Electric motorcycles provide designers with a whole new set of possibilities such including different materials such as this Phillipines-made Banatti...
Riders will no longer be able to pull over on Eddies Corner on the Old Pacific Highway – or Old...
Riders have been invited to attend the funeral cortege and celebration of the life and works of well-respected and loved rider John Anthony JC Curran. JC passed away on Saturday, 4 August, 2018, after a long battle with prostate cancer, aged 65. Riders who remember JC are asked to say...
Imagine taking the Ducati desmodromic valve system and adding electronic control that provides brief bursts of two-stroke power! The result...
Speculation of a boycott of Harley-Davidson over plans to shift some production overseas are blown out of proportion, yet it...
Turnouts that allow safe and legal passing are unfortunately scarce, but would prevent frustration that can lead to rash and dangerous passing manoeuvres. Many of our favourite riding routes are winding, single-lane roads with double lines or unbroken lines that prevent passing. Slow-moving traffic, cyclists and trucks on these roads...
City speed limits used to be 60km/h, then they dropped to 50km/h, then 40km/h and now a Melbourne council wants...
An online petition calling for relaxed handlebar height rules for rider comfort and so lane filtering riders hit fewer car...
Cashed-up Australian fans of Indian Motorcycle can express their love for the brand with a range of three tribute watches valued at around $5500 from Swiss watch maker Baume & Mercier. The Clifton Club Burt Munro Tribute, Clifton Club Scout and the Clifton Club Chief watches will be available to...
Hollywood actor Tom Hardy trades his personal Triumph Thruxton R for a Ducati Scrambler Full Throttle in the upcoming Spiderman...
Unsecured debris falling off trucks and utes is a fairly common occurrence and very dangerous for riders as seen in...
If the motorcycle industry is to survive it needs to encourage the next generation of riders and one of the most inspiring sights is 10-year-old Kayla Yaakov beating adult riders on the track. Inspiring children and parents Since Facebook page Kick-Ass Kids posted the above video of Kayla on their...
Benelli is the latest motorcycle manufacturer to announce it will open a factory to assemble and build bikes in India,...
A lone resident of sleepy Beechmont on the Gold Coast hinterland has warned riders that residents are “forming protest groups”...
Germany is replacing dangerous steel road signs and posts with plastic versions to improve safety for motorcyclists who hit them. The new road signs are being installed to point out that there is a sharp bend coming up. German safety research facility DEKRA has tested the new road signs and found...
Hanoi plans to ban motorcycles and scooters by 2030 in a move that is disturbingly growing across the world and...
Two European motorcyclist associations have lent their support to an Australian family’s campaign to halt the rollout of wire rope...
Harley-Davidson has reportedly applied for a patent for sensors that detect road hazards such as wildlife and then apply auto emergency braking. After Harley-Davidson stunned the world last week by announcing plans to introduce electric motorbikes and bicycles, and an adventure bike, the rumour mill is now in overdrive. The...
A worldwide program to find, encourage, test and develop innovative technology that will improve motorcycle road safety is being launched....
Burt Munro’s great nephew, Lee Munro, is returning to Bonneville Speed Week on a modified Indian Scout in an attempt to...
A disturbingly realistic film project about motorcycles being banned in a future world of autonomous vehicles will go ahead despite failing to raise funds from an Indiegogo campaign. Director of The Last Motorcycle on Earth, Eric Ristau, has confirmed they are going ahead with production and says he appreciates the supportive...
BMW Motorrad has released this video in which Tom Cruise says he does his own stunts in the sixth Mission...
President Donald Trump says his is “getting very close” to approving a waiver to allow 15% ethanol fuel blends (E15)...
This YouTube video of an artist making a full-size Kawasaki ZX-10R out of cardboard has gone viral with almost two million views. Motorcycles have long been an important part of our culture and our art. They have been the inspiration for many artists and sculptors, their parts have been included...
American company CSC Motorcycles is considering exporting its Chinese-made City Slicker electric motorcycle costing just $US2500. Landed here the City Slicker...
If more was done to encourage motorcycles and scooters, cities across the world would save billions of dollars on providing...
Indian Motorcycle has announced plans to increase production in their Polaris plant in Poland to avoid 31% European tariffs on US goods, Associated Press has reported. This follows Harley-Davidson’s announcement it would also move more production offshore, probably to a new facility opening in Thailand next month for the same...
Melbourne hopes to join several other cities by introducing a congestion tax for its CBD to solve traffic problems, but...
Harley-Davidson will soon start building bikes in Thailand with lower prices “largely in our Asian market”, says company CFO John...
Centre-of-the-road parking should be turned over to motorcycles as it is less dangerous than for cars and would increase the number of parking spots, according to the Motorcycle Riders Association (MRA) in Victoria. The suggestion is one of many being put forward by riders and their representatives after Melbourne’s Lord Mayor...
The widow of a rider killed in a crash involving a dead kangaroo and wire rope barriers (WRB) has called...
Motorcycle racing at Mt Panorama has moved a step closer with Bathurst Regional Council awarding a $3.7 million tender to...
Seventeen Australian and New Zealand Harley-Davidson dealers will take on the world in the Battle of the Kings custom motorcycle build-off for the first time since its launch in 2015. MotorbikeWriter.com has been invited to be one of the judges in the Australian leg of the competition to find a...
Why is a self-described chubby white-haired little granny still riding at 62 and intending to ride for as long as...
We don’t expect hubless wheeled motorcycles to become a thing, but this one certainly has turned some heads. The TMC...
The 1970 Husky 400 Cross ridden by Steve McQueen on the beach in the 1971 cult motorcycle documentary On Any Sunday is going up for auction in October at the Barber Motorsports Museum in Birmingham, Alabama. The bike is expected to fetch a significant amount of interest if previous McQueen...
(Sponsored post) The biggest challenge when buying motorcycle spare parts is to determine whether the part is genuine or fake. There...
Congratulations to France for winning the World Cup, but we would be a whole lot more excited if soccer were...
A Berlin economic development agency has sent a letter to Harley-Davidson suggesting they open a factory there to build motorcycles for the European market. The iconic American manufacturer has not yet responded to the offer, but has expressed its intention to move some manufacturing to Europe to avoid 31% tariffs....
Ducati will add front and rear radar and cornering ABS to its entire range in 2020 as part of its...