Road Rider Magazine » Column https://www.roadrider.com.au Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:25:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 Yamaha launches MT-09 with auto gearbox https://www.roadrider.com.au/blog/yamaha-launches-mt-09-with-auto-gearbox/ https://www.roadrider.com.au/blog/yamaha-launches-mt-09-with-auto-gearbox/#comments Mon, 26 Aug 2024 23:37:24 +0000 https://www.roadrider.com.au/?p=9853 Y-AMT stands for ‘Yamaha Automated Manual Transmission’. Let’s leave the contradiction inherent in ‘automated manual’ to one side and focus on the new MT-09 Y-AMT and whether the new technology is any good and if [...]

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]]> https://www.roadrider.com.au/blog/punished-over-and-over-again/feed/ 0 The clutch is doomed https://www.roadrider.com.au/blog/the-clutch-is-doomed/ https://www.roadrider.com.au/blog/the-clutch-is-doomed/#comments Mon, 13 May 2024 06:24:04 +0000 https://www.roadrider.com.au/?p=9524 Even if the world doesn’t move to an entirely electric-driven motorcycling future, I feel the clutch is doomed. Elsewhere in this magazine you can read about the Honda E-Clutch, an innovative way to eliminate the [...]

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]]> https://www.roadrider.com.au/blog/the-clutch-is-doomed/feed/ 0 CHOOSE YOUR ADVENTURE (ARR175) https://www.roadrider.com.au/blog/choose-your-adventure/ https://www.roadrider.com.au/blog/choose-your-adventure/#comments Thu, 30 Nov 2023 20:53:17 +0000 https://www.roadrider.com.au/?p=8571 “Mate, if I’d been by myself I might have pushed the thing over and set fire to it — but all my mates were having the same problems.” I was talking to a bloke I’ve [...]

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]]> https://www.roadrider.com.au/blog/choose-your-adventure/feed/ 0 Don’t take riding for granted https://www.roadrider.com.au/blog/dont-take-riding-granted/ https://www.roadrider.com.au/blog/dont-take-riding-granted/#comments Tue, 06 Jun 2023 22:33:45 +0000 https://www.roadrider.com.au/?p=8396 I have mates still riding in the 70s… blokes who have been motorcyclists for decades, probably since they were kids or teenagers. Blokes who never stopped riding because of a wedding, mortgage or kids. Blokes [...]

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]]> https://www.roadrider.com.au/blog/dont-take-riding-granted/feed/ 0 Money, vehicles and the Road Toll https://www.roadrider.com.au/blog/money-vehicles-and-the-road-toll/ https://www.roadrider.com.au/blog/money-vehicles-and-the-road-toll/#comments Sun, 21 May 2023 22:48:58 +0000 https://www.roadrider.com.au/?p=8385 I’ve been a little surprised, over the last year or so, at the lack of vitriol from the media about the road toll, especially in the wake of some serious crashes resulting in multiple deaths [...]

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