At the Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials 2026, Canadian rider Liane Langlois reached 235.526 km/h (146.349 mph) with her sidecar outfit based on a Triumph Rocket III Roadster. That is around 16 km/h more than her record from the previous year, and the reason lies mainly in a change to the bodywork.
A study by the German Institute for Motorcycle Safety compared the estimated and actually ridden braking distances of 50 motorcyclists. The result is clearer than expected: depending on the speed, almost every second rider needed more distance than they thought.
BMW Motorrad has filed a patent for a newly designed rear swingarm intended for the coming superbike generation. What matters here is less the shape than the process used to make the part.
Fabio Quartararo no longer wants to help Yamaha with development for 2027 in their final year together. By his own account, the trigger is the manufacturer’s refusal to let him ride at the Pirelli test in Austria.
After the severe earthquake in Kyushu, Honda has been building complete motorcycles at its Kumamoto plant again since 24 August. The group’s most important two-wheeler factory in Japan stood still for around four weeks.
In Denmark it is prohibited to ride a motorcycle between waiting rows of cars. An association with close to 30,000 members wants to change that and is meeting clear resistance.
Two motorcyclists from the United States turned the trace of their navigation devices into a pen and drew the lettering „WRWR 2026“ right across the North American continent. Guinness World Records recognised the ride as the largest coordinated GPS drawing ever completed by a motorcycle duo.
A 19-year-old led police on a chase through Los Angeles for more than an hour, interrupted by two fuel stops and several phone calls. It ended with an arrest inside a recycling bin, and the suspicion that had triggered the whole pursuit could not be confirmed.
