The Electrified Future Is Now Don’t be fooled by the unassuming plug in the wall, electric motorcycles are the silent...
Battery Technology Isn’t Quite There Yet The future is electric. That’s what Ducati CEO Claudio Domenicali said at a University of Bologna...
The Smart Helmets Are Coming Smart helmets are the next big thing in motorcycle gear. While there a few different companies, such as Shoei, working on the technology, there are also smaller players like the Australian company Forcite. That company just received some new funding that will ensure it hits its...
Big business pushing sales through discounting is hurting the motorcycle industry in Australia, says a motorcycle importer and multi-dealership owner. James...
Rage Silently on Your Commute There’s a definite electric motorcycle revolution occurring in the motorcycle industry. One of the latest...
Get Your Fix of Beautiful Customs Custom motorcycles are intoxicatingly beautiful works of art that also happen to provide some of the most fun you can have on two wheels. Now there’s a feature film called Oil In The Blood. The film premiered at the One Moto Show in Portland, Oregon, earlier this...
The First Photo Looks Good Lightning Motorcycle’s new Strike bike is set to be fully revealed in March. Until then,...
Motorcycles may soon be coming to the rescue of crash victims and broken-down vehicles on tollways around Australia to keep...
Despite slowing sales and a war of words with President Trump, Harley-Davidson riders still seem to love the brand, according to a biennial report on brand intimacy. Harley was sixth in the MBLM Brand Intimacy Report on more than 400 brands behind Disney, Apple, Amazon, Chevrolet and Netflix. However, the...
A 24-year-old Perth rider has died after a woman who had been involved in a police pursuit crashed into him...
New Patent Drawings Reveal Progress It would seem that Kawasaki has an electric motorcycle it’s working on. Visordown nabbed some...
16 Years and Counting Get ready for an adventure. KTM set the dates for its U.S. Adventure Rider Rally and the Canadian rally. The motorcycle company has hosted this event for 15 years, and it does so at various locations around the world. The 2019 rally will take place in Breckenridge,...
Another Player to the EV Market Add Druid Motorcycles to the list of companies that make electric bikes. Well, Druid...
Test Aprilia Motorcycles On the Track Get ready for some fun. Aprilia is now offering what it’s calling Aprilia Racer...
Get Ready for Harley’s Next Efforts Harley-Davidson needs to innovate to change its fortune. Currently, the motorcycle manufacturer isn’t doing so hot. It hopes that new bikes will entice a whole new group of buyers. Recently, filings with the European Union Intellectual Property Office showed details about three of the company’s upcoming...
Victoria Police have enlisted their first patrol car with automatic number plate recognition technology, lagging behind other states. The technology,...
Just Flip It Around In a recent patent filing, Suzuki decided it would take the standard motorcycle engine placement and...
Automatic brakes that sense an imminent crash and activate an emergency stop have been endorsed in all new cars from 2020. Are motorcycles next? The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe says 40 countries have agreed to require new cars and light commercial vehicles be equipped with automatic brakes. Those...
The Smart Helmet Confirmed At the last CES, NS West and Shoei teamed up to bring a unique smart helmet...
Most motorists hate covert speed detection by police, yet they seem to be finding more and more sneaky ways to...
Alpinestars Isn’t Backing Down We reported that the court ruling that Alpinestars infringed on Daixnese’s patent for its D-Air gear recently. That court ruling states that Alpinestars can’t continue to sell its Air-Tech gear in Germany and has to compensate Dainese for the infringement and recall all the gear it...
It’s a Bit More Upright If you were worried that the Lightning Motorcycles Strike was going to have the same...
(Contributed post for our eco-friendly UK readers) With air pollution responsible for some 50,000 deaths a year in Britain, electric...
A road safety academic who advocates wire rope barriers, lower speed limits and mandatory hi-vis vests for riders, and alcohol interlocks and electronic rider aids on bikes has been honoured with a special award. UNSW Sydney Professor Raphael Grzebieta has been honoured with the 2019 Kenneth A Stonex award in recognition...
Some Proper Racing Tires for Your Small Bike We’re not the only one noticing a major shift in the motorcycle...
Pedals and Electric Power Mopeds were popular machines in the 1970s and 80s, but over time the bicycle/motorcycle bike fell...
A San Francisco police officer riding an electric Zero Motorcycle recently pulled over a driver in an electric Tesla Model 3 in what must have been the quietest police pursuit of all time. Zero posted an image of the historic moment on their Facebook page, but it may not be...
It’s been a horror start to the year for motorcycle fatalities in Victoria with 12 riders now dead after two...
This video of a Volvo driver blasting through a rider’s buffer zone to undertake traffic on a multi-lane road is...
The Return of the Daytona The 765 engine first appeared on Triumph’s Street Triple, and now it looks like a new Daytona will get that engine as well. The motorcycle spies over at Motorcycle News spotted the new bike riding around. The images of the return of the Daytona with that...
Triumph Motorcycles is surveying customers with an email asking if they’ve ridden an electric motorcycle and whether the British company...
What would you think if you came back to your parked motorbike or scooter after work today and found a...
A Good-Looking Line of Lids NEXX Helmets has a good lineup of helmets for 2019 that will appeal to riders of all sorts from touring riders to racers. The collection is mostly full-face lids with one modular design. In a press release, the company said all of its helmets are...
The Claim Was More Than Just Hot Air According to a Dainese press release, a Munich Court of Appeals came...
It Looks Like a Robot and Acts Like One, Too Yamaha won an iF Design Award 2019 for its concept motorcycle...
The offender who strung wire at neck height across a Queensland forestry trail to “trap” riders faces a three-year jail sentence if caught. Gympie trail rider Ben Bird, 25, says he could have been decapitated if he was riding any faster when he hit the wire in Amamoor State Forest...
If you’ve ever been a witness at a motorcycle crash scene you may have noticed that medics (ambulance officers and...
Get Ready to Ride Orange KTM announced its new schedule for its Ride Orange Street Demo program on its website....
Your Lid Can’t Protect You If It Doesn’t Stay On According to a new survey performed by the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL), around 25 percent of motorcyclists wear the wrong size helmet. The survey also revealed that around 20 percent of riders said their helmet almost came off in a crash....
Roadside signs, advertising billboards or electronic mobile signs on busy commuter routes advising motorists that lane filtering is legal would...