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Motorcycle Reviews
Manufacturers have jumped on the retro and custom motorcycle bandwagon. If you want to own a cafe racer or a scrambler styled motorcycle you can now buy one right off the showroom floor. From the latest addition to the Triumph Bonneville range to the updated Ducati Scrambler or BMW R Nine T, we test ride and review them all. If you’re interested in owning a retro bike without any of the ongoing maintenance or DIY challenges you can start researching here with one of our in-depth motorcycle reviews.
Well, that wraps up yet another year of amazing cafe racer builds from custom workshops and backyard builders around the...
Just as we’d come to terms with the death of two-stroke road bikes, a new independent manufacturer has raised the...
Many of 2020s most significant motorcycle shows have been cancelled due to the COVID 19 pandemic. Amongst them was the...
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! We’ve just finished sifting through the past 12 months of articles to...
The Indian FTR 1200 is almost spectacular. It handles perfectly, it’s astonishingly well put-together and its power delivery is aggressive,...
The purists will tell you there’s no such thing as a factory-built custom motorcycle. But if you’re not one of...
The 2019 Esposizione Internazionale Ciclo Motociclo e Accessori, or EICMA as it is commonly known, is in full swing. As...
How much difference can 300cc make? I made the mistake of thinking the Ducati Scrambler 1100 wasn’t much more than...
Triumph seems to have created the ultimate Scrambler. They’ve gone a step further than everyone else and built a fully...
If you read through the comments section on any modern cafe racer review you are sure to come across a...
My dog doesn’t care for the Yamaha XSR900. When I arrive home on any other motorcycle the small ball of...
O, to be a motorcycle journalist in the 1970s. When men were hairy, and bikes were lairy. With their barely-there...
It’s been 3 years since the release of Triumph’s water-cooled Bonneville range. Amongst the first of the new Modern Classics...
Royal Enfield lay claim to producing the world’s longest constant production motorcycle design. The first Royal Enfield Bullet rolled out...
In the world of modern-retro motorcycles, there’s a new player who is somewhat of a black sheep. That’s mainly due...
The motorcycle industry as a whole has been struggling through declining sales for several years now. There are plenty of...
I’d been burning around town on the Svartpilen 401 for a week. The time had finally come to exchange it...
Too much hype can lead to disappointment. We see it almost every time Apple reveals a new product or there’s...
Is there such a thing as a factory built cafe racer? If you ask a purist they’ll tell you no...
I have to confess I tend to get a bit excited when a motorcycle manufacturer announces they are releasing a...
Being in Australia we tend to receive new things a little late. Like movies, fashion, high-speed internet, legalized medicinal cannabis...
50 years and counting It all began back in ’67 when Moto Guzzi unveiled the V7 700, an air-cooled, 757cc...
The list consists of 5 motorcycles built by professional workshops and 5 by backyard builders. In many ways, this is...
But, dear reader, should you? Is it worth tracking down one of Yamaha’s cheerful little runabouts for your next custom...
Since it’s taken longer for these bikes to come out than the last season of Game of Thrones, here’s a quick...
But what are they actually like to own and work on? Are they a legitimately good bike, or do they...
Shortly after the release of the Kawasaki W650 in America Triumph launched their retro classic line. Sales gravitated to the...
As BMW Motorrad put it, the R9T Racer is “Style in the fast lane.” It’s a fitting statement for this...
“Yamaha and Abarth have created the XSR900 Abarth – a lightweight high-performance retro special whose authentic café racer design reflects...
In 2016 Triumph wiped their slate clean. They said fair well to the much loved Modern Classics range introduced back in 2000...
Triumph has well and truly hit the nail on the head with their new Modern Classics range. The British manufacturer...
After attending a series of motorcycle press launches that included the Ducati Sixty2, Triumph Bonneville T120, Moto Guzzi V9 Bobber...
“The Street Twin is our most contemporary, fun and accessible new Bonneville” – Triumph Motorcycles The Street Twin is the...
Out of all the bike reviews I’ve done, handing the keys back for the BMW R Nine T has been...
Our itinerary began with a presentation on the 2015 XJR1300 by Yamaha product manager Shun Miyazawa at the Deus Ex Machina...