AMCN took it to the limit in 2025 to bring you the best package of words and photos you can buy. Here we relive somespectacular moments captured through the lenses of our team of photographers
At Round 4 of WorldSBK, Nicolo Bulega was leading the championship but probably thought this moment would be season-changing. You have a lot of time to think as you’re flying through the air at a ballistic paceWe hear a lot about China in the daily news but few of us have any idea about what it’s actually like to visit this vast economic and social powerhouse. Leading photographer Martin Bissig took our readers on an eight-page pictorial motorcycle odysseyHandbuilt exotica lives in France as Boxer Design assembles its $131k Brough Superior Dagger. Yes, handbuilt comes at a price and Alan Cathcart tested one without putting a scratch on it, just wearing some tread off the edges of the tyresRob Mott took this classic shot that sums up both the ASBK championship and the unique nature of Queensland’s Morgan Park Raceway. Champ Josh Waters broke his Morgan Park hoodoo, leaving his rivals trailing behind like a Mildura wakeboarderThis evocative shot of Daniel Sanders summed up the way he sandblasted his opposition to win the 2025 FIM RallyGP titleYamaha’s all-new R9 had a big reputation riding on its world launch. AMCN’s Adam ‘Chad’ Child summed up its versatility in challenging conditions with this wet-weather wheelie in Spain on a track even factory officials hadn’t ridden it on beforeEven serial world champs started out as just another face in a crowd of eager juniors. Here’s a young Marc Marquez already showing that famous laser-like focus on winningYou can’t get more Seventies Old School Cool than this publicity image we dug out of the archives of a young Ken Blake sitting on his Jack Walters-sponsored Yamaha, with ‘Kim Rowher from Epping’, as the writing on the back of the photo read. Can someone tell us if Kim is still around? We’d love to give her a Gassit T-shirt to replace that tank top. We’re sure it, the bell-bottom jeans and cork platform shoes ended up in an op-shopWe’ve featured some crazy riders over the years on crazy bikes but, really, 200,000km across 40-plus countries on a heavyweight Harley-Davidson Iron 883? Elena Axinte sure had a story to tellDefending Indian King of the Baggers champ Troy Herfoss gave it his all before a controversial technical disqualification undid all the goodIf you were to choose an image that illustrates how Aprilia came out of the shadows to challenge Ducati supremacy in MotoGP, this is it. Marco Bezzechi takes the fight to Marc Marquez at Round 13 at the Red Bull Ring in Austria