Bike
Suzuki V-Storm 650 ABS
ABS has become well and truly affordable Anti-lock braking is the way of the future. Not only is it an all-round good thing and becoming better, it’s also going to be required on almost all […]
Articles by sliang
Bike
Yamaha XT660R
Is the R the Aussie bike that the X wasn’t? Sometimes it’s hard for me to work out what the importers are thinking, but then I think I’m hardly Robinson Crusoe there. I remember riding […]
Travel Stories
‘Adventure’ touring
Last year in Jerusalem One missed corner = one adventure Words and photos: Beaker What started off as a nice leisurely Sunday morning ride for breakfast turned into a mini adventure, complete with dirt tracks, […]
Bike
Suzuki SFV650 Gladius
Bright Spark You don’t have to ride a big butch bike to have fun I made a huge mistake when Suzuki launched the progenitor of the Gladius, the SV650, in Australia. Much as I liked […]
Blog
Road Rider Blog
The Bear – Monday, November 30, 2009 Try selling to them… A few years ago, inspired by the large number of empty shops in Sydney’s CBD, I went to one of the more innovative bike […]
Gear
Marked man?
At first we thought this was a pre-production shot of a test helmet, but it isn’t. The Rjays Uni-composite SP2 R&D is meant to look like this. With its metallic gunmetal finish and, well, interesting […]
Cruiser Bikes
Harley’s Top Gun School
We sit in at a Harley-Davidson Technician Training Course to meet the latest class of Top Guns — or should that be Top Spanners? Charlie Palmer is a Harley-Davidson Global Trainer with “The Knowledge” oozing […]
Special Features
The Snowy Ride
The Snowy Ride is a motorcycle event run annually in the Alpine Region of NSW with the aim of involving motorcycle riders from all over Australia to raise money for Childhood Cancer Research. It is […]
Special Features
Pack for the long run
By repeated request: The secret (and not so secret) art of packing for the big trip. I’ve travelled with some packing experts in my time, believe me. One of them had his panniers chock-a-block with […]
Blog
Road Rider Blog
The Bear – Friday, November 06, 2009 Found a fascinating article from The Wall Street Journal that explains the way the bureaucracy keeps us in line. The Victorian crowd seems to be particularly expert at […]