The funny thing about the Ducati Monster, the best-seller that kept the Bologna factory’s doors open during a very lean period, is that Ducati purists, the Ducatisti, struggled to appreciate…
Three years ago Triumph reinvented its entire Bonneville range of retro-inspired twin-cylinder motorcycles, by presenting five new models powered by all-new liquid-cooled parallel-twin engines – the 900cc Street Twin, and…
2019 represents a watershed moment for Ducati, and indeed for Superbike racing in general. That’s because for the first time ever in the past 31 years since the World Superbike…
The Bootleg Beatles. Experience Hendrix. The Counterfeit Stones. When you can’t see your favourite band live, there’s always a tribute band that can conjure up a taste of the old…
The 1980s was a starkly different time. Greed was good, there were gnarly designs and Gurney flaps and companies like Rothmans and Marlboro were branded everywhere. Cigarettes will kill but those…
The past 12 months has seen electronic safety systems and super-smart riding aids take another leap forward. Items considered cutting edge in 2017 became accepted, and even expected in 2018.
KTM’s all-new 790 Duke has been nicknamed the scalpel, and if we’d had a bookie on our 2019 We were served a smorgasbord of new models throughout 2018, and choosing…
MoTY 2015 saw the first supercharged motorcycle take part in our end-of-year shootout, and while Kawasaki was applauded for returning supercharging technology to motorcycling mainstream with its H2 and H2R…
How good has the big-bore nakedbike battle for supremacy been over the past few years? Well, not as good as it could have been, and that’s because here in Australia…
When Harley-Davidson released its new Softail range in 2017, the Fat Bob stuck out like a sore thumb with its USD fork, twin 300mm disc brakes up front, and Dolphin-torch-style…
