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HONDA, YAMAHA, KAWASAKI and Suzuki have combined with oil company ENEOS to launch a battery-sharing system in Japan. Similar to Australia’s Swap’n’Go BBQ gas bottle exchange, it eliminates range anxiety by ensuring a ready supply of fully-charged cel

A FINALIST IN RE’s recent Busted Knuckles Build Off has produced what AMCN reckons is a blueprint for a street scrambler version of the Interceptor. Perth’s MotoMax, a RE dealer since 2015, fitted enduro-type wheels and tyres, a sump guard, and class

PEUGEOT IS JOINING a trend towards adventure-styled scooters started by Honda’s X-ADV and similar offerings from Kymco, with the Italian brand the next to jump on that bandwagon. It has filed design patents for a gutsy kerb-hopper featuring the 399cc

The York Motorcycle Festival, WA’s biggest biker love-in, which has massive corporate support, has just marked its 10th anniversary. Major motorcycle companies, including Honda and Yamaha, are donating millions of dollars in humanitarian aid to the c

“IT WAS PROBABLY THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE I’VE DONE A RACE AND NOT PASSED ONE SINGLE RIDER” Jack Miller hits rock bottom after a frustrating 11th-place finish in the Argentinian MotoGP round on a recalcitrant Ducati. Aleix Espargaro celebrates his 2

While Mick Doohan confirmed that his injuries were holding him back from a return to GP racing, Anthony Gobert was getting primed to return to GP at the Australian round at Phillip Island. The MuZ Webber team approached the wild man of Aussie racing

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MY FIRST BIKE was a CZ 175 that I rode around the family dairy farm in 1964-65 with my brother Craig. The CZ had a rigid rear-end, it was a hoot sliding the thing out of control. You knew how good your solders were riding it has hard as we did! After

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HARLEY HAS GIVEN the ST treatment to three models in its line-up for 2022; the Street Glide and Road Glide tourers and has even turned it’s Low Rider S cruiser into a quasi-bagger with the release of the Low Rider ST. The biggest news for the two tou

YOU WON’T FIND any Ulysses stickers and chrome eagle bedazzlements on the MotoAmerica King of the Baggers racebikes. The Harley-Davidson Screaming Eagle Team bikes are festooned with high-end race bling and carbon-fibre components. If fact, the more

AS A ROOKIE Expert, Dick Klamfoth didn’t expect to set any records at Daytona in 1949, but he did. Riding conservatively in the beginning, Dick steadily forged his way through the field to lead a Norton 1-2-3 finishing sweep, winning the 200-miler as

IT’S BEEN MORE than 60 years since a race was last held there, but should you ever go to Daytona Beach, Florida and head south along the sand from the high-rise hotels and low-rise bars of the self-styled World’s Most Famous Beach, you’ll eventually

ON THE EVE of the Indonesian Grand Prix, Francesco Bagnaia did some back-pedalling after his emotional post-race outburst in Qatar, where his season got off to a dreadful start when he crashed, taking out fellow GP22 rider Jorge Martin with him. Blam

Videopass, Kayo, Foxsports 24 APRIL 8pm With the GP circus finally heading back to Europe, you can stay up late rather than get up early to catch all the action live. Moto3 starts at 8pm, Moto2 at 9.20pm and MotoGP race at 11pm. Videopass, Foxsports

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ONE OF THE great things about being a bike journo is playing with products you normally wouldn’t buy. Well, you might, but if the aftermarket industry had to rely on me, we’d all be in trouble. I like to cobble my old stuff until it falls off. Hey, I

THE LAST FEW years have been pretty hectic despite Covid, and I’ve spent most of that time racing in Europe in the world Supersport 300 Championship. Even though I was competitive right from the first test, being young and not knowing the tracks made

DON’T ASK ME how that happened. Aprilia, I mean. From bottom of the class to the top of the podium, in one easy move. Well, perhaps not one… it’s actually taken seven years of dogged persistence in the face of serial humiliation. But it still seems t

ALL PRE-RACE talk surrounded the dazzling feats of Fermin Aldeguer (Speed Up Boscoscuro), who, at 16 years and 362 days, made history on Saturday by becoming the youngest polesitter in intermediate class history. Sunday’s extended warm-up session sug

SERGIO GARCIA (ASPAR GasGas) took a brilliant first win of the year in a frenetic last-lap fight with the Leopard Hondas. The Spaniard fought back from third with five corners remaining, thanks to rapid-fire moves on Tatsuki Suzuki at Turn 9 and then

THE OPENING CHORDS of the 2022 WorldSBK thrash metal tour were played at full volume, demanding attention even on a weekend with MotoGP doing its country music thing over in COTA. With new WorldSBK king Toprak Razgatlioglu (Pata Yamaha with Brixx), t

THE NEW WORLDSSP era, with much larger engined machines taking on the traditional 600cc four-cylinders, started with a bang, especially at the end of Race 1 when eventual winner Lorenzo Baldassarri (Evan Bros Yamaha) and the closely following 2021 ch

THE FIRST RACE of the day in a revised running order, the championship battle was blown wide open with the top three in the championship all crashing out in a dramatic first third of the race. Somkiat Chantra (HTA Kalex) took down Sam Lowes (Marc VDS

SEVERAL OF THE championship contenders in WorldSSP300 left at the end of last year and it told in the results. If not always in the way we expected. The very first WorldSSP300 champion Marc Garcia (MS Racing Yamaha) ripped away from his peers in the

ALL RUNNING IN free practice pointed to two men – Dennis Foggia (Leopard Honda) and polesitter Andrea Migno (Snipers Honda) – breaking clear. But the Moto3 grid encountered a strong head wind on the back straight, making slipstream critical, and bunc

ON THE ONE hand, things have never been better for Aleix Espargaro. Together with Aprilia, he has turned the RS-GP into a race-winning bike and they went to Texas leading the championship for the first time in their respective histories. But it’s not

WE ALL EXPECTED it to take some time for new BMW rider Scott Redding to get to real grips with an inline four engine format and new manufacturer that has only one damp race win in recent times, but the entire experience of Redding at Motorland was wo

THE FIRST RIDER to win outright in the Australian Off-Road Championship on a 250cc in the current era, Tasmanian Kyron Bacon, surprised everyone with his speed in the opening rounds. “It was rough and wet, similar to home, so while I was pretty comfo

EVEN IF THE top of the shop riders in WorldSBK were the expected three in the very first race of 2022, behind those exceptional suspects there were a lot of new and exchange packages that impressed all with their pace. Nobody expected both new ex-Mot

TWENTY-TWO AUSTRALIAN riders are in the teams to start the Premiership and Championship league competitions in the UK. Twelve riders – Max Fricke, Brady Kurtz, Jye Etheridge, Jake Allen, Jason Doyle, Troy Batchelor, Cameron Heeps, Josh Pickering, Jac

THE AUSTRALIAN SPEEDWAY Sidecar Championship will be staged at the Gillman Speedway in Adelaide this weekend with the Qualifying Meeting on Saturday night (16 April) and then the Championship decider on Sunday night. For fans who cannot get to Gillma

IT WAS ON 15 March 1921 that the company Società Anonima Moto Guzzi was constituted in the offices of the notary Paolo Cassanello in Corso Aurelio Saffi, Genoa, for “the fabrication and sale of motorcycles, and all other activities pertinent or corre

MOST OF US attribute human characteristics to our motorcycles. It’s important that it has character, that the manufacturer doesn’t overdo the engineering budget and remove all the soul from our bikes, rendering them boring. For passionate motorcyclis

TO CELEBRATE THE occasion of Moto Guzzi’s 100 years, the Italian manufacturer has produced a limited series of V7, V9 and V85 TT models in a special Centenario livery. While very different bikes built for very different purposes, all three sport the