While we are at best weeks away from being able to throw a leg over one and possibly months away from being able to test ride one I thought I’d throw together a bit of a desktop review. Take it from a long term Hyper owner who has a love/hate relationship with his bike – a number …
Seriously these photos are embarrassing, and don’t do the bike any justice, but I was caught out without my proper camera and have to share what some serious coin will get you in a hand made Italian super-trick wild pony. Can you remember the first time you saw the Hypermotard? I can. It stopped me …
For a time I hated my hyper, its impracticality, its tiny fuel tank, lack of storage, protection from the elements the list goes on. At one stage I was even considering selling it. I’m glad I didn’t because the latest round of mods have had me smiling ear to ear over and over again. …
Crash protection on a naked usually takes form in the way of sliders. Frame sliders and axle sliders being the most common. The good old Oggy Knob has become synonymous with most bikers at least knowing of them. I’m hoping that some simple axle sliders can really take the sting out of long down times …
Iusually do a big ride once a year with a group of mates, which has been going for six years now (dubbed ADR – Australia Day Ride) and fluctuates in numbers from the original six up to 18 last year (which was a bit ridiculous). This weekend is a new edition to the annual itinerary and has …
So it was today that I hit the road for a blast up some of my favourite Melbourne roads through Whittlesea into Yea; it’s maybe an hour and a half ride really once you get out of the traffic but it’s the superbly smooth wide single lane roads that wind and climb up into the …
It seems like forever ago that I was up at silly hours of the morning waiting for the news to finally hit – that there would be three new bikes in the family, all based on a new 820 donk and no 1100 effectively signing the end of the air-cooled era over to the Monster …