BeMoto Blog Posts

The 750cc Sportsbike can be traced back to 1969 when Honda introduced the CB750; it was a revolution, featuring an in-line four-cylinder four-stroke engine producing a claimed 67bhp and capable of hitting a top speed of around 120mph...

The first Suzuki Hayabusa hit 194mph; a good 10-15mph faster than its rival the Honda CBR 1100 Blackbird. Interestingly, the name Hayabusa is Japanese for ‘peregrine falcon’ a bird that preys on blackbirds!

In our dreams our garages are full-on WSB-spec palaces, with wall-to-wall Snap-On tools, and all the Motul products we can eat. But like most folk, we have a selection of 'must-have' little helper tools. Usually nothing fancy, but they get us out of a hole on a regular basis...

In 1977, aged 9, Simon got a lift on his brother’s Suzuki AP50. He wrote about it the next day at school and, somehow, it turned into a career...

With a magazine career spanning RiDE, Bike and Performance Bikes, Kar has not only designed some of the UK’s most popular bike magazines over the last 20 years but written for them too...

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...