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I HAD a chuckle the other day when AMCN Road Test Editor Pete Vorst pointed out that “We live in a strange world where other manufacturers are playing catch-up to H-D.” Pete was referring to a Triumph press release about the Tiger 1200 range now scor

THE FIRST stage of the Australian Motorsport Innovation Precinct (AMIP) at Sydney Motorsport Park has officially opened with the $10 million trackside motorsport technology hub already home to a number of innovative businesses. Developed by The Austr

New Zealand’s speed chasing icon Burt Munro has been inducted into the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum Hall of Fame. Winless MotoGP veteran Johann Zarco has been thrown a lifeline as HRC grabs his experience to help steer the development of the new and imp

CHINA’S BENDA grabbed international attention with the launch of its first four-cylinder bike – the crazy-looking LFC700 cruiser – and now an updated version is in the works. While the new model looks nearly identical to the original, the outline of

Only last month the specifications for Kawasaki’s upcoming pair of electric bikes – the naked Z E-1 and faired Ninja E-1 – were leaked in Australian type-approvals, but recently published European documents put the bikes’ rated continuous power outpu

HONDA HAS filed patents for new mirrors that promise not only better rear vision, but also improved handling as well. The new design could be related to upcoming naked models including the expected next-generation CB1000R or a naked version of the Ha

Honda announced its year 2000 range of production racers, with the NSR500 V-twin topping the lineup. The 500, including set-up kit, would have set you back just $182,000 (around $324,000 today); an RS250R was a tad less at $37,000 (almost $66,000 tod

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Engine 799cc parallel-twin Power 70kW (94hp) @ 9000rpm Torque 77Nm @ 7500rpm Weight 225kg (kerb, claimed) Seat height 825mm $16,490 (ride away) Engine 1043cc inline-four Power 88.2kW (118hp) @ 9000rpm Torque 102Nm @ 7500rpm Weight 255kg (kerb, claime

Doyle on the boil! Victory for the Aussie star in the recent FIM GP Challenge, which now guarantees him a spot in the 2024 Speedway Grand Prix series. And how good does that surface look! ■

I BOUGHT MY RD350LC in early 1981 for around $2000, encouraged by Graeme, a non-riding motorcycle enthusiast with an encyclopaedic knowledge of grand prix racing and a gift for tuning engines. It was a step up from my first bike, a DT250cc Yamaha tra

WHEN FORMER AMCN editor Mike Hanlon reviewed the Yamaha RD350LC in February 1981, he compared it to the speed of light: “Light, being the fastest thing in existence, actually stops time … The RD350LC is almost that fast." Today, 40 years after it wen

Fox Sports, Kayo and Videopass Check website and local guides Off to Barcelona as the second half of the season gets underway – and Bagnaia looking more ominous by the minute. Who can reign him in around the fantastic Catalunya circuit? Fox Sports an

WITH WARM, dry weather already here I’ve added this pair of Motodry Denim Originals Jeans to my riding kit. Available in slim and regular fit, I went for the latter for obvious reasons, and was pleased to find they fit as comfortably as any non-ridin

WITH SOME riding in India’s monsoon season on the horizon, Ixon’s Orion jacket looks just the ticket. As well as having good protection, it’s highly ventilated and comes complete with a lightweight waterproof over-jacket that you can throw on when Hu

FUNNY HOW some of the early retro bikes have now become classic bikes. Thirty-odd years ago it never occurred to us that a classic retro would be a thing but of course it was inevitable. It seems tautological but there you have it. It’s true. It took

SEVERAL PEOPLE thought Jorge Martin was not so much the dastardly perpetrator of the first corner mayhem in the Sprint race in Austria, but another innocent victim. The most vehement was Martin himself, squeezed in an elbows-out melee off the start l

BAGNAIA may have eased to his fourth Sprint victory of the year ahead of a spirited Binder. But all talk surrounded Martin after the Spaniard was involved in two of the race’s big talking points. The first was triggered by Viñales’ miserable start of

THE FACT Pedro Acosta (Ajo Kalex) had a costume change planned for his slowdown lap indicated he thought a victory in front of the watching KTM bosses was a shoe in. Instead, the Spaniard’s celebrations carried a hollow air as Celestino Vietti (Fanti

HOW MANY ways can you contrive to not win a race? Japan’s Ayumu Sasaki (IntactGP Husqvarna) finds new means to do so after he failed to win a contest in which he led on the final lap for the fifth straight occasion. This time the Japanese rider appea

AS THE BSB season heats up, the big news to drop prior to Thruxton was the announcement that the McAMS Yamaha team would be disbanding – leaving Aussie star Jason O’Halloran on the hunt for a 2024 ride. O’Halloran, who was having a lean 2023 until th

AUSTRALIAN SPEEDWAY rider Nick Morris will not be able to compete in the sport until at least July 2025. A British Speedway Control Bureau Disciplinary Hearing imposed a two-year suspension of Morris’ ACU Licence and his SCB Registration as well as f

JASON DOYLE has ensured that he will be part of the Speedway Grand Prix series in 2024 by winning the FIM Grand Prix Challenge Meeting in Gislaved, Sweden on 19 August. Doyle and Slovakian Martin Vaculik tied on 13 points, both from three wins and tw