Riders concerned about road surfaces and maintenance may be interested in a test Sydney City Council is running with concrete...
The Higher You Go, The Bigger the Issue Royal Enfield introduced the Interceptor 650 and the Continental GT 650 to...
Recharged and Ready to Go Just about three short months after a catastrophic fire destroyed all the bikes and much of the equipment of MotoE, the racing series is back to testing and on track to complete its revised schedule. According to Visordown, the Energica bikes that make up MotoE...
A clear majority of road users believe education is the most important road safety strategy, according to a preliminary review...
The push for mandatory traction control in motorcycles seems to be starting already with a VicRoads safety campaign emphasising it...
The Best of Both Worlds or Just Weird? Pedal-assist electric bicycles are really cool. I rode one all over Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, one time and had an absolute blast. It made me wonder if I shouldn’t trade in my loud, dirty Tomos moped for cruising over to a coffee shop....
Regulations are Forcing Honda’s Hand Some people say the new emissions regulations for many areas around the world are moving...
(Sponsored post) Going on a night ride can be a calming and exhilarating experience for any motorcycle enthusiast. The absence...
Australian police and transport authorities will monitor the British development and trial of prototype noise cameras that can detect loud motor vehicle exhausts. The UK Department of Transport will test the prototype cameras in the coming months, but will not fine offenders. Yet! Noise cameras “New camera technology to be...
(Sponsored post) There are plenty of people who enjoy riding motorcycles. If you fit into this category, there is a...
(Sponsored post. Photo Courtesy of Pixabay) Getting out on the blacktop and feeling the wind rushing all around your body is...
More New Arai Helmets Is Never a Bad Thing We like to think of ourselves as well-educated motorcyclists here at Web Bike World, and part of that is keeping up on the latest gear from major manufacturers. That’s why I got pretty pumped when Arai’s announcement of some new models...
A new motorcycle “Always On” safety campaign featuring an online 10-question quiz and video has just been launched by VicRoads...
Israel company StoreDot has produced a lithium-ion battery that charges an electric scooter in five minutes. It is one of...
Moving On Up KTM’s CEO Stefan Pierer is an impressive man. He took KTM from being a low company that was not in not the greatest position to now selling more motorcycles globally than Harley-Davidson. Yep, KTM just passed up the American-based company in terms of overall sales of motorcycles...
A Bike Many Will Drool Over While testing in the Alps, the new KTM 1290 Super Duke R prototype was...
A popular YouTube channel rider has died after crashing his BMW motorcycle into a car while steering with his feet...
Safer hi-tech motorcycles, such as the Damon X above, will attract the future generation of motorcyclists scared of the dangers of riding and possibly save the industry from extinction, a motorcycle start-up says. Damon Motorcycles CEO and founder Jay Giraud has produced a white paper about the future of the...
Riders could cop a hefty parking fine if their motorcycle is parked with its wheels inside a parking bay, but...
Some Good News About Something Naked I recently reported about the controversy surrounding MV Agusta’s naked model (a woman not...
It’ll Happen on July 7 Want to ride a motorcycle through a set of wooden walls that are set on fire? Me neither, but apparently that’s what Vicki Golden, four-time X Games medalist, plans to do. Golden will attempt to set a new Fire Wall world record at the Evel...
A plan to temporarily lower speed limits on regional highway intersections when approaching side-road traffic is detected may not work...
An Effort to Reach A Wider Audience Interesting and tasteful advertising is something that’s hard to pull off. It takes...
A Good-Looking Motorcycle for a Fair Price Nobody will ever accuse the Royal Enfield Bullet of being the most advanced machine on the road, but that’s really not the point of the motorcycle. The company’s Bullet depends on nostalgia and simplicity with a little modernity blended in to woo customers....
Battery swap technology has received a boost with Yamaha unveiling their EC-05 electric scooter with Gogoro lithium-ion battery packs you...
A Beefier Supermoto The guys over at MoreBikes shared some photos of the new KTM 790 SMC that was recently...
A Townsville rider is fighting for his life after being seriously injured in a crash last night when a vehicle changed lanes. Police say the rider was travelling northbound on the Ring Road at Douglas about 7pm (10 June 2019) when a vehicle is believed to have changed lanes. The rider...
One of the First Big Steps By a Major Manufacturer Yamaha recently teamed up with the Taiwan company Gogoro to...
Facebook has applied for a patent for what they call a robotic self-balancing electric motorcycle, although it looks more like...
Sydney motorcycle dealer Peter Raymond Robinson, 59, has died in Bali when a truck ran through a red light and hit his scooter on Friday (7 June 2019). Bali police have arrested the truck driver, 24-year-old Dicky Agung Wijaksana. Graphic CCTV footage of the crash was posted on Instagram showing...
The Best Place for Honda Lovers Are you a huge fan of Honda motorcycles? Then the 2019 Goodwood Festival of...
MV Agusta Sees Nothing Wrong With the Ad We reported on the MV Agusta Superveloce 800 when the company announced...
(Sponsored post for our North American readers) In the U.S., 5,286 people died from motorcycle accidents in 2016. Sadly, there is a much higher risk for fatalities in motorcycle accidents than car accidents. While there is no way to guarantee your safety on a motorcycle, there are a few things...
If you think the cops are tough on noisy aftermarket exhausts here, try India where they hammer them flat by...
Gold Coast racer Anthony West, 37, has parked his motorcycle racing career over a seven-year doping dispute with the FIM...
A 34-year-old male motorcycle rider has died in a crash with a truck that appears to have been turning across his path. The accident happened about 2.15pm yesterday (7 June 2019) in Garfield Road East, Riverstone, in Sydney’s north-west. Police have been told the motorcycle was travelling east along Garfield...
The KTM factory has bought the distribution rights to KTM and Husqvarna motorcycles in Australia and New Zealand, the company’s...
Some bright spark at Yamaha has filed patent designs that seem to indicate they are planning an electric sports bike...
Production Could Begin in 2022 It looks like KTM and Bajaj will be putting out some electric motorcycles soon, and I’m pretty excited about that. Motofire, recently reported that the companies plan on producing some electric motorcycles or scooters with power around three to 10 kW, which equates to about...
It Wants to Stop Motorcycle Fatalities Altogether There are a lot of innovative ideas when it comes to motorcycle safety...