Bike nights are mushrooming around the country with the latest one in Ipswich such a success they are planning an...
Two mini-series about riding across Siberia and the length of Africa with Australian-based international motorcycle travel company Compass Expeditions are...
Valentino Rossi’s YZR-M1 MotoGP motorcycle is a highlight of a long list of the 2018 models to feature at the Sydney Motorcycle Show from Friday (November 24, 2017). Just weeks after new models were unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show and EICMA show in Milan, most will be at the International...
You can go riding with V8 Supercar legend Craig Lowndes on March 7. The five-time Bathurst winner and pet lover will...
Aussies are expected to be among the foolhardy entrants in the sixth Ice Run riding Ural outfits across 2000km of...
The 44th Historic Winton race event for classic motorcycles and cars returns in May 2021 after being cancelled last year because of the COVID-19 endemic. Sadly, it’s a scaled-back event with no spectators allowed at the Winton Motor Raceway near Benalla in Victoria. That’s a shame as Australia’s longest running,...
Australia’s country music capital, Tamworth, will host a National Thunder Motorcycle Rally in October 2020 based on the successful 2015...
Cyclone Debbie forced a scheduled Show and Shine in aid of depressions sufferers at Mt Mee’s Pitstop Cafe to be...
Former long-time Tonight show host and “petrol-head” Jay Leno has returned to TV with his Jay Leno’s Garage show, featuring many motorcycles. The Television Hall of Famer hosted his last episode of The Tonight Show on February 6, 2014, and since then he has been airing Jay Leno’s Garage as...
Delays in bridgework on the famed Lions Rd forced the cancellation of the Lions TT, but organisers plan to return...
Riders who buy tickets online for the 2016 Moto Expo in Melbourne will go in the running for an Asian...
For the first time, the BMW TS Safari will allow BMW riders to “bring a buddy” who rides another brand of bike on the five-day tarmac tour. It’s a clever move to reach out to the unconverted and follows a similar move by Harley-Davidson to open up its annual owners...
Non-riders can be bikers for a day and support a worthy charity when the Cape York Harley Owners Group runs...
Motorists will be alerted to Look Out For Motorcycles during the NSW Motorcycle Awareness Month starting on Sunday (7 October...
The son of Hollywood film star and motorcycle legend Steve McQueen will head to Australia in October as the face of the Motorclassica collector car and motorcycle exhibition in Melbourne. Like his father, Chad McQueen is a race car driver as well as a film producer. In January 2010, he started McQueen...
NSW motorcyclists are being asked to ride to work tomorrow (October 11, 2017) to celebrate the first National Ride Your Motorcycle to...
(Contributed post on poker runs for our North American readers. Photo – WLRN) Poker and motorcycles might not seem like...
There was “no sign of enforcement” on the first of a two-day police and emergency services motorcycle road safety education campaign with riders on the Gold Coast hinterland. The campaign continues Sunday (25 August 2019) at the Numinbah Valley School of Arts Hall from 7am-1pm, run by the Nerang Police Station and...
Henry Crew, 23, is heading to Australia on his bid to become the youngest person to ride around the world...
The Kawasaki GPZ900R made famous in Tom Cruise’s 1986 Top Gun has a cameo revival in the the long-awaited Top...
One of the largest known collections of MV Agusta motorcycles go up for auction on Saturday (February 9, 2019), including nearly every production model since 1945. Almost 100 motorcycles and even scooters from an unnamed Italian family will go under the hammer at the Retromobile Show in Paris. Retromobile says the bikes,...
Tickets to ride in the fifth Ellaspede Dust Hustle go on sale on Wednesday, August 30, 2017, at 6pm and the 140 rider...
The baton in the Women Riders World Relay arrived for the Australian leg yesterday with about 58 women riding out of Perth. Among them...
A tribute motorcycle to Isle of Man TT racing legend Joey Dunlop who died in 2000 is the highlight of an online auction in his Northern Ireland homeland. The limited-edition Honda SP-1 was commissioned by Honda dealer Tippetts Motors of Surbiton, Surrey, in the early 2000s to commemorate the Northern...
Over more than 40 years, BMW Motorrad in Australia has offered riding safaris for road, dirt and extreme off-road situations....
Gold Coast rider Greg Kelly, 61, was diagnosed with dementia in February but is now fighting back with Kell’s Ride...
Even though the seventh annual Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride on 30 September 2018 shines an “extra strong” spotlight on men’s health issues, the event is also eagerly supported by many ladies. Ladies take charge ‘In fact, almost 30 of the rides planned this year in more than 650 cities across 95 countries...
The ninth annual Far Cairn Rally to Tottenham in central NSW returns in spring 2016 to raise money to help...
James Bond movies are usually associated with exotic cars, but motorcycles have also featured. Victoria’s Motorclassica will showcase one of...
Australia’s first Motorcycle Friendly Region will be launched in Avon Valley, Western Australia, in April as the concept starts to gather pace around the country. The first Motorcycle Friendly Town was Bicheno in Tasmania, followed by Texas, SEQ, and last December Wauchope on the Oxley Highway joined the welcoming trend....
The CFMoto 650TK sportstourer not only looks like a Honda ST1300, but ageing ST owners are now considering the lighter...
Brisbane women riders will set out on their own to raise funds and awareness for breast cancer this month. While...
The Wall to Wall Remembrance Ride to honour police who have died in the line of duty will be sponsored by Victory Motorcycles Australia. The ride to Canberra on September 12 will help raise money for each State’s Police Legacy Charities and promote safe and lawful motorcycling. Victory Motorcycles will...
This is a new section of Motorbike Writer where you get to plug your motorcycle event. It doesn’t matter if...
You can ride your bike “the way it was intended” at Happy Laps, a fundraising day of track riding that raises funds for Beyond Blue and...
There has always been a “rift” between motorcycle “rockers” and scooter riders. The conflict reached its famed zenith 50 years ago when rockers and mods clashed at the British seaside town of Brighton on the bank holiday weekend of May 18-19, 1964. Motorcycle riders were known as rockers because of...
The Gold Coast Black Dog Ride 1 Dayer will go ahead on Sunday (March 20, 2016) despite Queensland Police failing to assure...
The latest Charley Boorman and Ewan McGregor adventure, the Long Way Up, will be shown on Apple TV+ in the...
Historic motorcycle racing is roaring back into life this weekend at Queensland’s historic Lakeside Park Raceway. There will be plenty of eye candy for spectators from today (September 26) with bikes ranging from 1920s vintage models to those built up to and including 1990. The Shannon’s 2014 Australian Historic Road Race...
Bikers for Autism Australia hopes to raise money this Sunday (August 30, 2015) for a Sunshine Coast family doing it...