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There’s something about watching superbikes in person that TV can’t match. You hear the bikes long before they come over the crest, and you finally get a sense of how fast the riders are going. Plenty of US tracks also let you go one step further and ride the circuit yourself on...
Hardly anyone buys a kit all at once. You buy a jacket in the spring, gloves after the first cold morning and boots a year later, once the sneakers start to look like a bad idea on a 40 mph road. What you end up with is four pieces sitting at four different levels of protection,...
As the autumn show season kicks into gear, we have a rather congested list of two-wheeled teasers, MotoGP movement and more: BMW Motorrad has dropped a shadowy teaser with a countdown to an October 1 reveal. Liberty Media continues reshaping MotoGP’s front office, with new blood...
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Getting into dirt riding used to mean buying a proper dirt bike, and a proper dirt bike asks a lot of a beginner. The clutch will stall you in front of everyone at least once, and the seat is usually tall enough that shorter riders spend their first hour on tiptoe, praying they d...
By the end of 1976 you could have thrown a wrench across a Grand Prix paddock and hit an RG500. Suzuki’s two-stroke square four had gone from works prototype to the default premier-class machine in barely two seasons, filling 11 of the top 12 places in the World Championship, and...
Today, we have a fresh lineup of paddock drama, film tours, custom builds, and trade floor check-ins to dig through as the riding season heads into its autumn stride: MotoGP bikes may still be circling their respective circuits, but KTM has locked in a Grand Prix win on home soil...
Today, we have a brilliant list of to-do’s as everybody continues toward the riding season’s slow-downs: Canada and the U.S. have locked horns in a fresh trade dispute, placing a 50% counter-tariff on American heavyweight bikes. Moto Guzzi’s historic Mandello del Lario headquarte...
There are motorcycles you remember because they were beautiful. Others stick with you because they were fast, or because they scared the hell out of you, or because somebody you knew had one and spent an unreasonable amount of time explaining why his was better than everybody els...
Nobody gets into motorcycles hoping to buy a pickup truck. You bought the bike because it was the cheap and interesting way to get around, and then at some point you need something that can carry the bike rather than be the bike. That purchase usually lands at a bad moment, right...
This week, we have a great run-up of news to keep you busy: Harley-Davidson has approved a Q3 cash dividend of $0.1875 per share, leaving some riders wondering where the long-term R&D budget is headed. KTM has pulled the sheets off their brand new 2027 300 EXC HARDENDURO, complet...
The Suzuki GSX-R750 made an immediate impact when it reached dealerships for the 1985 model year. Before it arrived, building a faster motorcycle usually meant one thing, bolting a bigger engine into a heavier frame and accepting the extra weight as the cost of doing business. Su...
By the early 1990s, Ducati had already proven it could win. Raymond Roche took the World Superbike title in 1990, and Doug Polen backed it up in 1991 and 1992, both riding the factory’s V-twins. Then Scott Russell took a Kawasaki past them in 1993, leaving a small and financially...
A used motorcycle can be a very good buy. It can also be somebody else’s problem with a fresh set of grips on it, and photos in a listing will not tell you which one you are looking at. That is the reason to run the VIN before you go anywhere. A VIN check pulls title and odometer...
After a motorcycle crash, the bike usually gets most of the attention. It is easy to look at broken fairings, bent bars, scraped cases, or a twisted front end and assume the motorcycle tells the whole story. It does not. The helmet, jacket, gloves, boots, pants, armor, camera foo...
Between 1958 and 1974, one small factory in the Italian town of Cascina Costa won the premier class of motorcycle Grand Prix racing seventeen years running. No other manufacturer has come close to that streak before or since. Mike Hailwood’s four consecutive 500cc World Champions...
Buying your first motorcycle usually comes with a list. Helmet, gloves, jacket, maybe a battery tender, a cover and a box of tools you don’t know how to use yet. What usually doesn’t make the list is anything for the pickup that brings the motorcycle home. That changes quickly on...
Ranking dirt is harder than ranking pavement. A great paved road is a great paved road for everyone, but off-road riding splits by terrain, skill and machine before you ever look at a map. A rider chasing Utah slickrock and a family hauling trail bikes to a private park in Michig...
In December 1956, Soichiro Honda and his sales chief Takeo Fujisawa flew to Europe looking for their next big idea. They came back convinced that neither a moped nor a scooter would do. What they needed was something new entirely, built for a country where only one road in ten wa...
This week, we have quite a bit of Italian fun in the roster, as well as a considerable record: For the 22nd time, Ducati has won the Manufacturer’s Title in WorldSBK, begging the query as to why Ducati keeps on winning. Suzuki has released their 2027 Hayabusa – and, in true Suzuk...
In 1936, Harley-Davidson bet its future on an engine nobody had asked for. The country was still climbing out of the worst motorcycle sales slump in American history, and the company’s big twins were still running on decades-old flathead technology. Into that uncertain moment, Ha...
This week, we have some industry news and a slew of new bikes: Dwayne Johnson’s partnering with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s label in a new stunt drama called “Free Byrd,” where the former wrestler plays a Las Vegas biker diagnosed with dementia. Harley-Davidson is officially rev...
Nobody agrees on the best motorcycle road in America, which is half the fun of arguing about it. The country has 3.9 million miles of pavement and the overwhelming majority of it exists to move grain trucks and commuters. What’s left over, the roads that feel like they were built...
(Contributed post for North American readers) Are you planning a road trip on your motorbike or in your car? Sure you must be feeling the adrenaline rush! However to live up to your expectations and to make your trip a memorable one, there are certain things that you need to prep...
This week, we have a rather insane dump of goodies to the ol’ docket: Volkswagen’s tightening finances and obsession with EV means their advisors are recommending Ducati Motor Holding be sold. BMW Motorrad’s CEO, Markus Flasch, has just landed the role of President of ACEM – and...