In a major advance for electric vehicles, in particular motorcycles, a Texas company has produced the Hunstable Electric Turbine (HET)...
While 50,000 protested against anti-democratic Moscow council elections, Russian leader Vladimir Putin was riding a Ural sidecar to a bike...
And You Should You’ve probably heard of The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride at this point. If you haven’t it’s the largest charity ride for men’s health in the world. The ride is a worldwide event that raises money to battle prostate cancer and suicide in men. It’s about helping men live...
Throw a Leg Over Several Machines At this year’s AIM Expo in September attendees will have the opportunity to throw...
A police report that claims riders of high-powered motorbikes are over-represented in the crash statistics demonises riders as “thrill seekers”...
Rumor Is It Could Break the Motorcycle Auction Record If you’re looking for a legendary piece of motorcycle history, then look no further than this bike. Owned by the King himself, this is Elvis Presley’s 1976 Harley-Davidson FLH 1200 Electra Glide. It will go up for auction at GWS Auctions...
Yamaha’s Claims About This Bike are True The Yamaha Niken is an odd machine. It features two wheels up front,...
There are very few regrets about my 40-odd years of motorcycling, but there are a few that are worth mentioning....
A rider who was rear-ended believes he would have been able to avoid it if he had been taught to lane filter and has called for the skill to be included in learner and advanced rider-training courses. Shannon, 37, of Caboolture, Queensland, says he was rear-ended because he lacked the training and...
Australian millennials are taking longer to get their driving/riding licences and are using public transport more, according to a multi-national...
It Would Make Sense The rumors are swirling that Yamaha may do a smaller version of the Tracer with a...
Not Very Green Afterall People look to electric scooters and cars and motorcycles and think of them as carbon-free machines. That’s simply not the case. People think of a shared resource like scooters or mopeds as another thing with few evils. Again, not the case. According to a study by...
A rider crossing a lane to filter between traffic t-bones another lane-filtering rider in this video released by the Queensland...
A 23-year-old male rider has died after his motorcycle left the road and hit a tree in Coffs Harbour overnight....
Add Some Flair to Your Harley Harley-Davidson just announced two special custom paint schemes in various colors for 2020. They’re called the Quick Shift and Mayhem Limited Paint Sets. The special paint jobs can be applied to 2018 and later Breakout and Fat Bob or 2017 and later Road King,...
A French Big Boy Coming By Way of China First off, this bike won’t come to the U.S. At least,...
Motorcycle racing has taken a step close to returning to Bathurst’s Mt Panorama with the unveiling of plans for a...
(Sponsored post for our North American motorcycle owners) Motorcycles are fun to ride, easy to park and fuel efficient, but are more dangerous than cars, leaving the rider vulnerable in a crash. According to the American Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, motorcyclists are 30 times more likely to die in...
A Detailed Look at the Iconic Brand If there’s one scooter I could have in my shed, it’d be a...
This Could Make For Some Killer Motorcycles It’s been two long years since reports indicated that Triumph and Bajaj could...
An appeal against a “light penalty” for a Canberra driver who twice swerved dangerously at legally lane-filtering motorcyclists has been rejected. The driver, Jake Searle, 28, had been charged with two counts of driving with intent to menace. He faced maximum penalties of more than $3000 in fines or 12 months in...
Electric motorcycles don’t have the design constraints of a petrol-powered bike with its bulky engine, fuel tank, driveline and exhaust...
It Looks Like It Received Some Updates Those crazy spy photographers are at it again, and this time they snagged...
It’s a Weird One I don’t get why people think they have to make electric motorcycles look absolutely ridiculous. You can make an electric motorcycle look like, ya know, a motorcycle. Case in point is this horrid creation from the company Newron. I do have to give it to Newron,...
It’s Selling Better Than Expected Moto Guzzi has a winner on its hands with the V85 TT. The motorcycle is...
Your Helmet Does Provide Impact Protection If you thought that jacket you wear while riding provides you with good abrasion...
(Contributed post by Steve Charli) With artificial intelligence and self-driving cars dominating the automotive industry, one can’t help but wonder if there’s any technology that’s similar in the motorcycle industry. And to my delight, I’ve found that BMW has already made something similar. CES 2019, Las Vegas. Cue BMW engineer...
A second NSW rider has died today (3 August 2019) in what police describe as a single-vehicle accident and later...
World Environment Day may be held in June, but every day is a world environment day for riders! It may...
NSW Police have discovered the body of a young male rider who crashed in Dubbo overnight. Police say officers from Orana Mid-Western Police District were travelling along Cobbora Road near Myall S treet, Dubbo, about 5am today (3 August 2019) when they found the crashed motorcycle and rider. They believe...
A 21-year-old male rider has been seriously injured in a collision with a truck on Maitland Rd, Hexham, west of...
More Riders Is Good for Everyone It seems like every company associated with the motorcycle industry wants to see more...
Some New Looks for the Venerable Lid Arai’s Corsair-X full-face motorcycle helmet is one of the better ones on the market. The company revealed some new graphics late last year for the helmet, but we received an email saying they’d add a couple of additional graphics to the list. Let’s...
A “Change” petition to relax motorcycle handlebar rules last year attracted more than 11,000 signatures, but was ignored by the...
Misuse of mobile phones in cars is not the only driver distraction as car manufacturers are shovelling more and more...
If you are interested in reading a true love story with motorcycles as a central theme, check out Mary Jane Black’s debut memoir, “She Rode a Harley”. The 256-page book is a tale of abuse, true love and loss. It is published by She Writes Press and goes on sale...
A Small-Displacement Dual Purpose When you first hear about the fact that Kawasaki is coming out with a 2020 KLX230,...
Hilariously Good Fun As a minibike racer myself—albeit at a much odder venue than the one shown below—I love to...
Long-awaited roadworks to fix the poor state of the famed and much-loved Oxley Highway’s mountain section are about to get underway. Last year local riders described temporary repairs to the mountain section as “dangerous”. Local rider Ken Healey said on the Port Macquarie Road Riders Facebook page that the mountain is...
Esoteric American motorcycle company Curtiss Motorcycles has unveiled a third electric motorcycle concept called Psyche to compete against Harley-Davidson’s LiveWire. The company...