Special Features
Bike Handling
Get it up! Ooops! You dropped it. Here’s how to pick it up again. Hands up anyone who hasn’t dropped a motorcycle. Okay, that’s three of you. The rest of us have tipped our bikes […]
Articles by sliang
Bike
Kawasaki KLR650
Hanging tough Want more bike for your hard-earned? Kawasaki’s KLR650 delivers Times are tough, and your next new bike will need to deliver more bang per buck than ever, right? Right. So are there any […]
Gear
Slick indeed
The Revolution is here, according to Draggin Jeans. It has introduced Slix, the first slim-fitting, protective motorcycle jean with a leather look. Slix have a unique leather look and feel but breathe and move like […]
Gear
Wear your love
Love classic bike engines? Now you can wear one! Bandicoot Trailers have launched a range of top quality T-shirts featuring beautiful photographs of classic bike engines from top international photographer Daniel Peirce. The T-shirt images […]
Special Features
The Fuel Truth
Horror story! You’ll never ‘just fill ’er up’ again after you’ve read this report by Stuart Woodbury Many riders are not fully informed about the main thing that makes their bikes go – fuel. […]
Travel Stories
Ah, Queensland
Perfect one day… …full of discriminatory legislation the next. We won’t go into detail about Queensland’s raft of what could be seen as anti-motorcycle legislation, but it’s hard to avoid the impression that it is […]
Special Features
Davo does distance
Iron Butt Secrets How does Australia’s best-known long distance rider do it? Photos: Lou Martin, Davo It’s almost 11pm, I left home at midnight. That was Queensland and I am now almost to Adelaide, SA. […]
Cruiser Bikes
Aussie bobber
Not chopping, bobbing As William Shakespeare once said, “There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy, Horatio.” One of them is the bobber, and here is a beautiful […]
Bike
Aprilia NA 850 Mana
Something wicked There have been automatics before. Will this one succeed? Among Polynesian and Melanesian peoples, mana is a supernatural force or power. Maoris believe mana may be either good or wicked. Aprilia obviously thinks […]
Gear
BaaadyMates
Time to upgrade your undies, and more. Following the successful launch of Woolerina’s BodyMate range of Australian made premium quality merino products, it has added new items for 2008. Woolerina’s policy of selecting its own […]