BeMoto Blog Posts

The passing of the model years makes us a little sad, because it means that more and more of our favourite bikes will seem a little shabbier, a little greyer, a little bit less desirable. But what makes a bike look old?...

Do you feel the need for speed? In December 2019 Kawasaki's YouTube channel fueled rumours of a possible return of the iconic GPZ900R. If you’re wondering what it might possibly look like, wonder no more as we’ve taken a best guess with our digital rendering...

Most of us know what kind of engine we have in our bikes – the different characters of a single, twin, triple or four (or more!) cylinder motor are much more obvious than they might be in a car. But what’s best? Which motors are great and which suck...

Alan 'Dowdsy' Dowds has been a bike journalist for 25 years, he gets to borrow the latest and greatest bikes from all the big manufacturers, but what bikes does he actually own in his multi-bike garage...

In 2020 we’ve got supercharged engines, electric suspension, wheelie control, carbon wheels, aerodynamic wings and 220bhp litre-class road bikes! But if you’d showed me that list 20 years ago, I’d have been a teeny bit disappointed...

A bike helmet is the most important bit of safety kit a rider has – it’s also the only one which needs to be worn by law. And now, the organisation behind safety regulations for helmets is updating its rules to keep riders even safer...

Welding – dull industrial process or pure metal art? We have a look at the tech and science behind properly joining up bits of metal – and see how it’s applied to make an exhaust can for our Yamaha MT-10...

MotoE has just finished its first season of racing as a MotoGP support series. Our man Alan Dowds got a spin on a MotoE Ego Corsa Electric Race Bike at Valencia – here’s what he reckoned…