BMW Motorrad has posted its ninth consecutive record year with global sales of 175,162 motorcycles and maxi-scooters, a 5.8% increase...
Ducati will add another Scrambler model to its fleet “in the coming months”, either an 803cc street motard or an...
(Contributed post) Sports and other outdoor riding activities are so much fun when you’re driving the right wheels. Be it a motorbike or a UTV, both can cater to outdoor driving sports. A motorbike is interchangeable with the term motorcycle, a more formal term. Conversely, the term motorbike is used...
Aussie Toby Price has whittled a little off the lead of American Ricky Brabec with a strong second place in the...
(Contributed post on legal advice for our North American readers) Most of the time motorbike riders have no need to...
When you think of motorcycle films, many riders would mention Steve McQueen or Marlon Brando, but American freelance writer Joe Zimmerman says the real “king of biker films” is actor William Smith, now aged 86. He has prepared this article for us featuring portions from his 168-page upcoming biography, The Words and...
Teaching children how to ride a bicycle is the solution for ensuring the future of motorcycling, according to American motorcycle...
The Australian distributor for Ventz, the ingenious device that sends cooling air up your motorcycle jacket sleeves, is seeking a...
Aussie Toby Price and two other riders stopped to help fallen rider Paulo Goncalves (pictured above) yesterday (12 January 2020) in the Dakar Rally. They came across the Portuguese rider at the 276km mark of the epic 546 stage. Paulo was unconscious and Toby and some other riders stayed with him until the...
Like many Aussie sports stars and celebrities, Aussie MotoGP racer Jack Miller and our two-time Dakar rally winner Toby Price are raising...
A 35-year-old British rider who survived a horrifying head-on collision has credited his airbag-equipped full leather suit as a lifesaver....
Indian Motorcycle Australia will close its company-owned stores in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth and move to a system of privately owned dealerships. Changes will occur gradually throughout the year with their stores closing as alternative dealerships can be found. Existing customers will be notified. They say it will increase...
Aussie Toby Price lost 16 valuable minutes when his rear tyre came off in the sand dunes on stage six of the first Dakar...
A rider, aged 35, spent a harrowing few seconds stuck to the tray of a hit-run ute driver this morning...
Norton Motorcycles was fighting in the Insolvency and Companies Court in London this week (8 January 2020) to avoid a winding-up petition over £300,000 (about $A570k) in taxes owed to HM Revenue & Customs. Owner Stuart Garner says some of the money is covered by outstanding research and development tax relief owed to the...
After leading on the first day and dropping back to ninth, Aussie Toby Price has scored his second stage win in the Dakar Rally and...
NSW and Western Australia remain the only two states to not yet implement new Australian Road Rules that would provide harmony across...
Critics have been lining up to foretell doom for Harley-Davidson for both being out of date with their pushrod ploughs yet too advanced with their expensive new electric bike. But long-time Harley-Davidson expert Phil Heath (career bio at the end of the article) reckons the doom sayers have got it wrong...
Former volunteer firefighter John England is selling his collection of Aussie motorcycle racing memorabilia and donating a portion to aid...
(Contributed post for our North American readers) If you’re an avid rider, you understand the sense of freedom and endless...
The Honda factory team is shaping to be the biggest threat to Aussie Toby Price scoring his third Dakar Rally win and the 19th consecutive victory for KTM. Honda has the top three outright positions after yesterday’s 453km stage four of the rally in Saudi Arabia with Toby biding his time in fourth place...
A male rider has died in a crash with a pole after NSW police abandoned a pursuit in Newcastle overnight...
KTM and, to a lesser extent Husqvarna, have defied the Australian road bike sales slump of -11.9% last year, according...
Apart from riders being aware of rapidly changing bushfire conditions, we have also been warned about slippery fire retardant on roads and falling debris in ravaged areas. A social media alert to riders from Sydney truck driver William Moncrieff carrying fire retardant to rural fire brigades says the substance can...
An error in the roadbook has forced officials in the 2020 Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia to amend the finishing results after a...
From 1963 to 1982, Harley-Davidson also made golf carts and the most famous, belonging to Elvis Presley, is now up...
Tough navigation, rocky terrain and a super marathon second stage of the Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia dropped two-time winner and current title holder Toby Price down the order. He finished 15th on the day and is now ninth overall, but still happy with his performance. Super marathon A super marathon stage lasts two...
Last year we lamented the sad loss of Easy Rider star Peter Fonda who died at the age of 79,...
A 22-year-old man wanted for 55 traffic offences including several for speeds of more than 150km/h in Brisbane’s northern suburbs...
Aussie two-time Dakar Rally winner and current title holder Toby Price has come out fighting from day one with a resounding win and two-minute lead in the first stage. The KTM Red Bull number one rider usually plays safe in the first week of the Dakar Rally, attacking later in...
A motorbike theft has resulted in a police chase which ended overnight with a 31-year-old Morayfield man being charged with...
The Dakar Rally has controversially shifted to Saudi Arabia this year where Aussie Toby Price will defend his title in...
A 27-year-old Crestmead man has died after a head-on collision between his motorcycle and a car on Springfield Greenbank Arterial Road, south of Brisbane, overnight. Queensland Police say their initial investigations indicate that about 7.10pm, a car heading south and a motorcycle heading north collided. The rider suffered critical injuries...
Posting photos about your motorcycle could be inviting professional theft gangs to target you, warns RACQ safety technical officer and...
Just weeks after completing the two jumps from The Great Escape, former Isle of Man TT racer turned TV daredevil Guy...
Two male riders have died on New Year’s Eve in NSW in a tragic end to 2019, bringing the total number of motorcycle deaths for the year to 67. That is seven above the three-year average and was the third rider death in NSW in 24 hours. UPDATE: In an...
There was a big drop in the number of safety recalls for motorcycles in 2019. In fact, with 27 motorcycle...
Each New Year we make resolutions to do something new, better or at least different for the next year. This...
In a tragic end to 2019, a 22-year-old male rider has died in a late-night crash in Sydney’s Royal National Park while on a group ride. NSW Police say the accident occurred at 10pm on Monday (30 December 2019) on Lady Wakehurst Drive at Lilyvale, in the Royal National Park....
Stories about helmet safety and legalities, Arlen Ness and Charley Boorman, road rules, crashes, lane filtering and a big-bore kit...