Australian Motorcycle News

OUR LEAD news story in this issue reports on BMW’s upcoming R 1300 GS. As you’d expect of this new adventure weapon, changes will be extensive, and headlined by a larger capacity and even more powerful 1300cc boxer engine. Considering the current R 1

Editor Dean Mellor Deputy Editor Kel Buckley Sub Editor Mark Fattore Road Test Editor Pete Vorst News Editor Hamish Cooper Founding Editor George Lynn Art Director Brendon Wise Sir Alan Cathcart, Michael Scott, Ben Purvis, Mat Oxley, Neil Morrison, A

THE NEW single-cylinder X440 is the latest step in Harley-Davidson’s journey to unlock the world’s biggest motorcycle-buying markets. We’ve already reported on the debut of the X350 and X500 parallel-twins, manufactured by Qianjiang in China, and now

I have been riding motorbikes for over 50 years (no wonder I am so tired) and I have let comments like ‘temporary citizen’ and ‘second-class citizen’ just pass me by. And also, all too often, when a group of you ride into a town, your first welcome i

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Yamaha released details of its long-rumoured 1200cc Ténéré with the new machine poised to go head-to-head with Beemer's all-conquering GS and the newly released Ducati Multistrada. The T12 was said to be equipped with a big-bore parallel-twin donk si

The Tuono 660 Factory doesn’t really have any competitors. There’s Yamaha’s MT-07 that competes on capacity, but it lacks the sports chops and electronic wizardry of the Tuono. There’s the KTM 890 Duke R, Yamaha’s MT-09 SP and Triumph’s Street Triple

“I ALWAYS had orange blood and loved the KTM brand, so after I graduated with a masters in engineering I sent an application to KTM and they gave me a job. I worked in R&D for seven years and ended up leading the PowerParts development group, but the

HANDOVER ALL 200 NEW RC 8C owners were invited on a first-come-first-served basis to collect their bikes at the Valencia GP circuit. They’d spend a day riding with Jeremy McWilliams and Mika Kallio, who were ready to offer advice. In Mika’s case, tha

1043cc inline four 235kg (wet) $17,878 (plus on-road costs) 895cc parallel twin 219kg (wet) $15,420 (plus on-road costs) 999cc inline four 226kg (wet) $19,990 (ride away) ■

In terms of electric commuter competitors, the NKD’s closest competitor is the Super Soco TC Max. Both are offered with a two-year 10,000km warranty, but the Super Soco’s powertrain isn’t modular meaning you’re stuck with the 3kW Bosch motor and its

IT WAS fitting a new era began at the 1000th Grand Prix at Le Mans. In a new schedule for 2023, both MotoE races were held on Saturday, a day after qualifying. As witnessed in previous years, this year’s entry is a mix of ex-grand prix riders (Tito R

WHAT A GREAT bike choice for a dapper Sunday cruise in the sunshine. The BMW R 18 is big, beautiful brute of a thing, guaranteed to put a grin on the face of anyone with a pulse. It looks super cool and old school, and indeed a two-cylinder boxer eng

THERE WERE nine factory riders in the 1993 world 500 championship and a raft of other riders with latest-spec V4 engines under them. Defending champion Wayne Rainey had a new teammate at Team Roberts Yamaha in Luca Cadalora, who replaced John Kocinsk

WINNING AN auction for an ex-army Mercedes-Benz Unimog was the catalyst for the establishment of Daryl Beattie Adventures. “I was doing commentary for Channel 10 on MotoGP, F1 and V8 Supercars and thought that work may dry up,” Beattie said. “Then th

EVEN WITH a machine capable of nearly 320km/h, Mick Doohan’s fastest Hockenheim race lap in in 1994 was not the all-time fastest motorcycle grand prix race lap there. Doohan’s 1m 58.566s lap that year gives a lap average speed of 206.19km/h. In 1957,

MIKE HAILWOOD’S unexpected Isle of Man TT win in the 1978 Formula One race shook up the motorcycle world, with news spreading as far as the little wooden miner’s cottage I was fixing up in northern Victoria. Suddenly the TT became a bucket list item,

DORNA’S NEW promotions chief represents a major shift in policy – even a break with tradition – for the company that controls MotoGP. Firstly, new guy Dan Rossomondo is not a member of CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta’s family (or at least not as far as we know)

Two big names missing from TT23 are Lee Johnson and Conor Cummins. Johnson is well into his long recovery after his huge crash during the North West 200, while Cummins started this year’s TT but ended up being hospitalised with a particularly nasty v

IF THE FIRST race of the 2023 Isle of Man TT didn’t set the tone for what should be a stunning race week, the opening Sidecar TT certainly did. Three-wheel legends Ben and Tom Birchall had been knocking on the door of the first-ever 120mph sidecar la

A MORE than decent official weekend crowd of just over 70,000 turned out to see WorldSBK racing, even if the Mugello MotoGP round was going to unfold just one weekend later – and less than three hours drive away over the Apennine mountains. The Ducat

A NEW WORLDSSP track best of 1m36.495s put Nicolo Bulega (Aruba Racing Ducati) on pole for his home race, and he then duly completed the Race 1 winning task once he got some clear air to work in. He was 1.6sec clear of second place rider Stefano Manz

AFTER JEFFREY BUIS (MTM Kawasaki) had secured pole position, former regular WorldSSP300 rider and Misano wildcard Bruno Ieraci (Prodina Kawasaki Racing) was a narrow but determined winner of the first race. It was shortened to 10 laps after a fault w

AUSTRALIA’S OLDEST operating racetrack, Baskerville near Hobart, is undertaking big upgrades during the winter in readiness for a very busy start to the new season of racing. Three major motorcycle meetings are scheduled at the circuit: the final rou

FOR THE SECOND year in a row, Slovak star Martin Vaculik has stood atop the podium after the FIM Speedway GP of the Czech Republic at the Marketa Stadium on 3 June. After a mundane first round of heats the meeting came alive with quality action on a

THE KINGS Lynn team has been a struggler in league racing in the British Premiership competition in recent times, but it has just pulled off the biggest signing in years to bring the 2021 world champion Artem Laguta in to the line-up for his first ta

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“I’VE REALLY fallen in love with the RC 8C today – I’ve ridden every single session, and you only do that on a bike you enjoy riding! I think the additional revs, and pulling that torque curve out a little bit, has really helped this motorcycle. At n