BeMoto Blog Posts
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Multibike Garages: Alan Dowds
Alan 'Dowdsy' Dowds has been a bike journalist for 25 years, he gets to borrow the latest and greatest bikes from all the big manufacturers, but what bikes does he actually own in his multi-bike garage...
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Tomorrow's World: Exotic Bike Materials
In 2020 we’ve got supercharged engines, electric suspension, wheelie control, carbon wheels, aerodynamic wings and 220bhp litre-class road bikes! But if you’d showed me that list 20 years ago, I’d have been a teeny bit disappointed...
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New 2020 Motorcycle Helmet Safety Regulations
A bike helmet is the most important bit of safety kit a rider has – it’s also the only one which needs to be worn by law. And now, the organisation behind safety regulations for helmets is updating its rules to keep riders even safer...
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Arc Life: TIG Welding Our MT-10 Exhaust
Welding – dull industrial process or pure metal art? We have a look at the tech and science behind properly joining up bits of metal – and see how it’s applied to make an exhaust can for our Yamaha MT-10...
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Test Ride: MotoE Ego Corsa Electric Race Bike
MotoE has just finished its first season of racing as a MotoGP support series. Our man Alan Dowds got a spin on a MotoE Ego Corsa Electric Race Bike at Valencia – here’s what he reckoned…
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Bucket List Jump: The Cehegin Bomb Hole
On a trip to Spain, someone told Neville Bradshaw about someone jumping a pretty knarly bomb hole at Cehegin, but footage proved hard to find. This played on Neville’s mind; if someone else has done it that means it must be possible... right?
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UPDATED 2020 Motorcycle Race Calendars (Corona Virus)
UPDATED 21/03/2020 - Race calendars are up in the air as a result of the Corona Virus outbreak, however we have tried to keep up-to-date with the evolving situation for MotoGP, WSBK and BSB so here are the updated 2020 Race Calendars...
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Honda CR500 Supercross
Supercross is pretty much motocross on steroids; bigger jumps, tighter corners, huge whoops, insane stall walls, doubles, triples, etc. But it's the last place you'd normally see a mental CR500, until now...