Have you ever wondered why motorcycle pricing varies across the country? Some are advertised as the ride-away price and others...
Australian motorcycle sales have hit their first downturn in several years with a massive 13.4% decline to 21,794 in the...
Motorcycle sales might be in a two-year slump in Australia, but there is no cause for general panic about the global motorcycle industry just yet. (By the way, the top photo is from the fictional film “The Last Motorcycle on Earth“, and is not cause for panic! Watch the movie...
Triumph Motorcycles and Ducati have followed Suzuki with August incentives to kick-start the second half of the year’s motorcycle sales. Triumph is...
Kawasaki is currently doing a great deal that makes the versatile go-anywhere 2017 KLR650 adventurer even more attractive. Buy the...
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,...
BMW Motorrad Australia has increased its warranty to three years on all new bikes and now offers discount package service...
Winter put a dampener on road bike and cruiser sales which had been scorching hot at the start of the...
BMW Motorrad has defied the global slide in motorcycle sales with its seventh record year of sales, up 13.2%. As of June 2017 a total of 164,153 vehicles were supplied to customers, compared with 145,032 in 2016. BMW Motorrad sales and marketing boss Timo Resch says the 2018 launch of the new...
(This is my 100th post!) Victory Motorcycles is celebrating its 15th birthday and you get the presents. The deals are...
Anecdotal evidence and reports from around the world suggest that the motorcycle market might be surprisingly defying the COVID-19 crisis...
Royal Enfield Australia is making a offer of a free sports exhaust on their best-selling Continental GT. The offer on the Continental GT for $9590 in red, yellow or black runs until January 31, 2016. The sports exhaust is made by Royal Enfield, it’s worth $250 and is described as...
President Donald Trump’s trade wars are hitting Harley-Davidson hard with a 22% bite in profits to $US426m after a 8.4%...
BMW Motorrad Australia has joined the winter discount boom throwing in a free Navigator V GPS worth $1200 with their tourers...
Electric bicycles in the snow, bikes made in Thailand and Europe, lower prices, higher costs, tariff wars and removable batteries are all part of the Harley-Davidson and Polaris 2018 sales and revenue results. Snow business Harley-Davidson spent the weekend showing off its new electric bicycle and scooter to young thrill-seekers...
Australian motorcycle and OHV (Off Highway Vehicle) sales for the first nine months of this year have increased 8.3% over...
While many riders stretch their finances just to buy a motorcycle and then can’t afford to buy decent safety gear,...
Honda Australia is promoting its automatic Dual-Clutch Transmission on the new Africa Twin adventure bike by offering the upgrade for free. Apart from scooters, there are few bikes that have a clutchless shift transmission, although many hi-tech sports bikes now have a quick shifter that allows shifts without using the...
In a bold move to get more riders on motorcycles, TeamMoto has offered free motorcycle licence training if you buy...
Motorcycles appear the preferred COVID lockdown vehicle with Australian sales booming after a slow start to the year due to with fires,...
Motorcycle sales in the first quarter of this year were understandably down, but only by 2.5% compared with countries such as Italy which is down 65% due to the coronavirus. Meanwhile, the Australian market has also had to deal with drought, bushfires and floods over the same period. Federal Chamber...
A rider who vented his spleen with a vitriolic but humorous ad for his 2016 Triumph Thruxton R reached a substantial...
Despite KTM Group’s boss saying sales were up during the pandemic, the Austrian company has suffered a one-third sales slump...
BMW Motorrad has posted its ninth consecutive record year with global sales of 175,162 motorcycles and maxi-scooters, a 5.8% increase over 2018. That’s impressive, given many markets were down and Europe was only slightly up, yet BMW recorded 7% growth in Europe. However, in Australia, BMW sold 2675 motorcycles and...
Honda, Indian and Victory are the first to offer discounts in the usual round of winter deals to heat up sales...
Have you ever seen ads for motorcycles that say something like “hurry now, this deal is for a strictly limited...
Will online swapping make motorcycle parts swap meets a thing of the past and will riders choose to swap their bikes online rather than sell them and buy a new bike? At least one online start-up hopes the future will move toward online swapping just as our habits are shifting...
While BMW Motorrad set a record sales year in 2021 with a massive 14.8% increase, Australia’s performance was up only...
Honda Australia has started the expected January sales rush after the motorcycle market recorded a dismal sales result in 2017....
Harley-Davidson overtook Honda as the top-selling road bike company in Australia in 2015, thanks largely to strong sales of the new learner-approved Street 500, according to the latest Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries figures. Road bike sales were strong, increasing 2.6% compared with 2014 and accounting for 41.4% of the...
BMW Motorrad is offering free on-road-cost discounts on selected models as sales soar 150%, according to marketing manager Miles Davis....
The motorcycle sales boom that happened in the wake of the first pandemic lockdown appears to be over. Sales of...
Suzuki Australia is offering free on-road costs on their GSX-S1000 streetfighter saving riders $1200 from March 2019. The bike was updated for last year’s model with more power, torque and control, plus some cosmetic updates. It cost $16,690 ride away, but it is now being offered at $15,490 ride away in...
Honda has been one of the most aggressive in discount offers this year in an effort to return to the...
You may have heard of buyer’s regret, but there is also seller’s regret and many riders suffer from this more...
January is a great time to buy a new motorcycle as companies try a raft of incentives to shift stock not sold over the Christmas period and make way for new models. Suzuki was the first to offer discounts in the form of free on-road costs on all Hayabusa and...
As March is the end of the Japanese fiscal year, we can expect discounts from the four Japanese motorcycle companies, starting...
Harley-Davidson revenue has dropped 14% in the first quarter as a Bollywood actor has called for the company to be banned...
KTM and, to a lesser extent Husqvarna, have defied the Australian road bike sales slump of -11.9% last year, according to official statistics from the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries released today. Whatever KTM is doing, it seems to be working because the company, together with its acquisition Husqvarna, is also defying...
Suzuki is offering discounts, free on-road costs and even fuel vouchers to move some of its stock of learner bikes,...