Firstly, a disclaimer – I, like many of you out there, have a deeply ingrained dislike of scooters. Sure, I’m as open minded as the next guy, but the whining…
While Triumph’s 2016 range of five new Bonneville models has given us a veritable banquet of new bikes, two models were received with special anticipation: the Thruxton and Thruxton R.
Flying over the European Alps towards my island destination of Sardinia and staring down at the vast semi-wilderness with boyish awe seemed a fitting way to approach the world launch…
Suzuki’s middleweight V-Strom dual-sport could well be the motorcycle equivalent of the Swiss army knife. Suzuki’s dual-sport (or adventure touring) model, the DL1000 V-Strom, arrived in 2002, a competent and…
Are you bored of sharp scenery? Yearning to make the bella-vista a blur? Even when they’re touring, KTM are ready to race. How can a motorcycle be soft and approachable,…
The all-new CRF1000L Africa Twin was one of the most eagerly anticipated new models of 2016. This is partly due to the legendary status of the original Africa Twin, and…
One of Suzuki’s most dependable and fun-loving bikes turns ten this year, and what better birthday bling to give than the gift of gold? The Suzuki DR-Z400SM. In the often ill-defined…
If you’ve been reading AMCN for a while, you might have seen and read the odd bit about my Martek a few times in the nearly six years since I…
Another day, another variation of Yamaha’s MT range. By rights we should all be getting a little sick of these models by now, but in reality nothing could be further…
Riding a motorcycle along the famous Great Ocean Road in Victoria is nothing new – tens of thousands do it every year.And while not all of them do…
An uncaged tiger that won’t bite Triumph keeps rolling them out and the Tiger keeps getting better. With two styles in the series, the XR and the XC as the…
He isn’t a God because he can’t make a European Cypress of a plank of a seat any more comfortable than a well a pine tree. My bolt from the…
