TO CELEBRATE the recent opening of its newest site at Somerton in Victoria, Honda Australia Rider Training (HART) is holding an open day on August 29.

The event will include free “Try it” sessions for riders at both beginner and experienced levels, and HART is offering $50 off any course booked and paid for on [...]

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ACCORDING TO FIGURES released by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI), the motorcycle market has experienced a marked fall in sales over the first half of 2009, with scooters in particular declining in showroom popularity.

Around 55,500 motorcycles, ATVs and scooters were sold in the first six months of this year, representing a 14 percent [...]

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Need the approval of your local thugs?  There’s no better way than to pull up on your “more than you can afford, pal” BMW K1300R and rip a burnout.

Soon, you’ll be riding alongside the gang’s boss-man, his girlfriend (of the day) blowing kisses and winking at your leather-clad self from the passenger seat.  But you [...]

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BMW’s F800 ST brings a new level of appeal to the term ‘all-rounder’.

From its staid, conservative image of not so many years ago, BMW has transformed itself into a vibrant powerhouse of avant-garde motorcycle design, and now produces a range of machines to suit riders of just about any persuasion.

In recent years it has set [...]

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Here’s a heads up, friends. Just got news that there’s an Orwellian nightmare for riders brewing south of the drain, and it’s likely to spread (like rabbits, the clap, and speed cameras).

Most riders will be aware that there has been ongoing debate among regulators in all states, through the Australian Transport Council, about front number [...]

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NSW: ah yes kiddos, things are in a right old mess up here in the ‘rum, buggery and the lash’ state. Politically speaking that is. We’ve got the on-going mess we loosely call City Rail, the desalination cock-up, a budget with more bits hanging out of it than an octogenarian’s underpants… and that’s just the [...]

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Due this month, the latest downloadable update for Burnout Paradise will breathe some life back into Paradise with the inclusion of night-time racing (as if zooming through Paradise City wasn’t hair-raising enough already!), and motorcycles.

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Big-bore nakeds are well and truly ‘back in town’. To put a bit more heat in the kitchen, Suzuki has announced a ‘special edition’ of its popular, and enormously ‘grunty’ GSX1400 naked which is due to arrive here in coming weeks.

Reflecting Suzuki’s factory racing heritage, the GSX1400Z features special-edition blue and white livery, including Suzuki’s [...]

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Not everyone has been thinking with their bums on the dual issues of high petrol prices and urban congestion.

Victorian motor body, VACC, has called on State and Federal Governments to give more support to scooter and motorcycle riders. It says that high petrol prices are fuelling the case for two-wheeled transport, and is calling on [...]

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Hmm, seems someone is passing the smarties around in that nest of vipers affectionately known as the Victorian Parliament. In an announcement that will gladden the hearts of those who like to mix their motoring modes (two wheels… four… who gives a rat’s rectum?), the Victorian Government has finally worked out that putting folk with [...]

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Last year was a record year for car sales in Australia with sales breaking through the one million mark in December for the first time in history. It was also a record year for motorcycle sales with the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) showing that 129,966 motorcycles were sold last year - an increase [...]

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