Motorcycles appear the preferred COVID lockdown vehicle with Australian sales booming after a slow start to the year due to with fires,...
Motorcycle sales are continuing their slide and even picking up pace with a 14.6% drop in the first quarter of...
Harley-Davidson will expand “profitable iconic heritage bikes” while committing to branching out to adventure touring, the new Streetfighter range and electric motorcycles under their new Rewire strategy. German-born interim CEO Jochen Zeitz (pictured above with an electric Harley LiveWire) has spelt out his five-year Rewire vision in his first public statement...
BMW and Ducati have announced record sales for the past six and seven years consecutively in 2016 and have set...
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 first quarter of 2017. Road bikes had been performing best of all over the past few years, but were down by 15.5% in the quarter. Off-road bikes were down 15.3%,...
Semiconductor chip shortages have affected almost every automobile and motorcycle production aspect on a global scale. With the rise of...
One of the biggest changes in Harley-Davidson‘s model line-ups seems to have reaped rewards. The American icon has posted a...
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...
Harley-Davidson overtook Honda as the top-selling road bike company in Australia in 2015, thanks largely to strong sales of the...
Motorcycle buyers are the big winners in July which is usually a hot month for winter discounts as companies scramble...
Learners, cruiser riders, adventurers and returned riders have helped lift sales of road motorcycles in Australia by 1.5% to 44,530 last year. Despite ATV sales also up 2% to 21,723, total sales of motorcycles, scooters and ATVs were down 2.2% to 111,599 last year. The market was held back by...
Ducati Australia has recorded the biggest rise in sales for the company worldwide in 2021 with a 50% increase. Ducati...
Ducati has recorded its eighth consecutive sales record year, but the growth rate is slowing alarmingly and the brand is...
BMW Motorrad in Australia is offering free on-road costs and accessories on selected 2015 models to clear stock, even though the company has recorded its fifth consecutive sales record. Example of their deals are the R nineT which now comes with a free custom rider seat and tail hump cover,...
You may have heard of buyer’s regret, but there is also seller’s regret and many riders suffer from this more...
Honda’s postie bike and its range of 500cc learner bikes led a small surge in road motorcycle sales in the first...
The global motorcycle sales slump has forced Harley-Davidson to close one factory, while Royal Enfield sales cool and Indian Motorcycle sales boom. Harley will close their Kansas City plant which makes Softail, Sportster and Street models and move operations to their York, Pennsylvania, factory which assembles Touring, CVO and Trike models and...
Honda Australia has started the expected January sales rush after the motorcycle market recorded a dismal sales result in 2017....
Triumph Motorcycles has ridden a wave of interest in retro motorcycles to post a 22% increase in revenue and 12.7%...
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...
Have you ever seen ads for motorcycles that say something like “hurry now, this deal is for a strictly limited...
Suzuki now has stock of the 2017 DR650SE in black with flashes of “electric blue” at $8990 with a free...
January’s fires, followed by floods and concerns about coronavirus have wreaked havoc on new car and motorcycle sales in Australia. The Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) last week announced that new car sales were down -12.5% (71,731 vehicles) compared with January 2019, which was the worst sales-year since 2011....
Honda has fired the starting gun on the annual January motorcycle sales war with discounts across its road bike range...
Heavy motorcycles gained weight in the market last year with Harley-Davidson recording 4.4% global sales growth and Polaris – maker...
The motorcycle sales boom that happened in the wake of the first pandemic lockdown appears to be over. Sales of motorcycles, scooters and ATVs in Australia dropped by more than 10% in the first quarter. While there are no reasons given, it could be a combination of the threat of...
BMW Motorrad Australia has increased its warranty to three years on all new bikes and now offers discount package service...
Australian motorcycle and off-highway vehicle (OHV) sales have increase 51% in the first quarter over the same period last year....
Suzuki Motorcycles Australia has taken a red pen to the prices on several models with the learner-approved Inazuma 250 now costing just $4990 rideaway with on-road costs thrown in. CHECK OUT MY INAZUMA REVIEW HERE Suzuki is also throwing in free on-road costs on the Hayabusa ($19,290) and GSX sports...
The recent announcement that Victory Motorcycles is ceasing production seems to have started a rush on sales of the bikes in...
New models such as the Harley-Davidson Street 500, Ducati Scrambler and Indian Scout are driving a steady increase in road...
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...
A continuing downturn in motorcycle sales, as well as car sales, in the first half of the year has been...
Mr. Hammond is in the process of letting go some of his classics in lieu of a better handle on...
A rider who vented his spleen with a vitriolic but humorous ad for his 2016 Triumph Thruxton R reached a substantial bid of $19,700 on eBay. The owner, who says he wishes to remain anonymous, placed the humorous ad after snapping a gear lever bolt on his three-month-old bike after 1700km. His...
Electric bicycles in the snow, bikes made in Thailand and Europe, lower prices, higher costs, tariff wars and removable batteries...
Sales of road bikes rose 4.4% in the first half of the year, one of the biggest increases since the...
As March is the end of the Japanese fiscal year, we can expect discounts from the four Japanese motorcycle companies, starting with Suzuki’s finance 0% offers. Their Finance’s 0%pa comparison rate finance deal is available on a big selection of motorcycles including models from Suzuki’s learner approved, V-Strom adventure touring, classically...
Australian motorcycle, ATV and scooter sales have been in a continual slump since the start of 2017 with sales up...