Long-awaited roadworks to fix the poor state of the famed and much-loved Oxley Highway’s mountain section are about to get...
Technology has outpaced road rules on driver distraction, leaving the current rules inadequate, difficult to police and confusing as they...
A 22-year-old male rider has died after a collision with a truck on an M4 highway off-ramp in Sydney’s west this morning. Police say the rider was travelling east on the M4 highway when his motorcycle collided with a truck at the Church Street off ramp about 8.20am (Tuesday 30...
It’s time the motorcycle industry advertised the benefits of riding to work by motorcycle as commuting times have increased about...
Future motorcycles might be able to issue warnings to tell you if you have chosen the right apex and speed...
A motorcyclist out for a Sunday ride on his favourite local mountain road has died in a crash. The 34-year-old male rider from Middle Park was enjoying a Sunday ride on Mt Glorious (pictured above) Brisbane’s favourite motorcycling road, at 8.27am today when he “lost control and struck a tree”,...
Australian motorcycle journalist Rennie Scaysbrook may forever hold the record for the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb in Colorado after the committee decided...
The organiser of the annual Blessing of the Bikes (pictured) before the annual Phillip Island MotoGP plans a campaign he...
How would you like to wheelie a Ducati Panigale V4 S at the touch of a button? Well, now you can! However, it’s not the real thing, but a self-balancing 1:6 scale toy from Spin Master Toys costing about $A270 when it is released in August. The Ducati-licensed Upriser has a...
The fallout continues in the wake of last month’s tragic accident in the USA where a driver ploughed his pick-up...
While riders have been safely using bus lanes in NSW, the ACT and several major cities around the world for...
An appeal could be launched against a Canberra motorist who received a “light penalty” for twice swerving dangerously at legally lane-filtering motorcyclists. The driver, Jake Searle, 28, had been charged with two counts of driving with intent to menace. He faced maximum penalties of more than $3000 in fines or 12 months...
This BMW G 310 GS knockoff is the latest in a long line of Chinese products that rip off the...
President Donald Trump’s trade wars are hitting Harley-Davidson hard with a 22% bite in profits to $US426m after a 8.4%...
A Canberra motorist facing possible jail time for swerving his car at two lane-filtering motorcyclists has got off with a relative slap on the wrist. The driver, Jake Searle, 28, had been charged with to counts of driving with intent to menace and faced maximum penalties of more than $3000 in fines or...
If you are heading down to do a lap of Tasmania before or after your annual MotoGP pilgrimage, watch out...
Saturday was deadly for motorcycle riders with three killed and several injured as nine motorcycles were involved in four crashes...
A 50-year-old male rider has died in a head-on collision with a ute on the Rosewood-Marburg Rd at Tallegalla, west of Ipswich, about 4.15pm yesterday (18 July 2019). It is the fourth motorcycle crash with a ute in South East Queensland in the past couple of weeks. Police say the Pine Mountain...
Yamaha Motor Australia has recalled 1193 MT-07 and XSR700 models for a missing exhaust noise compliance sticker. The official notice...
Ducati has now recalled a variant of the Panigale V4 for the fifth time with four recalls in its first...
Piaggio Australia has recalled 54 2018 ZIP 50 4T scooters over a throttle fault that could cause the scooter to slow down quickly. The official Australian Competition and Consumer Commission recall notice says the fault could increase the “risk of an accident or injury to the rider”. It says the...
Today is the 50th anniversary of the first public screening of the cult 1969 movie Easy Rider. In the USA, many...
Australian motorcycle journalist Rennie Scaysbrook has posted a video of his record run at the recent Pikes Peak International Hillclimb...
A 33-year-old Gatton male rider has died in a collision with a ute at a Gatton intersection last night (12 July 2019). Police say that at 6pm, a motorcycle and a utility travelling on Eastern Drive collided at the intersection of Forest Hill-Laidley Road. The rider was pronounced deceased at...
Retired and honoured motorcycle industry veteran Stuart Strickland has delivered blunt criticism of the industry and the dictators who make...
Cap motorcycle speeds at 50km/h is one of the more ludicrous suggestions put forward at the first of a series...
A male rider has died after hitting a guard rail and another rider has been injured after being hit by a truck in seperate crashes in South East Queensland yesterday afternoon. Police say a man died at the scene of a crash at Yandina about 2.30pm. He was riding south...
Police in every state plan to immediately increase police presence on regional roads leading up to a “National Day of...
A bizarre court battle is looming between a Taiwan company that owns Italian motorcycle brand FB Mondial and a Brit...
“Life without danger is just no life at all” says a new motorcycle documentary featuring racers Freddie Spencer, Colin Edwards, Ron Haslam and Peter Hickman. The documentary film title Speed is my Need is an interesting version of the computer game Need for Speed and the Tom Cruise line from...
As if there already isn’t enough Harley-Davidson merchandise, now Danish toy company Lego has produced a scale-model Fat Boy model....
Yamaha Motor Australia has recalled 124 R3 and MT-03 (pictured above) learner motorcycles over possible breaking front brakes. The official...
The Victorian Motorcycle Council has called to remove mandatory hi-vis vests for learner riders in its 10-page submission to the review of Victorian Road Safety (Driver) Regulations. Among many changes to the road rules, the road regs review proposes one demerit point for learner riders who do not wear a...
Italian rider Luca Colombo has beaten Aussie stunt rider Robbie Maddison’s world record on water by riding a motorcycle 1.9km across Lake...
Over the years I have ridden a huge variety of motorbikes and have noticed that when I’m riding some models...
A continuing downturn in motorcycle sales, as well as car sales, in the first half of the year has been blamed on the Federal election, floods, drought and tight financial lending. There is little relief from the bleak news with road bike sales suffering the biggest loss of -17.7% as...
Germany has knocked back a plea by a Sikh rider to wear a turban instead of a helmet on religious...
Honda Motorcycles Australia has recalled 183 of their learner motorcycles over an issue which could cause locking of the rear...
Famous charity rider Tex O’Grady is set to retire his second dog pillion, Bundy, and is currently training her replacement, Rebel. Tex and Bundy racked up a million kilometres in December 2017 raising more than $6m for charities. He says it is a world record for a motorcycle dog that...
Two riders died in separate intersection crashes in South East Queensland yesterday (3 July 2019) where it appears a vehicle...