Australian Motorcycle News

Australian Motorcycle News covers all things motorcycling from around the world, featuring new-model releases as well as comprehensive bike comparisons and race reports in every issue.

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Australian Motorcycle News

ROYAL ENFIELD BEAR 650 • RE’s twin-cylinder street scrambler busted in full detail ahead of launch

RIDING SHOTGUN!

TORQUE LIFT FOR 2024 AFRICA TWIN

RALLY UP!

FRESH 1200 SCRAMBLERS FOR 2024 • New, cheaper Triumph 1200 X and updated 1200 XE versions

SUB-$10K SCRAMBLER

BMW R 12 CRUISER

BRIEFS. • YOUR QUICK FIX

HONDA’S ACTIVE BODYWORK ALERT • Moving panels create tactile feedback for rider-assist systems

916-TRIBUTE PANIGALE ON THE WAY

THE YEAR WAS… 1989

THE OLDEST RACER ON EARTH • Les Harris first threw a leg over a racebike 70 years ago. Last month, the now 98-year-old rode into history

ACCESS.

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE • Track invasion at the ’98 Australian GP after Doohan takes the flag. Spot the five changes Fred has made to the image, email us your answers (and your postal address!) and you could win a neck sock.

MULTIMATE • Meet Ducati’s new 2024 V4 S Grand Tour, the ultimate fully optioned Multistrada

EXTRA! EXTRA! • What makes the GT so (many) grand

TOUR DE FORCE

The ASYLUM SEEKER • The KTM 890 Duke R is an insane corner-carving hoon bike – lunatics need only apply!

MIDSIZED MADHATTERS

CHALLENGER! • Ducati’s path to its current dominance in MotoGP began exactly 20 years ago with the debut of its 990cc V4 Desmosedici at the 2003 season-opening Japanese GP

DESMO-OTTO?! • Doesn’t have the ring to it, does it?

ODDS ON! • The MotoGP World Championship is headed Down Under to put on what is always an edge of your seat spectacular. We name the probables, the possibles and dark horses with the ability to shine at the world’s most picturesque grand prix circuit

PODIUM PROBABLES

DARK HORSES

PODIUM PROBABLES

PODIUM DARK HORSES

PODIUM PROBABLES

PODIUM DARK HORSES

APPLIED SCIENCE SIMON SAYS … • Former grand prix winner turned eagle-eyed pitlane MotoGP commentator Simon Crafar gives us the inside word of what he spotted at the all-important test in Misano

HONDA

YAMAHA

DUCATI

APRILIA

KTM

GET WITH THE PROGRAM • We’re all heading to the Island to see two-wheeled action, but there’s plenty to do inside and outside the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit

“WINNING AT THE ISLAND, IT WAS UNREAL!” • It’s been nine years since Jack Miller tasted the winning Prosecco in front of home fans. We catch up with the talented Aussie ahead of his first home race on KTM’s RC16

“YOU ONLY GET TO DO IT ONCE A YEAR” • Ahead of his home GP, Joel Kelso is putting all the talk of his future to one side and focusing on a maiden podium in front of family, friends and fans

“THIS IS WHERE THE HARD WORK STARTS AND I’M BACK TO SQUARE ONE” • Meet the 18-year-old Aussie whose childhood dreams came true with a recent phone call from a certain Herve Poncharal…

STARS COLLIDING • The defection of Marc Marquez from Honda to Ducati next year will bring together two of MotoGP’s most successful players in the eight-time world champ and Ducati technical mastermind Gigi Dall’Igna. We grab a yarn with the latter

EBBS AND FLOWS • The Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit is picturesque, unpredictable and devastatingly fast, a place where pinnacles are achieved and dreams broken. We wrap up the highs and lows

MAGNIFICENT SEVEN • Seven riders who realised world championship success at Phillip Island

M-GEE! • The corner formerly known as the MG Hairpin is tight,...