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Well this is the first in what I hope can become a new series of videos with the initial aim of doing one each month, but if there is some big news I think needs to be out there I may do additional short bulletins about my initial thoughts on any announcements. This won’t be […]

If you thought the whole dreadful saga of KTM had been buried with the rescue by Bajaj, we now have the news that staying out of court again maybe their latest hurdle they need to overcome. The headlines read “KTM’s trickery”, and “The motorcycle nobody wants”. And to be fair that sounded a bit harsh,

Today I’m going to say my piece on ride by wire throttles, because to be honest I’m sick of hearing sycophantic bullshit about why they are so brilliant and why we should all want them so badly. I don’t give a damn about cruise control or rider modes or any other electronic idiocity. Ive managed

Big, fast, brutally powerful motorcycles will always be the flagships of the industry, but most often we see them wrapped in bodywork, with a less than luxurious riding position, and a seat that would trouble Mahatma Gandhi. There is a simplicity to the classic naked road biased motorcycles that has always been the backbone of

Well after the last ZX Moto win in World Supersport the internet went mental, and now every man and his dog is talking about the man I first introduced to you back in January 2023 before Kove’s first Dakar. A lot has happened since then, and with the launch of ZX Moto we entered a

Ayup everyone, As the rider of a motorcycle, you are the one that is ultimately the one responsible for your own road safety. Always remember that a lack of experience makes it easy to make mistakes. You cannot buy experience, but there is a rule that is simple and effective and will always help give

This weekend ZX Moto and Evan Brothers Racing take on the historic Cathedral of Speed at Assen in the Netherlands as the next step in their journey towards winning the World Supersport Championship. After their historic wins at Portimao the whole internet was lit up by the story of Zhang Xue, but let us not

An Introduction We hear much talk both good and bad about the Chinese Motorcycle industry, but much of it is ill informed, and what we see in the west can be a very distorted view, so I decided to take a look at the Chinese industry from a global perspective rather than through the eyes

I wanted to do something more positive and now all the madness of EICMA and Motorcycle Live has died down a bit and the reality checks have had time to sink in, I thought I would look at some of the bikes you might have missed in the furore about all the new big things

This is just a short piece with the first major news for Dakar 2026. And I will make an announcement soon re Dakar 2026, so keep watch on the community tab or in the KoFi group, and try to remember to like the video and subscribe if you could. Some of you will remember I