Strange things happen when you ride the 200 horsepower, 195 mph MV Agusta F4CC: the urge to move through space rapidly becomes irresistible, as does the desire to hear the ... Read More

Hotshoe racer Ruben Xaus (pictured here heedlessly hooning it on a Ducati Hypermotard) has signed with BMW to race their highly anticipated superbike, the S1000RR. Peter Mueller, BMW's Executive Vice ... Read More

We've previously reported on motorcycle deaths spiking after helmet law repeals, and a new report has echoed those findings. The American Journal of Public Health's research, as cited in the ... Read More

It's a natural temptation to crave a wicked fast sportbike or a heavyweight cruiser as your first motorcycle, but there are a number of reasons why that's a bad idea: ... Read More

I'm not sure if I file this under the How Come They Get All the Cool Stuff category or the Safety is the New Horsepower banner, but the following news ... Read More

It's big, heavy, and has more bells and whistles than any motorcycle ought to, but the Honda Gold Wing is also shockingly fun to ride fast. You probably won't comparison ... Read More

While I occasionally enjoy hopping the pond and lusting after foreign market bikes I can't have like the Honda Transalp and the Harley XR1200, it's hard to imagine living anywhere ... Read More

Behold the aesthetic beauty of the MV Agusta F4CC and feast your eyes on its sculpturally shaped carbon fiber body; focus on bespoke one-off details like its hand lever and ... Read More

After publicly pleading for some XR 1200 lovin' I had all but given up on seeing Harley's Europe-only bike stateside, but a recent Motorcycle.com news item sparked a glint of ... Read More

Voicesofsandiego.org suggests renewed interest in bikes have led to a recent climb in motorcycle theft, and that high gas prices are fanning the flames of thievery. According to the National ... Read More

The outrageous V4-powered V-Max might draw plenty of gawkers into Yamaha showrooms, but chances are the left sides of buyer's brains will be appeased by two new scooters: the 500cc ... Read More

Civilians are usually the ones getting attention for loud motorcycle exhausts, but this time the San Francisco Chronicle reports that the Oakland Police Department-- AKA "Rolling Thunder"-- has re-installed noisy ... Read More

Piaggo believes that scooters-- particularly their three-wheeled MP3 models-- are accessible to riders of any age, and they're sponsoring a 3,400 mile cross-country ride across the Lincoln Highway to prove ... Read More

Honda has injected plenty of MotoGP-inspired technology into their latest literbike, but they've taken a quantum leap with their recently announced Combined ABS system. Intended for sportibikes (and developed on ... Read More

Susan Carpenter of the LA Times is apologetic, for she bears some bad news for those wrongly under the impression that motorcycles are win-win regarding all things environmental. Though bikes ... Read More

One particularly unusual product that's been floating around the web lately is Rocketshields, a canopy intended to offer wind protection by attaching to a bike's pre-existing fastening points. The product ... Read More

It hardly feels like a week ago that I was soaking up the incredible sites and sounds of MotoGP racing in Italy (thanks to the cool folks at Red Bull), ... Read More

Today's leap in oil prices to $138 per barrel is hardly good news for anybody (especially the Dow Jones Industrial average, which reacted with a 400 point drop), but record ... Read More

Despite a tough first quarter, Harley-Davidson is apparently financially solvent enough to entertain buying most of the troubled Italian boutique builder MV Agusta, according to a Forbes story cited by ... Read More

The venue for yesterday's unveiling of the 2009 Yamaha Star V-Max spoke volumes of this bike's bad boy image: the USS Midway, a massive Navy aircraft carrier, was decked out ... Read More

A group of journalists assembled here in San Diego at the USS Midway to witness the unveiling of a new Yamaha Star Motorcycle... we were sworn to secrecy until the ... Read More

It's been almost a month since we welcomed the 2008 Honda Gold Wing to About.com's long term test garage, and following my first report the 'Wing took temporary residence at ... Read More

Greetings from Mugello, Italy, where local hero Valentino Rossi emerged victorious, much to the delight of an estimated crowd of 90,000. He was followed by Ducati Marlboro's Casey Stoner and ... Read More