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MotoGP champion Marc Marquez unveiled the 2017 RC213V during Repsol Honda's team launch in Jakarta. Can he relive the magisterial dominance of 2016 with this new bike? That remains to be seen, but for now we can take a look at what has changed and what has been updated. Overall, the bike remains true to the essence of the...

How much power is too much power? That is the question. Manufacturers are pushing the boundaries of technology and that’s resulted in riders getting access to insane amount of power available at the twist of a throttle. Will the horsepower game ever end? I doubt. As we progress from internal combustion engines to electric motors, the quintessential human tendency...

Let's look at what it means to be a motorcyclist and where motorcycling is going? This is a lot different than who motorcyclists are. If you want my humble opinion; and I'm thinking you probably do; motorcycling in its purest form is about you and the road and your bike; that's it. Everything else is just that “everything else”. But...

If you follow the custom-bike scene in the Middle East you would undoubtedly know of the Bikers Cafe Build-Off. Introduced by Bikers Cafe - Dubai in 2015, it showcased three amazing builders like Moto, 86 CYCLES and Deus Arabia. This exciting event paved the way for other budding-builders to throw their creativity into the mix and see what they can...

During the mid 1960’s, the Japanese dominated the UK motorcycle market. Japanese motorcycles were cheaper, more reliable and had modern styling. British motorcycles on the other hand; were still based on almost thirty-year-old engineering and technology and had dated and unappealing styling. This caused the majority of British motorcycle manufacturers to struggle and Associated Motorcycle Company (AMC); the owner...

It’s been 50 years since Burt Munro took his Indian Scout Streamliner to the Bonneville Salt Flats and made history – a story immortalised in the feature film, The World’s Fastest Indian, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins. This August, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Munro’s iconic land speed record, Indian Motorcycle is teaming up with Kiwi road racer Lee Munro,...

It’s in the Swedish character to let their work do all the talking, unless you happen to be the effervescent King Zlatan. Husqvarna is Swedish, actually was Swedish, before changing many ownerships and manufacturing sites, yet it still retains that Swedish essence even after a century of being in the business. It still believes in letting performance do the...

Harley Davidson recently held the international press launch for the 2017 H-D Street Rod 750 in Marbella, Spain, with Moto journalists attending from around the world in the weeklong event during the last week of April 2017. The press launch officially started with an informative presentation by H-D’s Styling Manager Frank Savage and Jeff Strunk from Motorcycle Product Planning who...

I recently visited Italy’s southern region of Apulia to participate in the official annual meeting of Moto Guzzi World Clubs and to represent Guzzisti Arabia in an unmissable and intense event and a ride across three uniquely scenic regions on my Moto Guzzi Stelvio NTX.   Despite it being in the middle of spring; the weather was quite cold, nearing zero...

Bikers Café will be celebrating its sixth year on the 6th of May and this year’s celebration will be even better and bigger than those in past years. Bikers Café; was founded by Khalid Bin Hadher; a motorcycle and automobile enthusiast. His aim was to create a gathering spot for bikers of the UAE. A space created for bikers by...

Any Cafe Racer rider will insist that there is no specific “right” way to build a cafe bike. Your bike is a reflection of who you are and your own personal styling. You can build it however you want. With this in in mind, functionality, style and innovation are essential. The way you style your build can make a...

To be honest, I don’t quite recollect how I came about discovering Claudia’s work but the thing that caught my attention was the use of watercolour. I’m not an art collector, neither can I tell the difference between a ten dollar painting and a million dollar painting but one thing is for certain, I do know a good painting...

The term ‘Cafe Racer’ seems to be increasingly prevalent over the last few years. You hear it at your local biker hang-out, coffee shops, garages and even from shots of Beckham for H&M. There is a generic description to these bikes, but in my eyes everyone sees them a little different. The dictionary definition is: A lightweight, lightly powered motorcycle optimized...

The days of men charging forward on battlefields and attacking their enemies on horseback are long gone. At the turn of the century, horses were replaced by modern machinery and motorcycles played a huge part in helping soldiers advance on the battlefields. Harley-Davidson has a long history of supporting the military, with both the products it has supplied and in...

How do you describe a man who is loved by so many? It’s tricky. It wont take you long to be mesmerised with Claude’s warm and welcoming personality. Those who know him have nothing but praises for him and there’s an admiration that hard to miss. It’s a biker-to-biker thing, which only bikers will understand. A legend in the Middle...

What is motorcycling? This is the million dollar question and there probably are as many answers to this as there are motorcyclists and mine is just one of them. Quite obviously any logical thinking person doesn’t need to use too much imagination or thought process to work out that motorcycling involves riding motorcycles. I think it's much more than simply...

Hello and welcome to my column and to the first edition of Bike Nation Magazine.The name GeeDad that's short for granddad. I was given that name by probably the only people on the planet entitled to and game enough to call me that. None other than my four beautiful grandchildren. That's right I'm a granddad and very proud of that...

At Bike Nation Magazine, we are always on the lookout for those who share a passion for custom built motorcycles. Our quest to find and showcase all the skilled motorcycle builders across the middle east led us to Mohammad Anwar Al Ameeri; AKA "Royal Builder". Al Ameeri started building bikes back in 2009 as a hobby and judging by his...

Harley-Davidson® Lebanon have just announced the first MENA regional challenge. And it's called the Riddle Hunt™. It is simply a day based on Riddles and challenges, mostly Full of Laughter. It's been locally perfected over 4 years. And now H.O.G.® Lebanon Chapter will absolutely guarantee that it is a day that participants will never forget. Due to difficult logistics of such an...

When it comes to Harley-Davidson, a lot of things never change. Maybe that’s a good thing, right? As a brand, Harley-Davidson represents a long-standing tradition and sells motorcycling nostalgia. The challenge it faces and one that it tackles beautifully well is that it balances those qualities with advancement and innovation. The Softail family of motorcycles is a result of...