Rolling from a factory in Akashi, Japan, as you read this, is the most exciting mass-produced motorcycle in the world. Kawasaki has built its Super4, a 900cc four-cylinder four stroke...
Hello campers. I’ve been reading several past columns of mine and l must admit I laughed a hearty laugh. They're good ... and if they're not good at least they're...
Coming over that last hill on the outskirts of town, it seemed like the valley and the road wound on to the mountains in the distance. A cloudless sky, a...
To mark the 50th Anniversary of the release of Ducati's first production V-twin, the 750GT in 1971, Classic Two Wheels here presents Two Wheels magazine's original road test of the...
The hyperwave of overkill has been broken upon our shores for more than a year now. Cylinder overkill (numbers), size overkill (capacity), weight overkill, complexity overkill and certainly pricing overkill....
The new flagship of the small BMW fleet is really some motorcycle, as it ought to be for a cool $4500 on the road. It is new in several regards,...
Ducati has never claimed that its bikes are for everyone. Like the Italian exotic car industry, Ducati Meccanica S.p.A. does not build mediocre machinery for mediocre people. Lowest common denominators...
Reset your mind for the R1. Your preconceived notions of the ultimate sportsbike are a distant speck in its mirrors. Your favourite mountain road is suddenly tighter and shorter than...
On his descent from the conquest of Mt. Everest, Edmund Hillary is supposed to have greeted one of his colleagues with the disarming line, "We got the bastard!" Michael Doohan...
Two Wheels magazine devoted more pages to Valentino Rossi than any other GP racer because he was a superstar of the sport. Only Hailwood and Agostini had that same quality,...
Finally, I've made the break and bought a Japanese motorbicycle. I needed to make a journey to Queensland and decided the Francis Barnett wasn't up to the task. As the...
This was no jaunt; no weekend parade across two states to wash out the brain beans. This was an Open Road extravaganza. Some 5000 km in four weeks laid back...
A Two Wheels road test may mean testing a 750cc sportster or a 50cc step through. It is difficult to be objective, for we love motorcycles and motorcycling and it...
The little clearing in the scrub is perfect for the night’s camp. Plenty of firewood, no chance of human visitors, comfortable ground to roll the swag out on and a...
Of the hundreds of competitors at every Bathurst meeting, maybe a dozen leave the place with memories they'll always treasure -- images that are dragged out over pots of ale...