Bike

Still the way to fly The Honda GoldWing’s airbag doesn’t look elegant when it’s deployed but what price your life? There are two reasons you do not ever want to see the airbag on your […]

MOTOM 98T You can beam this one up, Scotty Born in the same year as I, Motom didn’t prove to be quite as resilient. It died in the early 1960s, but then again there was […]

What can you do with your Hornet? Heaps… Ah, bless the quiet years in model development! Honda hasn’t had a great swag of new models recently, so the thoughts of the MPE gang in Campbellfield […]

The Grudge To know it is to, well, find out for yourself! It would be fair to say that I had a grudge against this Yamaha before I even threw a leg over it. I […]

Swing low Short and sweet, that’s Yamaha’s Virago replacement The Virago range made many friends for Yamaha, and some of them are still wondering why the bikes had to be replaced with the V-Star range. […]

Lucky 13? Brendan Nelson almost sounds as if he’s sorry he ponied up for his Hayabusa Photos: Keith Muir, BMW Factory, Brendan Nelson Europe’s largest motorcycle manufacturer was using this year’s Superbikes at the Island […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Bone China Pared back and slim – and part Chinese This may sound silly, but the bike I’ve ridden that felt closest to the XCountry was the original DT-1 Yamaha. Yes, I know it wasn’t […]