Special Features
Fast Fashion Competition!
Enter our Fast Fashion competition and you could win a brand-new Piaggio ZIP 50 Scooter Calling anyone interested in designing motorcycle clothing, including fashion design students. If you think motorcyclists and scooter riders could look […]
Nolan helmets
Painful proof Should you replace your helmet after a crash? If a picture is worth a thousand words then a demonstration must be worth a whole novel. For years I have been telling people to […]
Spencer, NSW
What’s in a name? And who cares, as long as the bacon and egg rolls are good? A rose is a rose is a rose, according to Gertrude Stein. But is a Spencer a spencer […]
Sydney Motorcycle and Scooter Show
Oh! Darling! Good show, old chap(s) Should you ever be in the position to choose somewhere to hold a show in Sydney, go for the Convention & Exhibition Centre at Darling Harbour. Compared with the […]
Wet Weather Gear test 2
Suits and boots – will they keep you dry? You read about the supposedly waterproof gloves in ARR #51. That was the appetiser, this is the main course Were you surprised that several pairs of […]
Two’s company
The secrets of pillioning How you and your passenger can make two-up riding work Perhaps welling up inside you is the urge to share the joy of motorcycling with a loved one or friend. Perhaps […]
Destinations
A modest proposal We’re just going to go through some of our favourite bike destinations: do tag along! I was answering a note from my friend Sian Gillanders CKDNZ* in New Zealand the other day. […]
Steve Campbell- Indonesia Part 1
Sumbawa, east of Bali Many of us dream of riding the many islands of Indonesia. Steve Campbell did it One minute I was up then, in the blink of an eye, I was down. I […]
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 […]