BeMoto Blog Posts

With stints on MCN, RiDE and over a decade on Superbike magazine as the deputy editor, Dowdsy has been a freelance bike journalist for the last six years...

Yeah, yeah, we know what the grown-ups say. Wheelies: they're not big and they're not clever. Anyway. Done properly (on a closed road or track naturally), wheelies are a very fine test of a bike's performance...

​If we're getting a supercharged Kawasaki H2R Supersports bike, let's imagine what a street version could look like too. Originally created for Rapid Bikes magazine, this virtual supercharged H2 CGI gets a BeMoto update...

​Putting together a magazine group test can be a hilarious minefield, especially if it involves taking a load of bikes abroad…

The CX was dead, forgotten, history. Occasionally I’d see one propping up a mouldy tarpaulin in someone’s front garden, but then a hipster took a hacksaw to a CX500 seat unit, ripped out the battery and side panels, fitted wire spoke wheels, lagged the exhaust pipes, and the put the result on eBay with a £4000 price tag...

The connection between ‘man-made’ CO2 and global warming is, depending on who you believe, incontrovertible, tenuous or a fallacy. Either way it’s worth taking seriously, in a sort of green Pascal’s wager, because we’ve nothing to lose by accepting it and a whole planet to lose if we don’t...

The psychology of riding a bike is, literally, a grey matter area. There is no rule book precisely because not having rules is one of the rules. And no-one trains riders to recognise the kind of person they are, the kind of brains they have, and the kind of behaviour they exhibit on a bike...

Modifying the fuelling on engines is an essential part of any tuning process. The traditional way has been to use an aftermarket fuel injection computer, like the Dynojet Power Commander​, but ECU flashing is the latest in fuel-injection tuning, and they've been doing it with cars for years. But what is it and how does it work?