The Veterans Charity Ride (VCR) has just acquired its usual trusty sponsor for 2022 – and Indian Motorcycle® is more...
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Amanda Quick spends her time managing her business, digging into old bike manuals and prepping for Canada's warmer seasons. Her love for bikes has her head stuck in the more futuristic predictions of the Powersports industry, seconded only by her love for cello and obsession with effective communications.
Articulate nerd with a terrible sleep schedule and a dotty love for horsepower.
Back on May 24th, we received news that Harley-Davidson was shutting down their five global plant locations due to a...
In an interesting twist of events, Harley-Davidson has just released to the Milwaukee Business Journal (or Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) that the company’s factory freeze is lifting in three short days. The brand’s production freeze on May 24th was purportedly due to an unknown ‘regulatory compliance matter’ that spanned Harley’s entire...
In a stunning story recorded by MCN, a group of UK-based Harley-Davidson riders (and a few other chapters) are bringing...
Aprilia’s MotoGP team has been kicking serious butt this past weekend. A recent press release from Aprilia states the weekend’s antics...
Indian Motorcycle® has just announced its proud support of veterans around the country by once again stepping in as the sponsor for the veteran-centered, non-profit organization known as Veterans Charity Ride (VCR). This is a stupendous step, especially since the sponsorship in question will cover the use of motorcycles to...
With May behind us and June officially in full swing, fathers around the country are demurely awaiting their moment to...
Cardo Systems is advancing its growth by partnering up with a Canadian supplier! A recent press release states that Cardo’s...
May might have just finished, but the importance of motorcycle safety ain’t (thank heck) – and despite Motorcycle Safety Awareness month now being behind us, we’re going into a season notorious for heatwaves…and jerks who think they can make that pass. While sunny scoots may be welcome after such a...
The Isle of Man Tourist Trophy. A spiffy 37 ¾ miles per lap, with the event’s iconic superbike race having claimed...
Energica’s done it again. On top of phasing out of MotoE to pursue greater heights of electric success, the Italian...
Here at wBW, we don’t play favorites – at least, not unless it’s a day where the bike build is particularly kickass. Today is one of those days. Everybody, meet the ‘Pegasus l’Étalon Noir’ (Pegasus The Black Stallion) – a stupidly spiffy machine based on the Royal Enfield Continental GT...
Energica has just branched off from their award-winning supersport genre and given us their very new, very sexy, very electric...
BMW’s already prepping for their big centennial celebrations; 100 years of iconic BMW history, and along with the festivities come...
Looking for a Father’s Day gift but not sure where to start? You’re in luck – with June 19 around the corner, Cardo’s range of communications systems are up for grabs just in time to gift Daddy-oh with the best of the best. Naturally, we’ve assembled the lineup below for...
Who wears aviators, races fighter jets on a carbon piece of bonkers, and is partially responsible for banking an eye-popping...
Fancy a new Katoom? How about a refreshed rally variant for our existing 390 lineup? Apparently the Austrians are hard...
BMW has just created a new assemblage of accessories to complement the original Black Collection, with tank bags, backpacks and side/rear bags to spare. Let’s get into it. The BMW Urban Collection, according to BMW’s press release on Cycle News, is “made of high-quality and easy-care materials (outer material 100%...
Continental has had to take a bit of a step back with this one. Just a few days ago, the...
KTM’s World Adventure Week (WAW)is just around the corner, with the challenge of riding 1,000km in a single week. The...
I don’t know what stands out more: The fact that Harley’s approaching their future with a pincer move and getting their hands dirty on both high-cc AND low-cc machines for today’s electric community, or the fact that their newest Serial 1 bicycle brainchild – a machine called the Bash/MTN – is...
A design concept for a luxury superjet has just chosen the iconic Brabus 1300R as the unit of choice to...
Back in mid-March, Harley’s new LiveWire brainchild – a middleweight Street Tracker going by the name ‘Del Mar’ – was...
It appears that Harley-Davidson’s most recent electric brainchild is fulfilling a niche demand for luxury, middleweight machines. The fact that the LiveWire Del Mar was able to sell out of their 100-unit Launch Edition batch in under 19 minutes still boggles the mind – especially since these particular MSRP $17,699...
Well this is a bit of a left-field move. Yamaha‘s apparently working on an XSR900 that will be accessible to...
A European press release from Italy is talking about Yamaha’s recent move to make their popular XSR900 A2-compliant, in an...
When Renaissance man Wayne Buys finished a custom creation from a BMW R1200R under the FabMan Creations brand, there was more than the finished product to stare at. After all, Buys had just succeeded in rendering an immaculately clean bike from scratch – no sketches or renderings, all free-form –...
Recently, Ducati partnered with Italian luxury brand Bulgari to bring about a Special Edition $5,000 USD, Chronograph set to play...
Harley’s just let us know that they’ll be stopping production of their bikes due to a decision concerning ‘regulatory compliance...
Ducati has partnered with Bulgari for the coolest matte / aluminum chronograph on the ticker market. The goal of both parties, apparently, is to “revolutionize the standards of luxury sports watches” – it’s a hefty goal, but c’mon – you have to admit there’s worse ways of going about raising...
When Suzuki took the world by surprise and released a statement saying they were leaving MotoGP (taking their contractor, Dorna...
When Ducati’s new Streetfighter V2 was debuted as a part of the 2022 Ducati World Premiere, many were jazzed to...
Ducati has a moto-inspired ticker from a collaboration with Bulgari that seeks to ‘revolutionize the standards of luxury sports watches’ – and it’s currently being touted as ‘The Best Bulgari Watch in History.’ Celebrating the partnership between the jewelry Maison and the iconic Italian motorcycle manufacturer, the Bulgari Aluminum Ducati...
Thanks to a set of recent VIN decoder filings, Zero’s electric adventure motorcycle seems that much closer to a debut...
Husqvarna’s just released their 2023 iteration of motocross machines to the motorcycle community – and the big refresh boasts every...
Rumors have been flying for about a year now on the possibility of middleweight machines for KTM. Currently, KTM’s naked, sport and adventure-touring lineups feature bikes with power displacements of either 150/200/390, or 790/890 and up. Between 390 and 790 is a whole lot of room for SOME kind of...
If you’re anywhere near Iowa, you’ll be glad to hear that Spirit Lake Indian’s factory tours are slotted to resume...
The Quail Gathering is, in a word, the penultimate icon of the motorcycle community. Being a Concours d’Elegance motorcycle rally,...
Despite the economy of the millennium’s second decade, Brembo’s been jumping from strength to strength. From acquiring smaller brake brands in an effort to provide the best quality units to their clients, to creating new brake concepts for the motorcycle community, crushing their sales figures for the year, providing programs...
Amidst the fun of today’s rapidly-adapting motorcycle industry comes a new thought from the shop of the Bavarians: What if...