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Radar Cruise Control Is Coming to Every Bike. Here’s Why.

Radar Cruise Control Is Coming to Every Bike. Here’s Why.

Radar-assisted cruise control has jumped from flagship tourers to the mainstream in barely three years, and the reasons behind its rapid spread…

The Safety Tech Quietly Saving Riders’ Lives

The Safety Tech Quietly Saving Riders’ Lives

Away from the horsepower headlines, a generation of electronic safety systems is doing the unglamorous work of keeping riders upright — and…

What’s Happening to Used Motorcycle Prices?

What’s Happening to Used Motorcycle Prices?

The pandemic-era boom that sent second-hand values soaring has finally broken, and the correction is reshaping what riders can afford — here…

The Best A2 Licence-Friendly Bikes Right Now

The Best A2 Licence-Friendly Bikes Right Now

The A2 category no longer means settling for a stripped-out beginner bike — today’s restricted machines are stylish, genuinely capable and built…

Why Naked Bikes Are the Smartest Buy in 2025

Why Naked Bikes Are the Smartest Buy in 2025

In a market obsessed with fairings, screens and adventure-bike posturing, the humble naked bike quietly does everything better — and I am…

Why I Still Ride an Analogue Motorcycle

Why I Still Ride an Analogue Motorcycle

Everyone keeps asking when I will upgrade to something with riding modes and a colour screen, and my answer never changes —…

Horsepower Isn’t Everything (and Here’s the Proof)

Horsepower Isn’t Everything (and Here’s the Proof)

After thirty years of testing bikes for a living, I can tell you the number on the spec sheet almost never predicts…

The Myth of the One Bike That Does It All

The Myth of the One Bike That Does It All

The industry has sold us the fantasy of a single machine that conquers commutes, canyons and continents equally well, and after a…