BeMoto Blog Posts

Every few years, there has to be some new bike tech for us to get excited about. It's been the same since forever. Some of these leaps forward are genuinely great, and have changed biking. Some – not so much. So what category are gas forks in?

It was post WW2 when the Scooter really caught on. In 1946 the Piaggio Vespa was launched, instantly becoming a sales success and setting the standard, closely followed in 1947 by the Lambretta. The Scooter offered a very affordable form of transport for the masses...

​Over the years there have been a number of engine configurations of 250cc to 500cc sportsbikes, powered by both two-stroke and four-stroke engines. The two-stroke 250cc Sportbikes were always powered by twin cylinder engines and all four-stroke incarnations were originally in-line 4 cylinder screamers...

A highly strung two-stroke makes very little power in the lower rev range with pick up often being very slow, however as soon as the revs of the engine hit the 'powerband' power comes in with quite a kick...

The 750cc Sportsbike can be traced back to 1969 when Honda introduced the CB750; it was a revolution, featuring an in-line four-cylinder four-stroke engine producing a claimed 67bhp and capable of hitting a top speed of around 120mph...

The first Suzuki Hayabusa hit 194mph; a good 10-15mph faster than its rival the Honda CBR 1100 Blackbird. Interestingly, the name Hayabusa is Japanese for ‘peregrine falcon’ a bird that preys on blackbirds!

In our dreams our garages are full-on WSB-spec palaces, with wall-to-wall Snap-On tools, and all the Motul products we can eat. But like most folk, we have a selection of 'must-have' little helper tools. Usually nothing fancy, but they get us out of a hole on a regular basis...

In 1977, aged 9, Simon got a lift on his brother’s Suzuki AP50. He wrote about it the next day at school and, somehow, it turned into a career...