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LIFE AS A DAKAR RALLY Mechanic

Life as a Dakar Rally mechanic is as far from an office routine as you can possibly imagine. Five Minutes With Monster Energy Honda Team Chief Mechanic Hide Hanawa

Garage Built SHOW ‘19

The Garage Built Show 2019 brought to you by Husqvarna Motorcycles is done and dusted and we are still reeling from another fantastic day.

STILL A WAY TO GO

First ride on BMW Motorrad’s prototype E-Roadster, as part of a privileged visit to BMW Group’s top-secret Miramas Test Centre in the South of France.

BIKING GERIATRICITY IN THE GARDENROOT

We all living longer nowdays, I told Priscilla. Important, for us old Toppies.

3 WHEELS ON MY WAGON

This year Judy and I planned to be away on the bike for 30 days or more, fishing in some of the most beautiful spots in SA, so quite a lot of planning goes into this.

You Can't Rush A Good Thing

A Closer Look At The triumph Speed Twin

Yamaha Tracer 900 GT

Introduced in 2015, the Yamaha MT-09 was a bike that combined performance and style with all-day comfort. Then came the MT-09 Tracer which added long-distance practicality to the mix.

Indian FTR 1200

What is an American motorcycle? That’s easy to answer, surely; an enormous cruiser, thunderous v-twin engine, gaudy design, basic engineering? Yeah, that pretty much just about sums it up.

Ducati Scrambler 1100

Whether you like it or not, you can’t deny that the Scrambler has been a big success for Ducati. In 2015, the year the Scrambler went on sale, Ducati sales went up 22%, with the Scrambler accounting for 16,000 units out of the total of 54,800 bikes sold. It was the first time Ducati had registered enough sales for one model to get them into the top ten in the world.

Corona Suzuki TL1000R: Problem Child

First and only track test ever made by any journalist of the 1998 works Suzuki TL1000R V-twin Superbike, a project terminated by the factory after just a single year of competition

Cal Crutchlow Talks MotoGP Speed

Cal Crutchlow Talks MotoGP Speed

Road Test Bakker BMW K1600 Gs

Special K On Two Wheels

Suzuki SV650 ABS - Playful Simplicity

Suzuki SV650 ABS

The Perfect Ride; Possible or Not?

Road Test Indian Chieftain classic.

Three's A Crowd

EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED WITH THE YAMAHA NIKEN

Zonked In Zululand

Winter’s behind us, but winter touring was different on classic machines back in the early eighties.

The Desert Mouse

Matt “Hollywood” Smith talks local Off-road, Enduro and Adventure and a little tarmac

The Bokkeveld Tour

Strange, how only after the fourth wingman couldn’t accompany me on my proposed spring tour through the beautiful Bokkeveld Mountains, did it dawn on me that it was a good idea to go it alone.

Suzuki Hayabusa

There is something rather fascinating about bikes that have been built with a single purpose in mind; bikes that are so focussed that they are uncompromising. Is it selfishness? Is it limiting to their sales success? Or are they engineering perfection? The Suzuki Hayabusa is one such bike.

Staying On Top Of The World

Jonathan Rea talks longevity in the racing elite

Lands End

EDINBURGH TO JOHN O’GROATS TO LAND’S END TO LONDON DOM DEMPERS AND ANDREW BONAMOUR

MotoGP - Michael Scott Pit Lane

Michael Scott - a regular in the MotoGP paddock since 1984 and familiar to motorcycle racing fans worldwide through his best selling books on the likes of Wayne Rainey and Barry Sheene has been covering MotoGP since long before it was MotoGP. Remember two-strokes? Scott does.

Benelli 502C Road Test Diavel In Disguise

First test in Italy ridden along the Adriatic coast from its Pesaro factory of Benelli’s latest twin-cylinder 500cc parallel-twin Cruiser, developed in Italy but built in China by owner Qianjiang

Honda GL 1800 Gold Wing

Tour to Umdloti

Fresh Off The Press

Bringing you all the happenings in and around the motorcycling industry

Enduro Eolution In The Kingdom of The Sky

Husqvarna 2020 Enduro Range

Akrapovic Makes Colin Edwards

ITS FIRST TWO-WHEEL BRAND AMBASSADOR

A Closer Look Soekoe Moto Bicycle.co

Given the fashion these days for everything ‘retro’, not least from a growing number of the major motorcycle manufacturers, it was perhaps slightly inevitable that we would have to travel ever further back in time for inspiration for new models.

Yamaha YZF R3 - Dressed To Impress

The updated 2019 Yamaha YZF-R3 grabs your attention from the very first glance.

The Emperors Clothes

Talking Valentino’s MotoGP leather suit.