Aldi’s annual motorcycle gear sale next weekend (August 18, 2018) claims accredited safety gear, the first leather jacket for women...
Electric bicycles in the snow, bikes made in Thailand and Europe, lower prices, higher costs, tariff wars and removable batteries...
Honda and Suzuki are offering hot winter deals to stimulate flagging sales of their sportsbike ranges, including the Suzuki GSX-R1000 at its lowest price yet. The deals not only indicate that sales in the first half of the year were not up to expectation, but also that sportsbike sales have hit...
BMW is forging ahead with sales this year already surpassing last year’s total, assembly of motorcycles beginning in Thailand and...
Have you ever seen ads for motorcycles that say something like “hurry now, this deal is for a strictly limited...
On the heels of Yamaha’s sales successes comes Big Red, happy as a clam with profit up +77% for Q2 of this FY2023. According to MBT, Q1 of Honda’s fiscal year saw ¥363 billion ($2.5 billion USD) in profit, with sales upping to ¥4.6 trillion ($32 billion USD). The healthy +21%...
Shares in Australia’s biggest motorcycle dealership conglomerate, MotorCycle Holdings, reports increase revenue and bike sales, yet shares have dropped 13.7%...
Honda has been one of the most aggressive in discount offers this year in an effort to return to the...
Anecdotal evidence and reports from around the world suggest that the motorcycle market might be surprisingly defying the COVID-19 crisis with increasing sales. Dealers tell us that after the lockdown started to ease, sales have increased substantially, especially among premium motorcycles. One dealer told me he believed customers had adopted...
Suzuki Motorcycles Australia has taken a red pen to the prices on several models with the learner-approved Inazuma 250 now...
The best cure for the coronavirus seems to be hopping on a motorcycle and hitting the starter button. Despite early...
The Harley-Davidson Breakout has claimed the top-selling spot for the first time as the Australian motorcycle industry continues its first prolonged slump since the GFC. Usually the top-selling bike in Australia is a postie bike, peewee, trail bike or cheap learner, not a large motorcycle costing more than $30,000. However,...
If you are in the market for an American cruiser or tourer, now is the time to buy with a...
Honda has embarked on a discount war over the past year in an effort to return to the top of the road...
Prepare for an invasion of riders on our roads as motorcycle sales skyrocket, says international market researcher Global Industry Analysts (GIA). Despite the effects of the GFC on motorcycle sales in the past five years, GIA’s latest report says sales of motorcycles, scooters and mopeds will reach 80.8 million units...
Australian motorcycle sales have hit their first downturn in several years with a massive 13.4% decline to 21,794 in the...
Desperate times require desperate measures and MV Agusta Australia has just launched a “5-Day Flash Sale” with discounts up to...
While many riders stretch their finances just to buy a motorcycle and then can’t afford to buy decent safety gear, Harley-Davidson has a solution. HD Australia products manager Sébastien Bureau says they are offering customers finance deals that include up to 10% of the price of the bike to be...
Suzuki now has stock of the 2017 DR650SE in black with flashes of “electric blue” at $8990 with a free...
Financial analysts say the new VW boss is a bean counter who could put Ducati up for sale again to...
Triumph Motorcycles has ridden a wave of interest in retro motorcycles to post a 22% increase in revenue and 12.7% increase in sales in the 2016/17 financial year. The British company says their customers are typically men aged 40 and over who have spurred a 300% increase in retro models...
Motorcycle sales might be in a two-year slump in Australia, but there is no cause for general panic about the...
BMW and Ducati have announced record sales for the past six and seven years consecutively in 2016 and have set...
The Free Trade Agreement with Japan and, to a lesser extent Korea, will be a bonanza for Australian motorcycle riders. Prices of bikes, accessories and gear such as expensive Arai and Shoei helmets should come down. It should also lead to a motorcycle discount war as other manufacturers slash prices...
Indian Motorcycle Australia is offering test riders the opportunity to win a motorcycle with their 1 in 50 Competition. If...
New models such as the Harley-Davidson Street 500, Ducati Scrambler and Indian Scout are driving a steady increase in road...
Motorcycle customers are spending more time in online research for their next bike than visiting dealerships, according to an American motorcycle industry survey. We believe the same thing is happening in Australia where dealers tell us customers are often arriving at their stores with more information than the salesperson. The 11th...
BMW Motorrad is on a high, setting a new speed record at Bonneville and new records with sales. Seven-time motorcycle...
Powersports manufacturer Polaris has called for an independent audit of ATV, motorcycle and scooter sales so consumers have a more...
A continuing downturn in motorcycle sales, as well as car sales, in the first half of the year has been blamed on the Federal election, floods, drought and tight financial lending. There is little relief from the bleak news with road bike sales suffering the biggest loss of -17.7% as...
Motorcycle sales continued to tumble in the first half of this year, down 5.9% on the first half of 2017...
Suzuki Australia has announced their six-day sale which kicked off on March 11, 2017, will be extended another six days....
Australian riders can celebrate American Independence Day with a sale of Victory and Indian bikes and gear starting today (Saturday, July 1) until July 7, 2017. The four Polaris-owned stores in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth will host free barbecues today along with a stack of special discounts on Indian and...
Australia has a dose of the motorcycle blues with Yamaha claiming the top sales spot in August in motorcycles, dirt...
Motorcycle sales have exploded in June due to the easing of pandemic restrictions, end-of-financial-year sales and access to superannuation. Sales...
Australian motorcycle sales took another 8.1% dive in the third quarter which contributes to a 33-month downturn in the industry. By comparison, car sales are down 7.9% last month which is the 18th month in a row of decline, according to official data released by the Federal Chamber of Automotive...
Suzuki Australia is doing a ride-away deal on the 2019 Boulevard M109R which now comes in two new colour schemes...
The motorcycle sales boom that happened in the wake of the first pandemic lockdown appears to be over. Sales of...
Ducati will add another Scrambler model to its fleet “in the coming months”, either an 803cc street motard or an 1100cc desert-racing Dakar model. The vague announcement came in the company’s annual report on 2019 global sales which were fairly flat at 53,183, just 179 more than 2018. There was...
Is it any wonder motorcycles are experiencing the biggest growth of any automotive sector when four-wheelers are becoming such a...