Stop signs that may be difficult to see could be made safer with solar-powered smart stop signs that recognise an...
Minibike, Super Fast I’m pretty sure Valentino Rossi could make riding a turtle look fast. Everything he does on a...
Many Assumed This Was Dead Honda sure is working on a lot of weird motorcycles. Just the other day we shared patent filings for a leaning trike that was powered by the Honda Gold Wing engine, and now it looks like the company has filed patents for a Hydrogen motorcycle....
Imagine How Cool This Would Be All-wheel drive is commonplace on cars, but it’s far more rare on motorcycles. There...
The Prior Denials May Be Untrue There were rumors that the investment group Investcorp, which owns Dainese, wanted to sell...
A woman has been charged with dangerous driving and leaving the scene of a crash after a hit-run crash with a motorcycle in Sydney yesterday that left a rider and pillion with leg injuries. Police will allege a 22-year-old Sans Souci woman was driving a Peugeot hatchback east along Forest...
This Could Move Electric Bikes Forward According to a recent press release, Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, and Yamaha are all working...
The Right Man for the Job If you didn’t know, Max Biaggi is a MotoGP racer and ambassador for the...
Could the Niken Have Some Competition? Reverse trikes have been a thing for a while now, but Yamaha’s Niken is a unique one that leans while keeping both front wheels planted on the pavement. By most accounts, it is interesting and actually a very good motorcycle that presents a new...
Camera surfing is the phenomenon where riders and drivers slow as they approach a speed camera and then speed up...
The recent spate of hit-and-run crashes leaving motorcyclists injured and dead has continued with an incident early this morning in...
The big four Japanese manufacturers are believed to be working to standardise electric motorcycle batteries and charging infrastructure. Noted electric vehicle website Electrek says Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki and Suzuki hope to standardise the technology to prevent any obstacles to its adoption. No doubt it’s also hoped to avoid the Beta/VHS...
Veteran racer of 70 years Ken Lucas has been honoured with an Order of Australia Medal for his services to...
Motorcycles Aren’t What’s Clogging the Roads New York City traffic can be nightmarish at times. In an effort to combat...
To the Middle East The Dakar Rally is one of the most amazing races on earth. For years it was held in Africa, but after threats of terrorism, the race was moved to South America. Now the ASO, which is the organizer behind the Dakar Rally has decided to move...
Powering Upcoming Bikes Harley’s new middleweight engine is now officially registered. It’s the engine that will power many Harleys of...
The love of motorcycle ownership could be replaced by the love of riding with an increase in ride sharing and...
Aussie Toby Price (pictured above winning the 2018 Morocco rally) will be heading to the dunes of Saudi Arabia next January to defend his Dakar Rally title when the famed event moves from South America to the Middle East. Dakar organiser ASO has signed a five-year deal from 2020 with the...
Harley-Davidson has employed its first brand president as the company moves to protect its valuable trademark, even challenging a charity’s...
Two recent incidents of 14-year-old boys stealing and crashing a motorcycle and scooter have again raised the issue of unlicensed...
Expensive and Odd-Looking If you want to pretend you’re in your own sci-fi movie riding an electric motorcycle, and you would like to empty your bank account, then Curtiss Motorcycles has the perfect bike for you. It’s called the Zeus, and the company revealed a cafe-racer looking motorcycle a while...
An Age-Old Race for a New Bike Electric motorcycles make a lot of sense for the Pikes Peak International Hill...
Evoke Could Put Every Other Electric Bike to Shame Harley-Davidson, Zero Motorcycles, and even Lightning Motorcycles should be shaking in...
After more than a year in the planning an Uber-style ride-sharing service for scooters has arrived with Scooti starting operations in Melbourne. CEO Brett Balsters says if the Melbourne service is well received, “we will get Sydney going first and then shift our attention on Queensland”. We reported on the service...
A Victorian rider in his 20s has died after a tragic collision with a car that turned out in front...
And We Assumed the Bike Was Fine If you had your heart set on really beating the crap out of...
It Looks Like BMW Will Build It Recently some design patents that were filed in Brazil made their way into the public eye, and they look like the BMW 9cento concept but a production version. This sport touring machine doesn’t have a name as yet, but it could very well...
Could This be Yet Another Indian? Indian Motorcycle recently trademarked the name, Indian Challenger. This comes after a few other...
Police prosecution have dropped charges against an army veteran rider who claimed he was assaulted by police at a March...
A New Leader for the Company Royal Enfield, which is a port of Eicher Motors, recently announced it has appointed a new CEO. The company’s former CEO, Siddhartha Lal, will still remain on as Managing Director of Eichler Motors. The new CEO is Vinod K. Dasari. Dasari worked for General...
No Agreement Yet It would seem that Harley-Davidson has yet another problem on its hands. The workers who build the...
In a surprise result, leather pants may be no safer than some denim riding jeans, according to the latest ratings...
How would you like to experience a lap as fast as the best racer just at the touch of a button? BMW Motorrad Facebook page says they have developed an autopilot, self-riding feature called the iRace Kit for the S 1000 RR motorcycle. They say the software “allows less experienced...
These Folks Commute on Two Wheels Commuting on a motorcycle is one of the most economical ways to get to...
Euro 4 emissions laws have already hit most supersport models, many air-cooled bikes, single-cylinder adventurers and most Japanese cruisers and...
Need to Have the Right Training and Equipment The Harley-Davidson LiveWire will be making its way to customers and that means the dealers that want to sell it must be ready. First off, that means dealers will be adding charging stations. Second, it means that each dealer that wants to...
One of the biggest hurdles in the coming revolution of the electric vehicle is finding enough charging stations so motorists...
If you think Australian road rules and lane filtering rules vary substantially between states, how about the USA where the...
Canberra rider Alan Francis has succeeded in having his $600 disabled parking fine waived, but will now campaign for disabled riders to get a more compact motorcycle-specific permit. Alan, 68, has now permanently attached his permit to his 2015 Harley-Davidson Low Rider’s left pannier. But that leaves him without a...
It’s Here We reported on the Shoei GT-Air II a while back and now it’s officially coming to dealers in...