Nobody gets into motorcycles hoping to buy a pickup truck. You bought the bike because it was the cheap and interesting way to get around, and then at some point you need something that can carry the bike rather than be the bike. That purchase usually lands at a bad moment, right after you have spent real money on tires or a track day entry, which is the main argument for doing it cheaply. A hauler is also one of […] The post Buying a Bike Hauler Without Spending Bike Money on It appeared first on webBikeWorld . ...

This week, we have a great run-up of news to keep you busy: Harley-Davidson has approved a Q3 cash dividend of $0.1875 per share, leaving some riders wondering where the long-term R&D budget is headed. KTM has pulled the sheets off their brand new 2027 300 EXC HARDENDURO, complete with factory-grade armor, closed-cartridge WP forks, and the usual pure competition two-stroke grit. Kawasaki is teasing the return of the supercharged Ninja H2 and we think it is headed for EICMA […] The post Harley-Davidson Balances Between Business and Bikes, New H2 Brewing at Kawasaki appeared first on webBikeWorld . ...

Between 1958 and 1974, one small factory in the Italian town of Cascina Costa won the premier class of motorcycle Grand Prix racing seventeen years running. No other manufacturer has come close to that streak before or since. Mike Hailwood’s four consecutive 500cc World Championships sat right in the middle of it, the peak years of a partnership between one extraordinarily gifted rider and one relentlessly ambitious company. Neither the man nor the factory ever quite reached those heights again […] The post Mike Hailwood and the MV Agusta Dynasty appeared first on webBikeWorld . ...

The Suzuki GSX-R750 made an immediate impact when it reached dealerships for the 1985 model year. Before it arrived, building a faster motorcycle usually meant one thing, bolting a bigger engine into a heavier frame and accepting the extra weight as the cost of doing business. Suzuki’s engineers flipped that approach, cutting weight first and treating extra power as almost secondary. The result weighed less than some 600s of the era, won races in its first season, and created an […] The post The Suzuki GSX-R750 Invented the Race Replica appeared first on webBikeWorld . ...

By the early 1990s, Ducati had already proven it could win. Raymond Roche took the World Superbike title in 1990, and Doug Polen backed it up in 1991 and 1992, both riding the factory’s V-twins. Then Scott Russell took a Kawasaki past them in 1993, leaving a small and financially shaky Italian manufacturer without the one thing that gave it any credibility against the Japanese giants. The answer was the 916, a motorcycle so complete that it won the title […] The post The Ducati 916: The Bike That Saved Ducati and Redefined Sportbike Design appeared first on webBikeWorld . ...

A used motorcycle can be a very good buy. It can also be somebody else’s problem with a fresh set of grips on it, and photos in a listing will not tell you which one you are looking at. That is the reason to run the VIN before you go anywhere. A VIN check pulls title and odometer records tied to that specific bike. It usually costs a few dollars and takes a couple of minutes. Why a Motorcycle Hides […] The post What a VIN Check Tells You Before You Buy a Used Motorcycle appeared first on webBikeWorld . ...

After a motorcycle crash, the bike usually gets most of the attention. It is easy to look at broken fairings, bent bars, scraped cases, or a twisted front end and assume the motorcycle tells the whole story. It does not. The helmet, jacket, gloves, boots, pants, armor, camera footage, road marks, debris field, and damage pattern on the bike can all help explain what actually happened. For riders, that matters because motorcycle crashes are often misunderstood. A driver may say […] The post What Helmet, Gear, and Motorcycle Damage Can Reveal After a Crash appeared first on webBikeWorld . ...