BeMoto Blog Posts

You’ve got a pristine bike in the garage but you’ve also got the trackday bug. The sensible thing to do would be to buy a trackday bike that doesn’t risk your pride and joy but will hold its own in all groups on the day. The good news is there are bargains to be had if you’re after a bike that’s mechanically sound but features the odd battle scar...

It looked like nothing less than a road-legal 250GP machine, with upside-down forks, enormous gull-arm swingarm, huge expansion chambers and dual-stinger silencers. A full fairing yelled out the Suzuki engineers' plan – "Made with the Grand Prix spirit", no less...

KTM's high tech 1290 GT isn't the cheapest or most luxurious sports tourer, but it's probably the fastest and definitely the most fun. The result is a top-spec, hellishly rapid, sporty-handling sports tourer that KTM say is at home in the corners as it is on the straights...

In a market dominated by the four-stroke motor, it’s easy to forget that big strokers once roamed the roads, leaving beautiful plumes of smoke in their wake. Originally created for Performance Bikes magazine, this virtual RD500 CGI gets a BeMoto update for 2016...

Famous 50 years ago for Mods and Rockers brawling on Bank Holidays ('Sawdust Caesars​​' as they became known), Margate is once again the destination of bikers on the 30th May 2016 for the 8th Annual Ace Cafe Margate Meltdown...

Soichiro Honda himself declared it the perfect engine for powering a motorbike (he hated two-strokes and famously compared the engine to a bamboo rod with holes in). But the reason the V4 came to be Honda’s favoured engine has a more practical origin...

The bike that kicked off the 600cc Sportsbike sector, also known as 'Supersports', was the Kawasaki GPZ600R (also named the Ninja 600). The GPZ600R was launched in 1985 and was the first of the breed....

The companies’ founder, life-long petrol head and engineer Soichiro Honda, launched the first proper Honda motorcycle, the D-Type (Dream) 2-stroke 98cc in 1949. The company has consistently been the largest manufacturer of motorcycles since the ‘60s...