Sikhs are seeking an exemption from wearing motorcycle helmets on up to 500cc bikes on local 50/60km/h streets through a...
Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman are riding specially equipped Harley-Davidson LiveWire electric motorcycles with dual-sport tyres and wire wheels. Last week...
The recent spate of hit-and-run accidents involving motorcyclists continues with an SUV driver charged after allegedly running a red light and hitting a rider in north-west Sydney last week. Police say a Nissan utility was travelling south on Windsor Road, Rouse Hill, about 9.30pm last Thursday (12 September 2019) when it...
It’s Coming Stateside No Matter What Leaning trikes are one thing, but what about a leaning quad? That’s the question...
Finally, Official Confirmation Yep, Honda will debut the new Africa Twin at AIMExpo. The bike will be revealed on September...
A 24-year-old male rider has died in a head-on crash with an SUV at Marom Creek, near Ballina, NSW, yesterday (15 September 2019). NSW Police could not provide any more details and say a report will be prepared for the Coroner. The accident occurred about 4pm at the T intersection...
(Sponsored post on motorcycle style for our Northern Hemisphere readers) Choosing the right motorcycle can be a challenging task for...
Among the 2020 line-up of Can-Am Spyder and Ryker roadsters unveiled last week is a range of electric two- and...
Usually motorcycle riders are the victims in hit and run accidents but one trail biker is giving us a bad name after hitting a 77-year-old pedestrian and fleeing the scene. Queensland Police are appealing for witnesses to the incident in Kin Kora, near Gladstone, around 5pm on 31 August 2019....
An 81-year-old rider is counting his blessings after hitting an oil spill and sliding his BMW until the front wheel...
It’s Coming Up While it’s not clear what Honda will reveal, the publication Asphalt & Rubber revealed that the company...
Two Power Variants? Why Not A while back I reported on the fact that the Kawasaki ZX-25R could gain two cylinders. That information came from the publication Young Machine. Now it seems that the model has been confirmed for the Indonesian market and will debut at the Tokyo Motor Show,...
What Mad Scientist Shadetree Mechanic Thought This Up? I love people who get crazy ideas into their head and then...
Two New and Different Bikes Benelli and its parent company SSR aren’t huge players in the North American market, but...
Police have released dramatic footage today of brave bike cops leading evacuations during Queensland’s bushfire crisis this week. The footage shows the cops riding amid swirling embers surrounded by flames as they escort people from their homes on the Sunshine Coast. With hot and windy conditions returning in the next...
Scooters, Trikes, Motorcycles, and More BRP connected up with Alta Motors a while back. Now the company has seven interesting,...
A 63-year-old Victorian man has died in a crash on a dirt road while out riding in a group southwest...
Proof Surfaces There’s been a lot of speculation about what the next Africa Twin will be. I’d heard it would be a smaller displacement machine and that it would be a bigger displacement one. The jury is still out on the smaller displacement model, but Motorcycle.com has confirmation that the...
Which Do You Want? Indian Motorcycle has officially announced its air-cooled cruiser and touring lineup. This comes about a week...
A New Generation of Electric Powerhouses Energica has a couple of new electric superbikes in the works. The company has...
An Easy Way to Buy MV Agusta’s Serie Oro Superveloce 800 and Brutale 1000 didn’t just sell out quickly and annoy some people with their advertising. The bikes were also used to introduce a new online ordering system that MV Agusta has. The company introduced this new system with the...
The end appears to be coming for noisy motorcycle exhausts as noise detection devices are being trialled in the UK...
Good News for Touring Riders My colleague Brandon Jackson pointed out to me that Aerostich has brought back the Transit...
Is Active Aero Coming? It appears that Honda is working on a new CBR1000RR Fireblade. That bike could also be the recipient of some fancy new aerodynamics equipment. Active aero, that is. According to Visordown, Honda has filed patent paperwork for a 1,000cc motorcycle with a four-cylinder engine. That bike...
An Electric Adventure? Charlie Boorman said a while back that he and Ewan McGregor would do another adventure together. This...
Honda has been busy this past year filing several interesting patents including the most recent for active aero and direct...
Two people have died in a single-motorcycle crash in Sydney’s south today and another rider died in a crash at Castle Rock yesterday. About 11.10am (Sunday 8 September 2019), emergency services were called to Forest Road, Peakhurst, after reports that a motorcycle hit a pole. The male rider and a...
Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman are expected to do their third travel documentary, Long Way Up, from South America to Los...
The coming revolution of automated cars and trucks is supposed to create safer roads, however a new report raises concerns...
A driver who caused the death of a rider has walked free from court over a technicality that allows motorists to dangerously pull over on the side of multi-lane highways and motorways. Burpengary rider Luke Harris, aged just 25, died on 28 December 2017 in a crash caused by a...
Riders have been asked to stay away from bushfires in Queensland and northern NSW this weekend for their own sake...
Just days after we published an article in which Queensland Police waived an erroneous fine for a “void” motorcycle helmet...
You’re Sneaky, Indian I can’t claim credit for having spotted this. The guys over at Canada Moto Guide managed to notice that when Indian launched its 2020 Scout lineup it left a good Easter egg in one of the pictures. It is the Indian Challenger, and it looks really friggin...
Plenty to Love from Yamaha Yamaha has some new and improved bikes for the 2020 model year. The company has...
A fundraiser page has been started to raise money for the family of rider Scott Rose, 39, who was killed...
Inked Up and Ready to Ride Tattoos and motorcycles go pretty well together. They have for a long time. Because of this, the guys at Game Over Cycles decided to do something special. They built the world’s first tattooed motorcycle. The custom build is based on a Harley-Davidson Heritage model....
A Light Weight Super Sports for the U.S. A hot new rumor in the motorcycling world is that Honda could...
Let the Sci-Fi Future Begin Bosch makes all sorts of cool stuff for cars and motorcycles. The company was the...
The death of a 61-year-old West Rockhampton man in a crash during a charity ride on the Moonie Highway yesterday (Wednesday 4 August 2019) highlights the risks of riding in a group. They were heading west on the highway, about 20km west of Westmar, when one motorcycle collided with two...
An Old Video That’s Still Relevant Peter Fonda and Evel Knievel are two of the most famous riders ever. In...