Italy is waiving vehicle tax on motorcycles in 2027, with no limit on power output or displacement. The exemption applies to one vehicle per person only, however, and anyone who owns a small car gets nothing for the motorcycle.
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Pedro Acosta topped both MotoGP practice sessions for the Grand Prix of Austria on Friday and put his rivals on alert. Several factors behind KTM’s fastest time come together precisely at the Red Bull Ring.
To mark the Nürburgring’s 100th birthday, BMW Motorrad is launching the M 1000 RR, the M 1000 R and the M 1000 XR as limited special models in Nürburgring Green. Each of the three motorcycles will be built 100 times worldwide and should be available to order from 19 October 2026.
Ducati has published the full specifications and the price of the Desmo450 SM. The brand’s first race supermoto costs from 13,290 euros in Germany, weighs 109 kilograms ready to ride without fuel and reaches selected European dealers from December 2026.
With the VARG SM Sköll, Stark Future is launching a numbered special edition of its electric supermoto, of which only 500 units will be built worldwide. New are titanium parts, the full ALPHA power output and a look in which almost every component is black.
Motorcyclists follow rules that appear in no law book and are still observed almost everywhere. From the wave and tapping the helmet to the riding order within a group, it is a system built entirely on reciprocity.
The first test drives for a driverless taxi service begin in Munich in the coming weeks, and other operators are already on the road there. For motorcyclists that pushes one question to the front, and there is still no solid European answer to it: how reliably does this technology detect a single-track vehicle?
Spain’s traffic authority DGT now has 130 Veloláser devices in service, barely bigger than a forearm and working without a flash. Anyone riding through Spain on holiday should know how these devices measure, where they are placed and which new systems are being added in 2026 and 2027.
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