So for a while now I get emails about people wanting organized group rides, usually I refer them to the BMW Motorcycle Club since they are a good group and take everyone under their wing. This time around I’m doing this a little differently, I’m usually only riding with a few friends in Kuwait. This time around its an open invitation to those who would like to ride, its just a simple outing for anyone who wants to try a group ride for once, I don’t think I will be doing this often since I usuall

Motorcycles at the 2009 Frankfurt Auto ShowBe the First to Comment!Post By: Dennis Chung on Monday September 28 2009 As BMW, Can-Am, Events, Harley-Davidson, Motorcycle News, SuzukiTwo weeks ago, I took a break from my regular duties gathering news for Motorcycle.com to fly to Germany to cover the 2009 Frankfurt Auto Show for our sister site AutoGuide.com.For two hectic days, AutoGuide editor Colum Wood and I scrambled across the massive 6.2 million square foot Messe Frankfurt trade fair compou

By Hussein HamidIt would seem that Malaysia is once again, in the words of our Prime Minister Najib, raising its “profile on the world stage” by having it’s own team in Formula One next year. The first thought that hit me was this – if BMW has decided to wind down its Formula One Team after just four seasons in order to focus the resources that had been expended on the company’s F1 program to the “development of new drive technologies and projects in the field of sustainability” why oh why must

The annual classic motorcycle auction in Birmingham, Alabama, often throws up something interesting. In 2006, it was a 1913 Flying Merkel that sold for a staggering $130,000. This year, one of the stars is likely to be the famed 1951 Vincent Black Shadow Chopper (above) from Redneck Engineering. There’s some tempting machinery amongst the 90 lots registered so far, including a 1938 BMW R51, and three crackers from 1949: a Douglas trials bike, a Vincent HRD Rapide (Series B) and a Harley-Da

BMW’s F 800 series has been getting a lot of attention since the launch of the original S variant in 2006. And right now, the flavor of the month in Europe is the 87 bhp F 800 R roadster, as ridden by stuntman Chris Pfeiffer . Off-road specialists Touratech have already given their take on it with the ScrambleR , and now the BMW tuner AC Schnitzer has released the Reloaded . Somewhat dubious cosmetic modifications—a belly pan and fairing—amplify the ‘streetfighter’ look, but the suspension wo