How will riders be affected when Australia’s biggest motorcycle dealership network buys a major motorcycle accessories company to become the...
Mofaz Motosikal Sdn Bhd (aka “Mofaz”), is widely known for their Momos brand motorcycles. But the company, located on Jalan Damansara...
Michigan rider Phil Comar, known as the No Hands Man, has unfortunately fallen short of his attempt to break his own world record by riding 600 miles (965km) without touching the handlebars. “I had an unfortunate stop due to a traffic slow down because of some road construction,” he told...
Motorcyclists will soon know how safe their riding gear is after the launch today of a 12-month pilot program to...
Motorcycle safety research will be the focus of a major seminar conducted by the Deakin University next month as a new...
Honda is set to reveal the Riding Assist-e electric version of the self-balancing concept it unveiled in January, 2017. The Riding Assist-e electric self-balancing bike looks production-ready. Below is a video of the earlier concept that has a small combustion engine. Other differences are a more robust frame, possibly a battery...
Ducati CEO Claudio Domenicali has told his workers that the sale of the company by Volkswagen has now officially been...
World Exclusive! The webBikeWorld Live Report From the 2009 Powersports Dealer Expo Indianapolis, Indiana – February 13-16, 2009 Most of the exhibitors...
Italian electric motorcycle company Tacita has launched an electric cruiser. It looks a lot like a Harley-Davidson Street 500 and has a turbine sound similar to the Harley electric Livewire. The T-Cruise was launched in the USA this week and is featured in this video where you can hear its turbine...
Turban-wearing Sikhs should be exempt from wearing a helmet while riding motorcycles on streets posted up to 60km/h, say a...
Motorcycle and car fan Macklemore (Ben Taggerty) will perform a same-sex song at the NRL finals on Sunday night, prompting a...
Commuting is easier and safer in Perth than any other Australian city, while Sydney is the worst, according to a German traffic study. While lane filtering now allows riders to dodge the worst of the daily commute, riders still face commuting costs of fuel and parking, traffic crashes and road...
A former road designer says “safety has nothing to do” with reducing the speed limits and police and governments can...
Riders and their representative groups need to become political and not leave the lobbying to a few sympathetic politicians, says...
A woman charged with the murder of a motorcycle rider in a January road crash has been committed to the Supreme Court in Sydney. Tweed Heads father of three Trevor Moran, 61, died when his Harley-Davidson collided on January 6 with a white Ford Falcon station wagon driven by Vanessa...
The only good news about the economic downturn and consequent drop in motorcycle sales in Australia is that your motorcycle...
Polaris has confirmed that Indian Motorcycles and some Polaris all-terrain vehicles will be assembled in India for the domestic market....
Following the remarkable events during the San Marino Grand Prix in which Johann Zarco pushed his bike over the line in order to secure a point after running out of fuel, the Moto GP season is heating up further with just five races left to go. Spain is the next...
Custom motorcycle designer Roland Sands is enthusiastic about the future of motorcycles powered by electric motors and batteries. Despite bringing...
Unbroken white lines are appearing on more and more roads in an effort to stop motorists from overtaking, but is...
Yamaha will be able to bring new models to market faster with the selection of Siemens to provide their product lifecycle management (PLM) software. In a joint statement, the companies say they will use Siemens’ Teamcenter digital lifecycle management software and NX computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering software. They say...
webBikeWorld Live Report From The 2007 Powersports Dealer Expo Sunday, Feb. 18, 2007 – Indianapolis, Indiana: Continuing our live coverage...
As riders anxiously await a speed review of the Oxley Highway, South Australian is slashing eight major highway speeds by...
For those who believe police think there is one rule for them and another for the rest of us comes this video from India of a police motorcycle officer on a mobile phone. When the officer is confronted by the rider videoing the incident, the police officer slaps him. The...
Triumph Motorcycles has begun testing the 765cc Street Triple engine it will supply for Moto2 from 2019, after signing a...
Intrepid Queensland adventure motorcyclist Stuart Ball has crashed out of his second attempt to set a sub-70-hour west-east motorcycle crossing...
Riders should decide their own levels of safety equipment and riding gear, says Liberal Democrats Senator David Leyonhjelm A Senator since 2014, he is also an avid rider. David addressed the first anti-VLAD protest in 2013, produced this video of his party’s motorcycle issues and drafted a motorcycle policy for the...
Royal Enfield has increased its bid to buy Ducati to a reported €1.8 billion despite the Volkswagen board hung on...
Now that budget online motorcycle insurer Insure My Ride* has closed, Swann Motorcycle Insurance is ramping up its motorcycle insurance...
Adventure rider and founder of the Great Australian Ride, Stuart Ball, will attempt to set a new record for a west-to-east crossing of Australia via the Gunbarrel Highway and Simpson Desert. (UPDATE: Stuart crashed out but hopes to have a third attempt.) He left last night (September 7, 2017) and...
Italian motorcycle company Bimota has been running down for the past few years and last week there was a final...
This guy’s daughter told him that he was too old to ride anymore, so he used parts from his bikes...
Yamaha is already working on a Motobot road motorcycle that rides itself and is now developing an autonomous self-driving off-road vehicle. While most car manufacturers are developing and testing self-drive vehicles there has been limited work done on autonomous vehicles by motorcycle manufacturers. Honda and BMW have only developed self-balancing...
All states should allow people to ride a 50cc moped on a car licence to improve traffic congestion and teach...
Bridge work that closed the famous Lions Rd on the Queensland and NSW border in January will keep the popular...
Alabama motorcycle company Confederate is considering changing its now-controversial name after the recent race riots in Charlottesville, Virginia. One person was killed and 26 injured when a car has slammed into a crowd of people protesting a white nationalist rally in the town earlier this month. Now Confederate Motors president...
It seems that many learner drivers are not being told about motorcycle lane filtering, nor being quizzed about it in...
German auto electronics company Bosch has developed car sensors that will detect cyclists and will soon also detect motorcyclists who...
Small mum and dad motorcycle dealers are being squeezed out of the business by “conglomerates”, just as Bunnings did to Masters, says veteran dealer Brett Mutton of Brisbane Motorcycles. We recently published a couple of articles in which Australian Motorcycle Dealers Association boss Stuart Strickland said dealers were doing it tough. The articles met...
Motorcycle riders should be able to filtering between traffic and the kerb like cyclists, lane filtering fines should be lowered...