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…
The gap between the technology haves and have-nots for AMCN Motorcycle of the Year 2018 is the widest it’s been in the long history of the annual shootout. At one…
On my way to this year’s motorcycle show Intermot in Cologne, I stopped in a small, pretty German town for lunch. In the car park were three spaces…
More than one million Suzuki GSX-Rs have been sold since the now legendary moniker first broke cover with the Japan-only 1984 GSX-R400. Like now, it was a powered by a…
I’ve seen some pretty incredible feats of technology come and go over the years. Manufacturers constantly push the boundaries of what’s deemed normal and many things that featured as mechanically…
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…
Kake rareta! Or, if you prefer the English translation, gobsmacked! That was the universal reaction as thousands of Japanese punters filed into the 1968 Tokyo Motorcycle Show, the centrepiece of…
Retro is hot property in motorcycling at the moment and I, along with many others, thought BMW, Ducati and Triumph were nailing it just fine with the R nineT Racer,…
“Our customers expect something sporty made the KTM way, not like other manufacturers do it,” president Stefan Pierer told me in an interview. “I don’t think a sport tourer in…
