Blog

The Bear – Monday, July 20, 2009 Here’s an interesting idea from Motorcycling Australia, which now styles itself “Australia’s peak body for motorcyclists”. Has anyone told the Motorcycle Council about this? Anyway, here’s a quick […]

The Bear – Monday, November 16, 2009 It’s cold in the motorcycle business, but not all that cloudy The biggest motorcycle show in the world is off and running again, and there is no reason […]

Mick Matheson – Monday, March 04, 2013 You’ll be relieved to see that we’re cranking the kickstarter of our website at last, preparing to fire her up again and get rolling. Not before time, we […]

The Bear – Wednesday, July 15, 2009 No doubt you’ve noticed the travel stories about America that run in both ARR and Cruiser. We’ve had a mixed reaction to them, with some readers dying to […]

The Bear – Friday, October 02, 2009 Chinese utes have done badly in safety tests. Nobody tests bikes. Australia’s peak motoring organisation, the Australian Automobile Association, has called on new car buyers to ensure safety […]

The Bear – Thursday, March 25, 2010 Ah, poetry to soothe the savage beast Bill Dettmer from Melbourne sent me this wonderful pastiche on one of our best-loved poems. I couldn’t resist sharing it with […]

The Bear – Tuesday, February 22, 2011 You often read about the reasons why various people ride their bikes. There are many good ones, and I reckon they are all correct – for those particular […]

The Bear – Monday, May 11, 2009 Well, on Tuesday the 28th of April we launched Cruiser+Trike in style at Sydney specialist bike shop Deus ex Machina – incidentally the people who built our cover […]

The Bear – Wednesday, August 19, 2009 Maybe it’s a side effect of advancing age, but I enjoy the ramblings of the Republican American writer P.J. O’Rourke. Unlike most conservatives he comes up with quite […]

The Bear – Thursday, July 23, 2009 You may have noticed over the past few days some new buttons have popped up on the blog and new item pages. The buttons under ‘Share this’ help […]