Articles by Mike Ryan

The annual international Red Dot Awards are one of the biggest and most pretiogious international design competitions. At this year's event, held in Essen, Germany, the Ducati 1199 Panigale was judged the "best of the best" award for style, innovation and technology, not just in motorcycles, but across all product design.

Ducati's Multistrada 1200 has taken victory in the famous Pikes Peak "Race to the Clouds" hill climb event in Colorado, USA, for the fourth year in succession. In the saddle was French privateer racer, Bruno Langlois, who finished third in class last year aboard a Ducati Streetfighter.

After being discussed, debated and drooled over since making its debut back in 2009, the reborn Norton motorcycle marque is finally coming to Australia, thanks to Fraser Motorcycles.

In recent years, Benelli has been best known here for their big bore naked and adventure tourers. Now, the Italian brand has taken a dip in the LAMS market with the BN600.

Polaris have announced the release of the Ranger 900XP, which brings the Polaris range of off-road utility and side-by-side vehicles to 16 models.

We decided "breaking tradition" was an appropriate name for this custom Harley. Strange, you may say, as at first glance, this retro bobber may have "tradition" written all over it, but when you know who built it, the name we've given it makes a lot more sense!

They're a stalwart at a number of motorcycling and charity events around Australia, but the duo known as Tex and Bundy will have a new look thanks to a new set of wheels following a recently-announced sponsorship with Moto Guzzi.

Rossi is back! Yamaha Factory Racing's Jorge Lorenzo made all the news before the Dutch TT at Assen, but his team mate, Valentino Rossi, made the headlines in the race itself, breaking through for his first win in the premier class since 2010.

Repsol Honda's Dani Pedrosa has been handed a valuable advantage in the race for the 2013 MotoGP world championship, following a crash from main rival Jorge Lorenzo that will rule him out of this Saturday's Dutch TT at Assen.

When Stewart met Jens and Kedo, and Kenny, and Steve, and Luke, and Michael, and Mike, and Jim - and all with a German connection - makes this project build sound like one of those "exotic" films out of Europe. But rest assured, we're actually talking about a custom bike build; one that crosses continents - and is very G-rated!

Harley-Davidson has extended its range of MotorClothes apparel with the release of a new range of official H-D open face helmets.

Despite the 2013 MotoGP season being a tight battle between the Hondas and Yamahas, Honda Racing Corporation (HRC) say there's no rush to bring their RC213V to the racetrack this season.