t know about Brixton Motorcycles, then let me introduce the company....
A Feat in Today’s World Yesterday I reported that Harley-Davidson is struggling pretty hard to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the economy. It seems Indian Motorcycle is much better suited to weather the storm. Indian’s sales were actually up seven percent when compared with Q1 of...
All the Protection You Could Need The motorcycle rental company Twisted Road announced two significant changes recently to its insurance...
Honda has filed a patent in Japan for a new 850cc parallel-twin engine to replace the current NC750 range and possibly...
COIVD-19 Takes Its Toll The COVID-19 pandemic has been hard on every industry. The market has dipped considerably, and Harley-Davidson wasn’t able to escape it. Like other motorcycle company’s Harley is struggling to cope. The company saw sales drop by 18 percent in Q1 of 2020 when compared with 2019’s...
Electric Scootin’ I’ve written about NIU before. The company has a lot of electric scooters around the world in various...
It’s Coming May 1 On May 1, Indian will reveal the FTR Carbon. The upcoming new version of the motorcycle...
Getting Back In the Swing of Things I reported that Italy’s motorcycle manufacturers are starting production again since the COVID-19 outbreak. One of them kicking things back in gear, so to speak, is Energica. The company resumed production yesterday and will continue to ramp up production from there. Soon the...
Queensland riders have been urged not to congregate around cafes when they stop for a takeaway coffee while out on...
What Is the Best New Bike? Looking over the long list of new or updated motorcycles for 2020, I have...
Adding a Fireball? The rumor is that Royal Enfield has a Meteor 350 in the works, but new information suggests the company will add the suffix Fireball to the bike’s name. GaadiWaadi recently posted an article with some leaked images that showed the suffix added to the bike. It’s unclear...
The New Norton Begins to Emerge Stuart Garner ran Norton Motorcycles into the ground, opening the door for TVS Motors...
Another Brand Offering This With few people coming out to dealerships right now due to the Coronavirus, it makes sense...
(This pandemic article was last updated on April 28. For May 11 details, click here.) Around the world, riders are biding their time in lockdown. But Australia is performing well with a flattened curve on new infections, so there is scope to get out of the house and go for...
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has today admitted on Sydney radio riding a motorcycle is exercise and therefore legal. Latest travel restriction...
Traffic offences are understandably down as there are fewer vehicles on the road, but the lockdown is also creating lonely...
Ducati and MV Agusta will ease back into production again from today in “phase 2” restrictions after an almost six-week lockdown due to the coronavirus. While supply of some models will take some time to meet orders, the good news is that R&D on new models has continued largely unabated...
Trying to Stop the Coronavirus With some companies beginning to return to work after the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Say Goodbye to Suzuki Large Displacement Bikes The upcoming emissions standards for the Indian market have killed off more bikes...
A Cool Electric Bike Most electric bikes fit into a few different categories it’s they’re either small commuter machines or they offer something on the complete another end of the spectrum and usually a sportbike. The Trevor FTR Stella is a little different. This bike is an electric flat track...
Getting Back on Track COVID-19 threw a giant wrench in the inner workings of the motorcycle industry. Bike manufacturers from...
Two motorcyclists riding at speeds of more than 200km/h have been charged following two separate pursuits with NSW Police in Sydney’s...
Queensland is the first state to relax harsh travel restrictions and will allow riders back on their motorcycles for a ride up to a 50km radius from home. Premier Anastacia Palaszczuk has announced the new rules (click here) from next Saturday (2 May 2020). Meanwhile, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says riding a...
The motorcycle industry, like many others, is struggling during the pandemic, but we wonder whether motorcycling will be a victim...
Volunteer riders at Blood Bikes Australia are offering to deliver to healthcare organisations during the coronavirus pandemic. Founder Peter Davis established the...
Queensland Police are seeking the driver of a silver or light blue sedan who may have witnessed a fatal motorcycle crash in Nathan Street, Brighton, Queensland, about 7.45pm on 18 April 2020. The motorcycle hit a power pole and the 49-year-old male rider died at the scene of the crash ....
Australians and New Zealanders will commemorate the 105th anniversary of the landing at Gallipoli this unusual Anzac Day in a...
COVID-19 Racing MotoGP, like all other forms of sporting events, hasn’t been able to continue in the wake of COVID-19....
Expansion Continues Jawa Motorcycles burst back onto the scene in 2018. Its resurgence was plagued by some issues, but it’s safe to say interest in the company is high. There’s a lot of promise with this company, and now it seems Jawa will bring its bikes to Europe. According to...
Getting Back on the Throttle In the Before COVID-19 (BC) days motorcycle manufacturers were churning out bikes developing new ones...
It’s a 250cc Aprilia is known for its sportbikes, not adventure bikes, but the company recently saw success with the...
Dear Chief Medical Officer, please let us ride again. You look like a reasonable man. And we know you and everybody’s dear ol’ dad ScoMo are seriously considering relaxing the restrictions during this horrible pandemic. So please let us ride. Your own coronavirus hotline and every state and territory heath...
The INT650 and Continental GT Royal Enfield, like many other motorcycle manufacturers right now, is having a tough time selling...
The Electric Scooter The World Needs So, electric scooters seem to be gaining ground, and I would expect they will...
Troy Bayliss will feature in the first of a series of Ducati Corse Official Instagram livestream interviews wth racers to entertain riders on “home detention” during the pandemic. The Aussie three-time World Superbike champion will star on the @ducaticorse Instagram page tonight at 8pm (AEST or noon Italian time). The following two Thursdays...
The Rebirth of the Z50? Honda has the new Monkey, which is a fun and silly-looking bike based on the...
That’s an Angry-Sounding Motorcycle Small 250cc motorcycles don’t usually have four-cylinders so, Kawasaki’s new Ninja ZX-25R is a unique machine....
Insurers should be offering a discount or extension on premiums because people are not able to use their motorcycles and cars as much. We already suggested registration, warranty, roadside assistance and servicing offers should be extended and that met with approval among many readers. So far, the only Australian motorcycle...
The $A31m cash sale of Norton Motorcycles to India’s TVS Motor Company marks India’s turning point towards becoming the next...