A 70-year-old Brisbane man has passed away in Royal Brisbane Hospital over night after falling off his motorcycle yesterday afternoon....
Adding a Couple More Years Helmet laws are a controversial topic in many states. Every state has its own law...
You Might Be Surprised At the Results Crushing a motorcycle helmet with a hydraulic press isn’t the most scientific test of a helmet. That said, it does demonstrate the weak points of a helmet when that helmet is put under extreme amounts of pressure. The team over at the Hydraulic...
Let Triumph’s Electrified Future Begin Triumph recently announced a partnership with Williams Advanced Engineering, Integral Powertrain, and the University of...
Not Your Typical Bike for the Race I don’t cover many motorcycle competitions, but this story is too good not...
The real boom in electric vehicles is in pedal-assisted e-bikes which are being used as commuters. But are they bicycles or motorcycles? The question is now being asked by legislators, bicycle and motorcycle industry representatives. In fact, the Union Cycliste Internationale and FIM are fighting over who can race in...
A rider who evaded Northern Territory Police and sped away at up to 280km/h on a Kawasaki ZX-10R is still...
The Start to Another Good Year Ducati is having a good 2019 so far. The Q1 sales results came in...
A Super Affordable Model? Honda does some weird things sometimes. Lately, the company has had numerous patents for high-tech applications for motorcycles and gear, but now it seems the company is truly going back to basics. It just patented a design that has what looks like a small single cylinder...
A motorist faces two charges of driving with intent to menace after two incidents involving a car swerving toward lane filtering...
Which ever shade of politics revs you up, there is little on offer from the political parties specifically for motorcyclists...
VicRoads has rejected the use of a special motorcycle to inspect for motorcycle-specific road hazards, preferring to use specially trained inspectors. Last month Coroner Paresa Spanos found that a bump that caused the death of rider Mark Rodgers and pillion Jodi Walsham may not have been detected by VicRoads because...
That Liquid-Cooled Engine Could Get VVT Not too long ago, we reported on the news that Indian Motorcycle had a...
It Looks Pretty Awesome Triumph’s new Rocket 3 is the most powerful production motorcycle. The new Triumph Rocket 3 has...
The prices of electric motorcycles will eventually come down like the prices of flat-screen TVs did, but right now they are very expensive. We’ve charted the top 10 world’s most expensive motorcycles and were surprised to find they even include two pedal-assisted bikes, the $US80,000 (about $A114,500) Black Trail electric...
Burger King now has motorcyclists lane filtering their Whopper burgers to hungry Mexico City drivers who can be stuck in...
Police are appealing for witnesses after a Melbourne rider was thrown from his motorbike and injured in a collision with...
Not Quite There Yet Lane splitting is a hot topic for many motorcyclists and state legislators right now. More states are considering laws based around the practice. Oregon is currently considering a bill that would legalize lane splitting on the state’s roads. However, Asphalt & Rubber notes that the bill,...
The First of the Races to be Held There We reported a while back that the legendary Dakar Rally will...
No Upsidedown Bike Afterall In case you aren’t familiar with the Nembo 32, it’s a motorcycle with the engine flipped...
A Limited-Time Offer Have you always wanted to own an MV Agusta motorcycle? Me too. That’s why I’m pretty pumped the company decided to offer 1.99 percent financing in the USA. Of course, I’m broke and you may not be, so head over to your MV Agusta dealer to take...
Upgrade Your Honda With Rizoma Honda’s Neo Sport Cafe motorcycles are some of the coolest bikes on the road right...
Get Ready to Have Some Fun Need a bike for a day? Want to ride around on the Indian of...
You Must Wear One I’m all for people making their own decisions, but helmet laws make a lot of sense. They ensure that riders have at least the most basic of protection while riding. Proponents of helmets as optional equipment say the issue is about choice, but health officials and...
This Rendering Looks Fantastic Ducati’s CEO has said that his company is looking at developing an electric motorcycle, but at...
Riders injured in single-vehicle, no-fault crashes may be failing to make compensation claims for fear of facing negligent riding charges,...
An Interesting Moped For the Future I’m a big fan of mopeds—those little pedal-internal-combustion-engined bikes that have more or less disappeared from the modern motorcycle industry. I own a 1989 Tomos Golden Bullet. I love the little underpowered thing. It’s perfect for shooting over to a coffee shop or up...
Riders should pay compulsory third party (CTP) insurance only once for themselves, not for each motorcycle they own, says the...
Round Two With the Lito Sora Motorcycles is an electric motorcycle startup based in Montreal, Canada. The company released the...
We’ve seen some weird and wonderful designs in electric motorcycles, but nothing comes close to the Racer X with its big “X” design. The uncomfortable-looking bike is the work of Mark Atkinson of Speed of the Cheese Racing custom motorcycle company in Utah, the same state that hosts the Bonneville...
Get Ready to Head That Way On May 11 and 12 KTM will hold an opening event for its new...
In Some Parts of the World, It Makes Sense Ride-hailing companies like Uber are struggling to make a profit in...
Riders who have crashed in the past decade are being invited to do a survey into rider behaviour that expands on a previous pilot study into the effects of ABS in motorcycle crashes. Click Here to participate in the “Dynamics of Motorcycle Crashes Survey”. Pilot study In 2016, UK motorcycle...
A motorcyclist has died and another is being airlifted to hospital following a collision between two bikes in Shepparton East...
Get Ready for More Electric Racing After a horrendous fire destroyed all of the bikes set to race in the...
A Trials Bike You Can Go Anywhere With Chris Northover has ridden motorcycles since he was a kid. He’ll be the first to tell you just how wonderful an internal combustion engine is. He loved motorcycles mostly because he loved gas-powered engines. Now he rides an electric bike. He takes...
How would you like to earn credit points toward your degree by learning to ride a motorcycle in a special...
Whoever thought they would hear the words “Ducati” and “electric scooters” in the same sentence? But now it seems Perth-based...
A Bit Unexpected We’ve reported on the possibility of a Ducati electric motorcycle in the future. Now it seems there will be a Ducati scooter long before there’s a Ducati motorcycle. According to electrek, the company recently signed an agreement with a Chinese scooter company called Vmoto. Vmoto makes electric...
The Company Calls It ‘The Ultimate Motorcycle’ Triumph’s Rocket 3 is something that excites the hell out of me. I...