BMW Australia has issued a safety recall for their 2018-2020 K1600 over an issue which could cause the back end...
BMW has eased the minds of many riders with their announcement today that from February 1, BMW genuine Akrapovic silencers...
Video evidence has been provided to Wollongong police of a ute doing a three-point turn and knocking over a parked Triumph Thunderbird LT motorcycle before doing a runner. Unfortunately for the driver, it was right outside City Coast Motorcycles and was caught on video. We cannot make out the number plate,...
Motorcycle and OHV (Off Highway Vehicle) rose 5.7% in the first half of this year compared with the same period...
Danish motorcycle company Lauge Jensen conscripted a famed BMW and Aston Martin car designer to help develop its Viking Concept...
The wild and crazy life of two-time world champion motorcycle racer Barry Sheene is being developed into a feature-length film by a joint British-Australian film production. Simply titled “Sheene” it should be a funny, dramatic and exciting film depicting the funny, dramatic and exciting life of the racer. Even...
Bikes from the golden era of British motorcycling will be up for auction next month at the Bonhams Motorcycles Winter...
BMW Motorrad looks like it may go ahead and produce an electric motorcycle that looks like a traditional Boxer-powered bike. In...
Honda Motorcycles will reveal a new “concept motorcycle model” at the Osaka Motorcycle Show on Friday (March 21). No word on what it is except that it will come in two model variants. It will be part of a “We Love Bikes” model blitz with 24 Honda motorcycles on show....
Ripple strips on double white lines and edge lines on two sections of the Oxley Highway have been challenged by...
An app that helps you find motorcycle parking has now been extended to Android phones. The MCNetwork directory of parking...
If riders want to adopt the coming era of electric motorcycles they will have to develop a totally different mindset to how they ride and refuel. Recent developments show electric motorcycles are coming … and coming fast! In fact, there is even an electric MotoGP series coming next year. Harley-Davidson...
Honda, Indian and Victory are the first to offer discounts in the usual round of winter deals to heat up sales...
A Victorian Magistrate has upheld a $150 fine against a motorcycle rider for wearing a helmet camera, finding that the...
Almost 20 months after a NSW police officer was charged with throwing an object at a rider who then crashed, the court matter has been adjourned once again after a three-day hearing. A video of the incident shows Senior Constable Brett Rossiter performing random breath tests on Hannahs Road at Narwee on Friday...
Rain delayed the start of the Dakar Rally today, washed away some Aussie hopes and dampened the Frenchman Cyril Despres’...
Three-time World Superbike Champion Troy Bayliss will pass on his expert advice to young racers at the second annual Big...
Cyclists have special lanes, so why not motorcycles? It’s not our suggestion, but one of many suggested action plans in a World Health Organisation report about motorcycle safety. The WHO’s “Powered two- and three-wheeler safety” report is part of the 2010 United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety and...
Motor vehicle theft in Australia increased by 3% in the past year, largely due to a 9% rise in motorcycle theft. Motorcycle theft...
If you think the cops are tough on noisy aftermarket exhausts here, try India where they hammer them flat by...
French-born Bertrand Cadart, 71, the scooter-riding Mayor who played Clunk in the first Mad Max movie and registered the first motorcycle-friendly municipality in Australia has sadly died in Queensland after a long fight with cancer. Peter “The Bear” Thoeming wrote this article for us in May 2018 after he handed over...
Motorcyclist and road safety researcher Ross Blackman (pictured) has waded into our debate last week about whether roadworks speed limits...
Returned rider Alan Maxwell has a familiar history with motorcycles, but has ended up triking with a family of trikes...
Special off-road two-wheel-drive Rokon motorcycles are being used in the fight against ebola in West Africa. The Rokon Scout motorcycles are made in Rochester, New York, and feature two-wheel drive, fat knobby tyres, high ground clearance and have substantial cargo capacity, including a special rear cooler to protect blood samples....
Motorcycle tracks have been closing down around suburban areas for years, but one motorsport precinct near Ipswich is not only...
Today (May 26, 2018) marks the fifth anniversary of your free and independent motorcycle news service, Motorbike Writer. To those...
Ducati Australia has recalled 183 1199 and 1299 Panigale models over a potential oil leak problem. The official notice issued through the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says the engine oil breather system may operate incorrectly “possibly resulting in an oil leak from the air intake breather tube”. “Oil may...
Harley’s Making Moves Harley-Davidson is going through some serious restructuring, and the company has had to make plenty of tough...
After the hullabaloo with Klim’s airbag vest, you’d think that the consensus surrounding motorist airbag systems would remain controversial. The...
While many riders hate covert speed cameras that are turning us into a nation of speedo gazers, they should welcome more red light traffic cameras. Lane filtering now puts us at the front of the traffic light queue, so when the light changes to green we have a duty to...
The famous Fonzie Triumph motorcycle is now up for sale on eBay after being passed in at auction in the United States...
A young British woman who fell from her motorcycle after a farmer left mud on the road has been awarded...
Four years after melting tar on the Mt Glorious Rd west of Brisbane in 2017 resulted in at least one rider crashing and after recent multi-million-dollar roadworks, the issue of melting tar is back again on the popular motorcyclist road. The Motorcycle Advocacy Group Facebook page is warning riders to take...
Organisers of the inaugural Distinguished Gentlemen’s Ride at Noosa on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland expected 12 riders, but ended up with almost...
Brisbane-based French chef Michel Bonet has spent a lifetime cooking as well as cooking up some interesting custom motorcycles including...
Brisbane motorcycle industry luminaries Dale Schmidtchen and Bruce Hartwig celebrated Anzac Day today along with other Aussies on a ride to the famous River Kwai and Hellfire Pass in Thailand. Dale said he decided to visit the World War II historic sights after read a first-hand account of the horror...
For the past three decades years, Barbara Maggs and partner Tony Jenner have organised the Cranbourne Ulysses Motorcycle Club Christmas...
Built on the Vespa Elettrica Platform? Piaggio Group owns a whole lot of companies, and electrification is certainly on the...
When you have your motorcycle flowing over a series of sweeping bends on your favourite stretch of road, it’s like poetry in motion. For young Melbourne poet, Michelle Noonan, motorcycles are simply poetry. She has been riding since she was two, saw Wayne Gardner race in the Phillip Island GP,...
Hiring motorcycles could be the future for the industry as BMW plans to launch a sharing system and American company...