BMW R1100RT-P Recall NOTE: These recalls are presented as a public safety resource. For more information, visit your local BMW Motorcycle...
BMW R1200C Recall NOTE: These recalls are presented as a public safety resource. For more information, visit your local BMW Motorcycle...
BMW K1200RS Recall NOTE: These recalls are presented as a public safety resource. For more information, visit your local BMW Motorcycle dealer or visit the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration website. Make : BMW Models : K1200RS Years: 1998-2000 NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID Number : 00V264000 Recall Date : SEP 08, 2000 Component: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE Potential...
BMW F650GS Dakar Recall NOTE: These recalls are presented as a public safety resource. For more information, visit your local BMW...
BMW R850R Recall – BMW R1100R Recall NOTE: These recalls are presented as a public safety resource. For more information, visit...
BMW Announces Motorcycle Automatic Stability Control System BMW has announced the availability of their first motorcycle “stability control” (looks like traction control to us) system for street bikes. The system uses the BMW Motorrad Integral ABS system and advances it from a stand-alone solution acting only on the brakes into...
BMW S 1000 RR SuperSports Street Motorcycle Part 4: Electrics, Body, Colors, Accessories and Specifications BMW S1000RR SuperSports Street Bike...
BMW S 1000 RR SuperSports Street Motorcycle – Part 3: Suspension BMW S1000RR SuperSports Street Bike Report: Part 1 Overall Concept...
BMW S 1000 RR SuperSports Street Motorcycle – Part 2: Drivetrain BMW S1000RR SuperSports Street Bike Report: Part 1 Overall Concept and Features Part 2 Drivetrain Part 3 Suspension and Running Gear Part 4 Page 4 Includes: 1. Electric and Electronics 2. Body and Design 3. Range of Equipment 4....
BMW has been busy this year! They have also just announced the K 1200 GT, a sport-touring version of theK...
Integral ABS and ASC (Automatic Stability Control): New Riding Dynamic Control Systems for BMW Motorcycles Editor’s Note: BMW usually provides tons of technical detail on their motorcycles and accessories, and the following information is a lightly edited translation of a large document provided by the BMW press office. Since webBikeWorld...
The 100,000th BMW R 1200 GS Dual Sport! On This Page: Summary of changes BMW press release Detailed technical analysis...
BMW Celebrates 25 Years of the BMW GS It was an inspired concept, and BMW is still capitalizing on it...
wBW Vintage Motorcycle News Archive This is the archive of older wBW Vintage, Classic and Antique Motorcycles articles that are still available on the site. Here’s the wBW Vintage, Classic and Antique Motorcycles home page. Thread repair with an old-fashioned thread file! Royal Enfield “Custovation” 1974 Ducati 750 GT “Bevel Head” restoration; story, photos...
The 8th Annual webBikeWorld.com Motorcycle Product of the Year Awards! Happy 2013! January 1, 2013 – Best wishes to all of our...
20,000 Mile Warranty for RK GXW Series Chains October, 2011 (The Editor) – We receive many press releases about new products,...
wBW 2007 Motorcycle Product of the Year Awards It’s so hard to believe 2006 is here – I still can’t get over it. Last year we named the Shark RSR as the webBikeWorld “Helmet of the Year”. It was a spur-of-the-moment, arbitrary decision based on our opinion of that product. But the...
New Road and Hazard Design Study Released; Includes Worksheets for Road Safety Audits The Association des Constructeurs Européens de Motocycles...
Online Motorcycle Magazines – Websites More: Our favorite print motorcycle magazines webBikeWorld Description: Motorcycles, motorcycle accessories, motorcycle helmets, clothing, news, maintenance articles,...
Ducati GT1000 Blog – Page 2 (Older Entries) The entries below are from the original page of the GT1000 Blog and it includes email from GT owners. If you have any tips on parts or accessories for the GT or any of the SportClassics, please feel free to drop me...
Bell Sprint and Arai Quantum II Helmet Noise Levels Other WebBikeWorld Helmet Posts...
Joe Rocket Steel Jeans vs. Sliders Kevlar Jeans webBikeWorld visitors apparently can’t get enough information on motorcycle jeans! Based on...
DesignTech 50 Watt Halogen 1156 Brake Light Bulb I blow through a lot of money on webBikeWorld reviews! Here we go with brake lights again…. Maybe I have a fixation. I’m looking for thHalogen Brakee perfect brake light: low watts, low heat, lasts forever with no damage from vibration, lights up...
1157 and 1156 Motorcycle Light Bulbs There are several motorcycle tail light and brake light bulb types which are interchangeable....
LED Light for Motorcycles EDs are just about the perfect motorcycle lighting solution. LED lights use very little power, they’re...
Installing a Signal Dynamics LED Brake Light Bar: Triumph Thunderbird Sport Information about the Signal Dynamics LED Brake Light Bar was covered in a previous webBikeWorld article “Improving Brake Light Visibility on a BMW K75“. This article addresses the installation of that same unit on a Triumph Thunderbird Sport. There were...
The Signal Dynamics LED Motorcycle Brake Light Bar Improving the brake light visibility of motorcycle brake lights is important. I...
Motorcycle LED Brake Light Replacement In my never-ending search for perfect motorcycle visibility, I happened to come across the website...
Motorcycle Fork Oil Change I had some problems with my Triumph Thunderbird Sport motorcycle front suspension. These problems are described in “Part I” of this saga: “Motorcycle Front Tire Change – Triumph Thunderbird Sport“. To recap, I noticed that the front end of the motorcycle had a repetitive bouncing motion that...
TBS Oil Change Notes I’ve changed the oil in may motorcycles, but the first oil change in the Triumph Thunderbird...
Lazer Helmets SuperSkin Helmet Technology New Technology Proven to Reduce Motorcycle Helmet Rotational Acceleration by More Than 50% During a...
The Sena SMH-10: A Rider-to-Passenger Intercom Just to spice things up a bit, I added some photos of the Sena SMH10R, the newest Sena intercom that trades the “Jog Dial” for a new low-profile shape. We’ll have a review coming soon. A Long-Distance Trip I wrote two previous reviews of...
Motorcycle Tire Speed Ratings, Load Ratings and Tire Size Designations Front Tire Size Conversions Rear Tire Size Conversions Metric Alpha...
Adventures in Motorcycle Wheel Re-Spoking With a Suzuki DRZ400S This is not intended as a complete “how to” article on...
New Wheels, Just Like Magic Rebuilding spoke wheels is one of the rights of passage in the “custovation”* of an old bike. That convoluted three-dimensional puzzle with an alloy hub at the center of a spider web of steel, wrapped in a rubber donut, is not as intimidating as some...
California Earplug Law UPDATE: California has recently passed a bill (SB 315 from the 2004 session) to amend Vehicle Code Section 27400. ...
MotoMedic Medical ID Card I’ve only fallen once in all the years that I’ve been riding motorcycles, and that was...
by Duke Video Running Time: 73 minutes, plus extras. I have no idea how to describe The Purple Helmets. How about “Monty Python’s frat-boy nephews meet Benny Hill”? Or “Harold Lloyd meets the Monkees”? If you’ve ever watched any coverage of the Isle of Man TT, you’ve probably seen those wacko...
Caberg always has some interesting helmets, like theCaberg Sintesi we reviewed in 2010. UPDATE 2: The webBikeWorld Caberg Ego review is now available! UPDATE: Caberg...