Casting my mind back to the first sampling of the then eagerly awaited RC8; a customer at the bike shop I worked at rocks up full of…
Harley-Davidson stormed into the new millennium with a radical new model almost ready for release. The subsequent 2001 launch of the new VRSC (V-twin Racing Street Custom)…
Ducati’s ‘everybody’ bike, the Monster, comes in a mind-boggling array of configurations, engine sizes and styles – there’s something for most riders in the line up, if…
Take a look at your bike; now imagine taking an angle grinder to it. Imagine the man hours of development that made your bike what it is, and then…
When high-mileage Dutch rider Willem Heijboer decided he wanted a sportier special version of the BMW K 1600 GT two-wheeled land yacht that he’d been criss-crossing Europe on for…
John Lennon once said, “If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry.” No other quote does more justice to…
Now this was a motorcycle launch. We were in the mobile-service-devoid open spaces of Australia’s red centre. At that point coronavirus was ‘a little bit of a…
KTM obviously thumbs its nose at any suggestion that the concept of ‘sticking to your knitting’ is worth a tinker’s cuss. The Austrian brand, which…
You’re probably wondering what the point is. Benelli had a perfectly good little-big-bike in its TnT 125 (AMCN Vol 67 No 09). Perfectly good in that not only did…
Art Deco was an innovative and ultra-distinctive style of design, which spanned the boom times of the Roaring ’20s and the bust of the Depression-ridden 1930s. Derived from the…
It’s big! Cars don’t try and share a lane with you when you’re on Harley-Davidson’s Ultra Limited. One wag quipped that it must be like sitting on…
Yamaha’s TRX850 is one of those buys that represents excellent secondhand value almost two decades after the model was discontinued. The ‘Trixie’ was the evolution of…
