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...
Back in the dim, distant years of my youth I immersed myself in the written word. This was due to the fact that my now unfortunately deceased uncle possessed a...
Guzzi’s V7 Sport is close to the perfect motorcycle. And that’s allowing that the bike’s general specifications will give it appeal only to a smallish number of riders, and that...
Speed Triple. It's a name which begged to be used at some stage. Whether this is the Triumph which deserves it or not is another matter. Perhaps some model more...
Let the record show that the Team Avon Kawasaki Z1 of Jim Budd and Roger Heyes won the fastest and closest-ever Castrol Six Hour Race. And that the second placed...