Cruiser Bikes
Month: November 2008
Gear
Beem me up
With the Tourance 2 Suit, BMW Motorrad is offering a waterproof touring suit that it reckons has been optimised in almost all areas compared with its predecessor. BMW says the two-part suit, made from ultra-friction-resistant […]
Special Features
Bikes of ’08
Bikes & bits bouquets Great in ’08 So what did we really like in this past year? Rooly trooly? Tommy Hanlon Jnr once said that if he’d known he was going to last this long, […]
Cruiser Bikes
Kawasaki VN1700 Classic/Nomad/Voyager
Three sisters Has Kawasaki covered all the cruiser bases now? It’s always a nerve wrencher for a development team when their baby first hits the spotlight. Have we got it right? Did we miss something? […]
Travel
Phillip Island on three wheels
Mission MotoGP Riding to the island the Spyder way When I decided to take my Spyder to the MotoGP, I didn’t realise what an awesome trip was in store for me. I’ve travelled to the […]
Travel Stories
NSW: Tarana
The place to be Our obligatory visit to…a pub. If you wanted to conduct a graduate school in road surfaces, you wouldn’t have to go far from Sydney. The back road from Old Bowenfels, near […]
Special Features
State of Helmets
Headache time Where’d you get that hat? … and is it legal? By Guy Stanford, immediate past chairman of the Motorcycle Council of NSW and a member of the Australian Motorcycle Council’s Helmet Committee An […]
Travel Stories
Malaysia magic
Wanted Yes, that’s you – you’re wanted to ride one of South-East Asia’s most accessible destinations Malaysia is diversity itself. You will have read about our encounter with its countryside, culture and especially food in […]
Travel Stories
Queen Charlotte Drive
Lest darkness fall There are so many good roads in New Zealand it’s difficult to do them all in daylight Look at the top end of the South Island. That’s where all the fiordy-looking fingers […]
Blog
Road Rider Blog
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 […]